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Teachers Say 17 Firings at Urban Prep Charter Schools Were Retaliation for Unionization
The battle over unionization at one of Chicago's most celebrated charters will be key to the future of organizing charter schools in the future.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Legal Case Threatens Unions’ Fair Share Fees, and More
Republicans just got one step closer to turning our nation into a right to work for LESS paradise.
A Bernie Sanders Filibuster Could Help Stop the “Fast Track” to Greater Inequality
Sen. Bernie Sanders should put his “Bat Signal” in the sky and filibuster the fast-track TPP vote for as long as he can.
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Why Did The New York Times Ask Everybody but Grad Students About Grad Student Unions?
Graduate unionization is not a passing fad, but a movement over half-a-century old.
NAACP Accuses Baltimore Police Union of Intimidation
A pointed letter to FOP president says the union's criticism is widening the racial divide.
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Vermont Activists Battle Democratic Governor for Single-Payer Health Care
Growing estrangement of labor from Democrats could lead to Shumlin's replacement.
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New York Airport Workers Strike, Telling Management “Poverty Wages Don’t Fly“
Meet some of the New York City airport workers, and their union allies, calling for higher wages and union representation.
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Getting Better Organized: San Francisco’s Fight for $15 and a Union
The new movements today have a recognized leadership, a national and even international coordinated organizing strategy and a clear and focused series of demands.
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The New Union Plan to Protect Immigrant Members From Deportation
United Food and Commercial Workers is serving its members in a new way: helping immigrants prepare to get legal authorization to work.
Fight for $15: Tens of Thousands Rally as Labor and Civil Rights Movements Join Forces
More than 60,000 workers walked off the job in more than 200 cities.