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U.S.
Task force confronts at-risk pensions for 10 million workers
March 29, 2013The 2007-08 financial crisis, spurred by Wall Street's "casino capitalism," still threatens pension plans that affect 10 million workers.
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Labor
Wage gap widening, unionization declining worldwide
February 4, 2013Declining unionization and increasing globalization are two key factors that are widening wage gaps between the rich and everyone else.
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Labor
Single-payer health care advocates plan new campaign
January 31, 2013Some 200 union advocates of single-payer government-run national health care met in Chicago in mid-January to plan their next moves.
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Labor
AFT proposes setting higher standards for teacher training, entry into profession
December 10, 2012"Too many new teachers enter our schools feeling unprepared. We shouldn't tolerate that in a profession so important to our country's future."
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Labor
Over union objection, court rewards failed Hostess execs
December 3, 2012A federal bankruptcy judge awarded $1.75 million in bonus payments to the corporate executives who ran Hostess Brands into the ground.
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Labor
Utility workers: American Water in more hot water
December 12, 2011The same highly-profitable nationwide utility that is trying to drastically raise rates on its St. Louis customers is using workers from a non-union labor law-breaking company to try to replace its Utility Worker members.
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Labor
Service Employees back Obama
November 18, 2011The Service Employees became the third big union - and the second within Change To Win - to endorse Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election.
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Labor
AFL-CIO prez: Labor must reach out to survive
January 21, 2011DETROIT - Saying the labor movement has become too small and too inward-looking to defeat corporate power by itself, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told the Auto Workers legislative conference that unions must build wider coalitions to...
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