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Unions
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Help Obama Find His Shoes
Progressives need to pressure Obama to stick up for workers as promised.
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Hostess Failure Not Union’s Fault
If Hostess can get away with driving down wages and cutting benefits, what will happen to your wages and benefits?
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Walmart Workers: Workload, Retaliation Increase in Illinois Warehouse as Black Friday Looms
More employees are fired amid union organizing activities.
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Anatomy of the Walmart Strike: Walking Out, One Day at a Time
An inside account of a day in the life of the Walmart strike.
Manufacturing Corporate-Friendly State Legislation
Truthout contributor Steve Horn explains to RNN that ALEC is only one of several right-wing organizations that write big-business-friendly model laws for state legislatures across the country.
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Bain-Owned Sensata Illegally Threatens Workers for Organizing
Bain-owned Sensata threatened to retaliate and immediately close their Freeport, Ill plant if workers there don't stop protesting the outsourcing of their jobs to China.
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The Progressive Struggle to Save Capitalism
Proponents of simply reforming the economic system that has failed so many so miserably might as well be saying, Thank you sir, may I have another?
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Henry A. Giroux: Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society?
Hedge fund managers now sit on school boards across the country doing everything in their power to eliminate public schools and punish unionized teachers who do not support charter …
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On Both Sides of the Border, Teachers Fight Corporatization
In both Mexico and the United States, schools are an ideological battleground.
Real Steel: Striking a Chord for the Lost American Dream
Striking steelworkers lament the lost golden era of industry and anxiously confront a future marked by perpetual decline.