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AT&T Workers Stay On The Job

Reuters | Posted 04.08.2012

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 40,000 employees at AT&T Inc will keep working under the terms of an expired labor contract while their union conti...

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AT&T Workers Could Strike Once Their Contracts Expire Tonight

AP | Posted 04.07.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — Union contracts for 40,000 AT&T workers expire at midnight, leaving them free to call a strike to pressure the company at the ne...

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Wave Of Protests Hits Greek Hospitals

AP | Posted 05.21.2012

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ATHENS, Greece — Greece is already managing to beat some of its deficit-reduction targets, as figures released Wednesday show that its central b...

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Professors Avoid Strike

Peak Johnson | Posted 05.14.2012

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Professors and union members at the Community College of Philadelphia have decided not to strike, but will organize a public campaign to convince the administration to drop their "take it or leave it" stance and continue normal negotiations.

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In All-India General Strike, Workers Go All Out Against Neoliberalism

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.09.2012

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India's economic ascent seems like it should be the envy of the world's richest nations. Except Indian workers just gave the boosters of global capitalism a few million second thoughts.

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Why I'm Hunger Striking at UVA

Joseph Williams | Posted 04.25.2012

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In failing to implement a living wage for its lowest paid employees, the University of Virginia has also failed to uphold the moral standards to which it holds its students.

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French Credit Rating

Jeff Danziger | Posted 03.16.2012

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Office Cleaners, Building Owners Get To Yes

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.31.2011

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New York office cleaners and building owners reached a tentative four-year labor agreement late Friday, averting a potential New Year's Day strike. ...

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New York Building Cleaner Strike Could Have National Implications

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.30.2011

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As the New Year's Eve contract deadline looms for office cleaners who attend to some of New York City's most iconic buildings and the companies that o...

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N.Y. Building Cleaners Poised to Strike

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: SEIU 32BJ, Strike, Pay, Low-Wage Workers, Empire State Building, Wages, Seiu, Rockefeller Center, Organized Labor, Time Warner Building, New York, Business News

Workers who clean more than 1,500 buildings in New York -- including iconic facilities such as the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and the T...

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[VIDEO] Why Are You Joining The Occupy Oakland General Strike?

Turnstyle | Posted 01.02.2012

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Originally published on turnstylenews.com/occupy, Turnstyle News' special coverage page of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Also in RSS form>> ...

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Live From Athens: Traveling Through Greece During The Strike

Josh Burstein | Posted 12.19.2011

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I did not take an impromptu trip to Greece to assume the role of embedded journalist. I just wanted to take my first real vacation and climb Mt. Olympus to high-five Zeus.

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Talks Between GM, Auto Workers Union Heat Up

Posted 11.08.2011

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(Bernie Woodall and Deepa Seetharaman) - Contract talks between General Motors Co and the United Auto Workers union have intensified and shifted t...

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Keeping Labor in Labor Day

Brad Lander | Posted 11.01.2011

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Labor Day is a time to be with family and enjoy the end of summer (and maybe spend time stuck in traffic). But I will be doing one more thing on Labor Day this year -- thinking about workers and the state of unions in our country.

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Labor Unions, Benefits Understood, Have Almost Never Been Less Popular

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.31.2011

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The vast majority of Americans say labor unions raise wages and better working conditions, a new survey finds. Yet despite those benefits, Americans h...

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California Grocery Workers Reject Contract Deal

AP | Posted 10.21.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Thousands of Southern California grocery workers have voted overwhelmingly to reject a health care proposal from major supermarket...

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Verizon Union Members Strike Outside Joe Biden's Hampton Estate

Patch | Matthew Margolis | Posted 10.10.2011

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More than a dozen local striking Verizon workers stationed themselves outside the Southampton estate where Vice President Joe Biden is vacationing in ...

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Workers Put Verizon On Hold: Portray Strike As Defense Of Middle Class Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.07.2011

NEW YORK -- Outside Verizon corporate headquarters in downtown Manhattan, a group of more than 40 union employees gathered wearing red shirts and plac...

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Sotheby's $3.4 Billion Record

Posted 10.04.2011

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Just weeks after auction house Christie's announced record profits for first half 2011, Sotheby's announced its own record of $3.4 billion in six mont...

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Concrete Workers Strike At World Trade Center

Posted 10.01.2011

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Hundreds of concrete workers walked off the job at the World Trade Center site Monday one month after their contract expired. While the strike aff...

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Macy's NYC Employees Could Strike For First Time In Nearly Forty Years

Posted 08.15.2011

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NEW YORK (Phil Wahba and Roy Strom) - Workers at four New York City area Macy's Inc stores, including its Herald Square flagship, could strike lat...

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When Unions are Strong, Americans Enjoy the Fruits of Their Labor

David Morris | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Strike, Wisconsin, Labor, Workers, Lepage, Governor Walker, Taft Hartley, Frances Perkins, Unions, Inequality, Working Class, Productivity, Politics News

n the last generation, US unions have shrunk in size and influence, largely as a result of a withering attack by corporations and Republicans.

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Brazil Unions Flex Muscles as Obama Afterglow Fades

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Neither foreign investment nor its own political class have narrowed the gap between haves and have nots that remains deeply embedded in the structure of Brazil´s society.

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Why We Strike

Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Union of Healthcare Workers, Strike, Nuhw, Nurses, Uaw, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, Strikes, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Unions, Labor Strikes, Unions, Politics News

If today's labor movement is going to reverse decades of decline, union leaders are going to need to forget the habits of the last 30 years and learn something new from the rank and file: You don't win a fight by not fighting.

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How Can We Win in Wisconsin?

Andy Thayer | Posted 05.25.2011

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A small group of us LGBT activists went to Madison today to join the tens of thousands of people from there and around the region standing up for unio...

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