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Whether it was Dr. Martin Luther King or Jesse Jackson, history has highlighted the contributions of men during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. But women played a prominent role as well, including members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC. Four of them shared their historical experiences with labor leaders at the 2013 AFL-CIO
Read moreMAPP, or rather the Machinist Partnership Program, is charting a new course in Kansas. The brainchild of District 70 in Wichita, this discount program is making big strides to save money for nearly 13,000 machinists that call this community home.
Read moreView highlights from President Barack Obama’s Inaugural speech.
Read moreStates are wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money by luring jobs from each other, according to a study by the watchdog group Good Jobs First. The study outlines how companies are committing interstate job fraud with economic development subsidies, by moving existing jobs from one state to another, rather than creating new jobs. It’s
Read moreA war with working-class people has been waged at the local government level in Philadelphia. Labor leaders there say the mayor has cut good city jobs, curtailed contract talks with unions and closed schools, all the while supporting tax breaks for wealthy residents.
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