Mark Gruenberg
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U.S.
Unions hail NLRB official’s ruling that college athletes can unionize
March 28, 2014It would be a landmark victory for college athletes, whose scholarships are now awarded at the whim of their institutions and who have little or no protection against on-the-job injuries.
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Labor
Postal unions sign cooperation pact, prepare for joint April 24 actions
March 28, 2014The target will be schemes to cut postal services, end Saturday pickup and delivery, and fire or let go by attrition hundreds of thousands of workers.
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Panel: Immigrants’ advocates should step up efforts in the states
March 27, 2014Immigrants' advocates should step up efforts in the states, regardless of the fate of comprehensive immigration reform in D.C., a panel discussing the issue says.
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Labor
Trumka says he’ll back Obama on a new pro-worker trade policy
March 25, 2014The death of fast-track, Obama told the Center for American Progress, gives him the opportunity to construct a new trade policy to benefit workers in the U.S. and worldwide, that guarantees labor rights, that protects "buy...
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Labor
Regulatory oversight weak in aftermath of Texas City oil plant blast
March 21, 2014But OSHA is so short-staffed, say the Steel Workers who represent the workers at Texas City that an average U.S. refinery would get a PSM inspection once every 120 years.
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Nationwide spring bus tours to culminate in marches on Washington
March 21, 2014The campaigns, for legalizing undocumented people and for raising the minimum wage, show labor's determination to get out in the streets and make unionists' voices heard.
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Labor
Lawmakers unveil bill to hold employers responsible for supervisors’ sexual harassment
March 20, 2014A coalition of congressional Democrats introduced legislation to hold employers responsible for their lower-level supervisors' sexual harassment of workers.
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Labor
The BP Texas City oil plant blast: What’s changed and what hasn’t
March 20, 2014Nine years ago, on March 23, 2005, the British Petroleum oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, an hour south of Houston, in so many words, blew up.
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