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Did Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) illegally interfere with the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) attempt to organize workers at the Volkswagen (VW) plant in Chattanooga, TN? Democrats in the U.S. House want to know. Reps. George Miller (D-CA) and John Tierney (D-MA) have opened an investigation into whether the
Read moreMartimiano, third from right, distributes T-shirts that read, translated into English, “Stop sexism, racism and homophobia.” In São José dos Campos, about an hour’s drive from the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo, working at Embraer is like wearing a badge of honor. People there are proud of the homegrown aerospace manufacturer; now the world’s No.
Read moreGuide Dogs of America breaks ground on a new 15,900-square-foot education and outreach center in Southern California that will help expand community outreach and build upon GDA services for the blind and visually-impaired. Guide Dogs of America (GDA) has broken ground on a new 15,900-square-foot education and outreach center in Southern California. The expansion of
Read moreHouse Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) refuses to take up a Senate bill aimed at extending federal unemployment insurance benefits for the jobless. Nearly 2.8 million Americans have lost their economic lifeline since House Republican leaders forced unemployment insurance benefits to expire last December. The Senate voted 59 to 38 to extend those benefits – with
Read moreAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka highlighted the destruction the Trans-Pacific Partnership would cause the middle class in a speech at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. Twenty years after the ratification of NAFTA, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other worker advocates are speaking out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), another free-trade deal that promises
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