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Labor
“Horton” Hears a Stampeding Judicial Amendment
Compulsory arbitration agreements force employees to give up their legal right to join a class action lawsuit in order to keep their job.
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Secrets Result in Abuse of Power: The New Era Is Becoming One of Transparency
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers: Transparency is the cure for a long off-kilter US foreign policy.
Economic Update: Economics and Health
Update on intern's death in London, austerity and suicide, over-prescribing anti-depressants, cutting health benefits, and laying off mortgage workers at Wells Fargo.
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The AFL-CIO’s New Strategy: Inspiration or Hype?
After years of embarrassing denial, the AFL-CIO recently took its first baby step in addressing the crisis that has engulfed organized labor: it recognized there was a problem. In the …
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Employers on the Public’s Dime: The Judicial Amendment that Put Money in the Company’s Pocket
One NLRA amendment cuts back pay by requiring that remedies not be punitive to the law violator.
Mubarak Eyes Release as Egyptian Military Continues to Kill Protestors
Little has changed since 2011 revolution as police and military continue to massacre nonviolent opposition.
Editor of The Progressive Arrested Covering Solidarity Singers’ Protest of Wisconsin Gov. Walker
More than 200 people have been arrested at
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Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than You Think
As global warming picks up, scientists and researchers are finally coming to grips with just how serious that problem is, and how quickly weu2019re running out of time to …
Abracadabra, You’re a Part-Timer: How Corporate America Used the Great Recession to Turn Good Jobs Into Bad Ones
demystify the sleight-of-hand by which good jobs were transformed into bad jobs, full-time workers with benefits into freelancers with nothing, during the dark days of the Great Recession.
NSA Violated Surveillance Rules Thousands of Times, Intercepted All 202 Area Code Calls by Accident
Amy interviews Alex Abdo of the American Civil Liberties Union on the recent allegations from the Washington Post that the NSA did in fact violate privacy laws.