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Labor
Study: 57 percent of poultry workers suffer ergonomic ills
April 21, 2014NIOSH found what UFCW called "a drastic level of injury" to workers even at the present speeds.
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Environment
ATU, Sierra Cub to band together in pro-mass transit campaign
April 17, 2014Calling themselves "natural partners," the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Sierra Club are banding together in a nationwide campaign.
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U.S.
Minimum wage hike drive moves into high gear
April 11, 2014The labor-backed campaign to raise the minimum wage resumed as the "Raise The Wage" bus headed for more states, while Maryland became the second state to enact a multi-year hike of the wage to $10.10 an...
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Labor
FedEx loses another driver misclassification case, in Maine
March 27, 2014A federal judge in Portland approved a settlement saying FedEx Ground misclassified 141 drivers. The drivers will net $3.9 million in back pay and damages.
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Labor
Right wing legal schemes may enmesh UAW Volkswagen rerun vote case
March 14, 2014The tangle over UAW's loss at Chattanooga is important to workers nationwide because this union recognition election saw massive anti-union intervention by outside-funded right wing groups.
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Labor
Official February unemployment at 6.7 percent
March 10, 2014U.S. Unemployment rose by 0.1 percent in February, to 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
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Labor
AFT exposes for-profit charter school industry
March 6, 2014AFT is launching a campaign to expose the for-profit charter school industry as more interested in profits for its CEOs and stockholders than it is in teaching kids.
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Labor
Navy hired company blocking union organizing rights
March 3, 2014An Australian ship building company in Mobile, Ala., hired by the Navy is forcing workers to follow bad construction plans and, at the same time, is blocking their effort to unionize.
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