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“Our forefathers fought for this pension plan. They fought for our insurance. They fought for our wages. Everything we have today is because of them,” says District 776 member Pauline Ramos in ‘Ain’t No Way,’ a new IAM video about the strike at Lockheed Martin. “I’ll be damned if I’m going to tell them that
Read moreIf the recent attempt to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act was a reminder that eternal vigilance is indeed the price of liberty, then the $2 billion trading loss by J.P Morgan is an equally painful reminder that we can ill afford to heed the calls for less regulation by the nation’s top bankers. JP
Read moreThe GOP campaign to roll back voting rights for minority voters reached a new low this past week with a proposal by Tea Party favorite Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) to cut off funds for enforcement of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The defunding proposal targeted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which
Read moreThe House-approved Ryan Budget aims to slash $33 billion in food stamp funding – at a time when Americans need them most. Food stamp usage has reached historic levels as more and more people find themselves without work, and, consequently, no means for feeding their family. One in every seven Americans now rely on the
Read moreIn an op-ed published on The Huffington Post, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka asks “Is Wal-Mart Too Big, Powerful, Influential to Obey the Law?,” following a New York Times article revealing “credible evidence that bribery played a persistent and significant role in Wal-Mart’s rapid growth in Mexico.” “Nothing like this has happened since the collapse of
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