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Karen Nussbaum: Working America WORKS!
The US's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, pledged at its '13 convention to work more closely with community-based affiliates & its grassroots organizing arm, Working America.
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Longshore Union Got a Raw Deal from the AFL-CIO
On August 29, 2013, the 60,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced it was leaving the 13-million member AFL-CIO.
Inequality for All: Robert Reich Warns Record Income Gap Is Undermining Our Democracy
Robert Reich's new film takes a look at how inequality is a disease that is plaguing the entire country.
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Yesterday’s Internment Camp – Today’s Labor Camp
Laborers live near a WWII Japanese Internment camp and in not much different conditions while Congress debates migrant worker bills.
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Thank You, Anarchy: Notes From the Occupy Apocalypse
Jonah Raskin reviews Nathan Schneider's book ‘Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.’
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The Old Extreme GOP vs. the New Extreme GOP: Whoever Wins, We Lose
The fact that their enemies are extreme doesn't mean that Boehner and Cantor aren't.
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AFL-CIO to Fight “Trade” Deals Like TPP
The AFL-CIO convention passed a resolution vowing to fight any trade agreement that promotes the rise in corporate power at the expense of working people.
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Labor Leaders, Obamacare and the Fate of the Unions
Obamacare is perhaps the most blatant example of the complete incompetency of many US labor leaders, who've tied the fate of organized labor to the Democratic Party, with disastrous …
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Government Standards Agency “Strongly” Suggests Dropping its Own Encryption Standard
Following revelations about the NSAu2019s covert influence on computer security standards, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, announced earlier this week it is revisiting some of …
Rev. James Lawson: Our Country is Based on Plantation Capitalism
Civil Rights veteran, Rev. James Lawson describes what he believes labor is up against: