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EPI analyst: High court deadlock on immigration hurts all workers’ rights
June 29, 2016Exploitative employers use the threat of hiring undocumented adults to force other workers to take lower wages and benefits.
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Auto Workers vs. Volkswagen in Chattanooga: The saga continues
June 28, 2016The long-running saga revolving around the Auto Workers campaign to organize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., continues.
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Chicagoans win paid sick leave law
June 23, 2016A coalition of workers' rights and progressive groups pushed the ordinance through the council, over the usual business opposition.
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Week-long Minnesota nurses strike part of forced walkout in three states
June 22, 2016Hospital chains demand that its nurses virtually give up their health insurance; patient safety and quality of patient care are also top issues.
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Hospital workers in Vancouver, Wash. unionize to fight for their patients
June 22, 2016Even the doctors are part of the bargaining unit at this small hospital in the Pacific Northwest.
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CWA’s Larson warns of post-election push for Trans-Pacific Pact
June 16, 2016CWA's legislative director is urging his union's activists - and other unionists - to keep the pressure on lawmakers to vote against the TPP.
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Union leaders express outrage at Orlando massacre, sympathy for victims and families
June 15, 2016"I don't know where to begin. Fifty dead, many more wounded, in the worst mass shooting in American history. I am sick and heartbroken."
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Wage theft, labor law-breaking force L.A. port truckers into another strike
June 8, 2016Can you imagine working five weeks in a row and earning nothing?
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