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Press Associates Union News Service provides national coverage of news affecting workers, including activism, politics, economics, legislation in Congress and actions by the White House, federal agencies and the courts that affect working people. Mark Gruenberg is Editor in chief and owner of Press Associates Union News Service, Washington, D.C.

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Labor

Fire Fighter leader blasts hypocritical politicians
August 28, 2013 By PAI
The nation's politicians, from the federal government on down to city halls, are hypocritical in praising Fire Fighters and other first responders, then cutting public safety budgets.
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Labor

GOP judge launches yet another assault on the NLRB
August 26, 2013 By PAI
A Republican-named federal judge took another hack at the NLRB, ruling that President Obama illegally named its top enforcement officer.
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Labor

NLRB judge: Firm’s ‘arbitration agreement’ with workers can’t ban appeals to board
August 22, 2013 By PAI
The ban violates the worker's labor law rights, ALJ Melissa Olivero ruled on August 14 in a case involving Fort Lauderdale-based Everglades University.
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World

Egyptian unions in throes of democracy fight
August 16, 2013 By PAI
The Egyptian army arrested and temporarily detained two Egyptian steel union leaders in Suez, Egypt, two days before its violent crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, seven Egyptian unions and a human rights...
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Labor

Writers Guild to PBS: Air film on Koch brothers
August 16, 2013 By PAI
The Writers Guild of America-East is demanding that a Public Broadcasting System flagship station, WNET 13 in New York, air the documentary about the far-right oil tycoons, the Koch brothers.
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U.S.

Utility workers say job-killing FirstEnergy could cause another big blackout
August 16, 2013 By PAI
The corporation that caused the blackout of 2003, FirstEnergy, is about to shut two power plants in western Pennsylvania, destroying hundreds of jobs and putting the region's power grid at risk, according to the Utility Workers...
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World

Puerto Rican phone workers join forces with OPEIU
August 16, 2013 By PAI
SAN JUAN, P.R. (PAI)-Members of a union representing 2,000 Puerto Rican telephone workers voted by a 10-1 margin to merge into the Office and Professional Employees (OPEIU), the two unions announced on August 14.
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Labor

Union complaint leads to OSHA move against Republic Steel
August 15, 2013 By PAI
A Steelworkers complaint led the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to swoop down, earlier this year, on the Republic Steel plant in Canton, Ohio.
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