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Steelworkers push for jobs plank in Dem platform
August 9, 2012A program to revitalize U.S. manufacturing should be put into the Democratic Party platform this fall, two Steelworker activists told the party's platform committee.
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Today in history: UFCW formed
August 8, 2012UFCW union was formed when the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America merged with the Retail Clerks International Union.
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Today in labor and people’s history: “Rebel Girl” born
August 7, 2012Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, legendary union organizer and later a leader of the Communist Party USA, was born Aug. 7, 1890.
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Jobless rate virtually unchanged in July
August 6, 2012At July's rate, it would take more than eight years to get back to full employment.
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Today in labor and peoples history: Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Baltimore Bank Riot of 1835
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Today in labor history: Remembering Florence Reece
August 3, 2012Reece will be forever known for the song, "Which Side Are You On?" written in 1931 during the "Harlan County War" strike in which her husband, Sam Reece, was an organizer.
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Today in history: Uprising at Nazi death camp
August 2, 2012On this date in 1943, prisoners at the Treblinka extermination camp in German-occupied Poland rebelled against Nazi guards.
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