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Labor Day
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Importance of Labor Unions and Meaning Behind Labor Day, and More
Celebrating Labor Day should mean commemorating the key role unions played in winning benefits we take for granted now; and more.
Labor Day Reality for Humanity on the Gallows – or Shall We Imagine Differently?
The US holiday Labor Day is a joke. Again there will be no visible strikes and no muscle-flexing by the labor movement.
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Let’s Give Workers Something to Cheer About
Labor Day should be a day on, not a day off, in the effort to reclaim the American dream for working people.
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Labor Day Victories to Celebrate
It would be easy to go on about how bad things are for labor rights, but it is worth highlighting a couple of good news items against the current …
Making a Living on a Living Planet
On Labor Day 1940, American workers faced the aftermath of the Great Depression, with mass unemployment persisting and a divided labor movement facing a renewed counterattack from corporate America.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Are Republicans Trying to Redefine Labor Day?
The Democratic National Convention kicks off this week in Charlotte, North Carolina, Hacktivists working within the group
Help Workers Connect the Dots to This Larger System of Oppression
You could choke on the irony in Charlotte this Labor Day. The United States' faux labor holiday falls on day one of the Democratic National Convention.
Economic Update: “Labor’s Day, Labor’s Condition”
Updates on corporations paying CEOs more than they pay in taxes; causes of coming food price spike; and strikes at Caterpillar in Illinois and Lonmin platinum mine in South …