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Pennsylvania unions cheer blocking of new voter ID law
January 27, 2014The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO is cheering a judge's ruling bouncing the state's GOP-passed "voter ID" law, but the story isn't over yet.
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Reproductive clinic law could impact organizers, workers rights
January 21, 2014The case involves whether the 35-foot limit violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and its free speech guarantees.
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Unions battle “Scrooge” Congress on transportation needs
January 2, 2014Federal transportation funding is so skimpy that Congress acts like Scrooge when it comes to helping pay for the nation's roads, subways, buses and other transportation.
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Locked-out musicians “devastated” by director’s resignation
October 4, 2013MINNEAPOLIS (PAI) -- Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra, locked out of their jobs for the past year, were devastated by the Oct. 1 resignation of its music director, Osmo Vänskä, who quit when management refused to...
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Survey: Majority backs public schools over alternatives
July 29, 2013The U.S. public still strongly supports public schools and wants to improve them - and is willing to pay to do so.
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Pennsylvania unions launch massive campaign against voter ID law
July 18, 2013The Pa. AFL-CIO is pushing a huge online petition demanding the GOP-run state legislature repeal the state's "voter ID" law.
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British postal unions slam privatization plan
July 16, 2013There's a big bus trundling around London this week, manned by British postal workers - and they're not doing it for fun or to show sights to tourists
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Pennsylvania American Water slapped by NLRB
July 16, 2013Pennsylvania American Water, subsidiary of one of the nation's richest utilities, apparently isn't content with letting its executives feed at the ratepayers' trough, the Utility Workers note.
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