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Environment
Series exposing conspiracy to deny black lung benefits wins award
August 13, 2014A coal industry conspiracy to deny black lung benefits to tens of thousands of coal miners has won the Heywood Broun Award from The Newspaper Guild.
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Labor
NLRB official: Mercedes breaks labor law at Alabama auto plant
August 8, 2014The UAW effort in Alabama is part of the union's new focus on organizing autoworkers at foreign "transplant" plants in the South.
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Labor
July unemployment rate doesn’t reflect truth about joblessness
August 4, 2014While 131,000 people found jobs last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report, the number of unemployed people rose by 197,000 to 9.67 million.
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Labor
New contract to give low-paid Johns Hopkins workers hefty raises
July 11, 2014"This is an important victory for patients and workers all across Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Hospital sets the standard for healthcare and that standard has just been raised."
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U.S.
NEA’s Eskelsen-García promises tougher line on public school critics
July 10, 2014"No commercial, mass-produced, industrial-strength standardized factory test should ever be used as the determining factor for any student or adult."
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Labor
Trumka: SCOTUS rulings hurt all workers, union and non-union
July 2, 2014AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who has a law degree, issued a statement on Harris vs. Quinn, the fee-payers/free riders case.
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Labor
House panel’s GOP majority bashes NLRB – again
June 30, 2014For the 16th time in the sharply partisan 113th Congress, the radical right GOP majority on the House Education and the Workforce Committee bashed the NLRB.
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Labor
West Coast dock workers battling push to gut ILWU
June 26, 2014With their six-year contract about to expire, talks being held between the ILWU and the managers of Pacific coastal ports are going down to the wire.
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