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Five Signs 2013 Could Be a Great Year for Labor Organizing
Could 2013 be the year in which the U.S. becomes union strong again?
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An Appreciated, and Rare, Reversal of Economic Doctrine
Why do American businesses not feel that itu2019s worth their while to pay enough to attract the workers they say they need?
Zero Dark Thirty Won’t Settle the Torture Question or Purge Torture From the American System
If you look backward you see a nightmare. If you look forward you become the nightmare.
Economic Update: Conditions of the Working Class
Updates on Newtown, CT. school shooting, global warming and the CIA, Hostess abuses workers' pensions, and growing gap between CEOs' and workers' pay.
Thom Hartmann on the News: Michigan May Have Passed an Even More Undemocratic Law Than Right-to-Work
In this week's On the News Segment: For the second time in a week, a mass shooting has rocked the nation; right-to-work may not be the most undemocratic law …
Michigan Republicans Deny Police Officers and Firefighters the Right to Work
There is no issue of rights involved in this dispute.
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Low-Wage Workers’ Wildcat Winter Spreads to Chicago
The newly-minted union in Chicago launched the Fight for 15 campaign to raise the standard of living for the more than 18,000 workers.
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A Constitutional Case Against Felony Disenfranchisement Laws
With over 350,000 Virginians disenfranchised due to felonies, most of them African-Americans, this case is one worth following.
Michigan Anti-Union Law Drafted by ALEC
Mary Bottari: At the last minute, Michigan governor uses right-wing group's draft of legislation that gives workers the “right” to work without collective bargaining.
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Rice Drops Bid for Secretary of State, Citing Opposition
Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, has withdrawn her name from consideration for secretary of state, in the face of relentless opposition from Republicans.