John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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Labor steps up efforts to prevent GOP takeover
October 19, 2010Pollsters are now beginning to predict a better election night for Democrats than they were expecting up until now, with the unprecedented campaign the labor movement has mounted getting much of the credit.
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Illinois celebrates Lilly Ledbetter Day: equal pay for equal work
October 15, 2010CHICAGO - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn honored Lilly Ledbetter Oct. 14 for her struggle to win equal pay for women.
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Glenn Beck gives $10,000 to Chamber of Commerce
October 15, 2010Worried that $400 billion in secret corporate slush funds is not enough to buy Republicans control of the Congress, Glenn Beck donated, on Oct.14, a check for $10,000 to the American Chamber of Commerce.
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Labor intensifies outreach to Y generation
October 15, 2010The AFL-CIO is stepping up a program it hopes will eventually bring the Y generation into the labor movement.
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Lou Dobbs joins immigration hypocrite list
October 13, 2010The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute recently found that Lou Dobbs, who fulminated nightly on CNN against "the illegal aliens" taking over the country, has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of...
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Wall Street Journal warns labor could stop GOP in its tracks
October 13, 2010Evidence that all the media hype about a coming GOP victory in the mid-term elections may be totally off base surfaced Oct. 12 in a warning to the ruling class from the Wall Street Journal.
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Anti-union groups use election to push far-right agenda
October 12, 2010The same far-right anti-union groups that blocked the Employee Free Choice Act and opposed hiking the minimum wage are pouring more than $400 million into the 2010 mid-term elections.
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95,000 more jobs are lost
October 11, 201095,000 jobs were lost in September because the private sector added only 64,000 jobs while government employment went down by 159,000.
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