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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Labor Day: President Obama goes to Milwaukee’s LaborFest
September 1, 2010MILWAUKEE (PAI)--The President of the United States - along with his Secretary of Labor and the president of the national AFL-CIO - will be special Labor Day guests at Milwaukee's LaborFest.
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