Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Mexican labor lawyer Susana Prieto Terrazas arrested, raising USMCA enforcement doubts
July 6, 2020Prieto Terrazas led protests for better pay and coronavirus safety measures at plants. At the behest of factory owners, prosecutors sent police to arrest her.
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Labor
BLS jobs report shows U.S. employment crash continues
July 2, 2020Donald Trump’s happy talk today notwithstanding, the nation’s current depression, the employment crash caused by closures forced by the coronavirus pandemic, continues.
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Labor
Farmworkers: Big California farm sickens workers, families with coronavirus
July 2, 2020Primex is only making a bad situation worse by bringing in replacement workers for its ill employees, from the outside and through labor contractors, a common tactic growers use to exploit workers in the nation’s farms...
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Labor
Teachers: High Court opens way for taxpayer dollars for religious schools
July 1, 2020The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision allowing Montanans tax credits to pay for tuition at private – read “religious” – schools will cut dollars available to public schools and kids.
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U.S.
Coronavirus comeback boomerangs into a disaster
July 1, 2020The coronavirus pandemic is roaring back with Dr. Fauci warning now that we may see 100,000 new COVID 19 cases per day.
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Labor
Panel on Black workers: Government action critical
June 30, 2020“If we don’t figure this out, lives could be at stake."
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U.S.
House OKs anti-redlining bill, 230-178
June 30, 2020GOP President Donald Trump’s regime wants to let banks redline communities of color. The Democratic-run U.S. House doesn’t.
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U.S.
Supreme Court tosses Louisiana anti-abortion law, drawing cheers
June 30, 2020Pro-choice groups warn, however, that the fight continues in the courts and requires dumping Trump in November.
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