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"Workers expressed concerns about the building and nothing was done," Liana Foxvog, of the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF), told IBTimes UK.

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On Wednesday, workers in at least 100 Walmart stores plan to confront local managers with demands for change in the retail giant’s scheduling system.

On Wednesday, workers in at least 100 Walmart stores plan to confront local managers with demands for change in the retail giant’s scheduling system.

Brooklyn native opened Woodstock in 1969.

Most of the president's [President Obama's] words and many of his actions and policies are interpreted through the prism of race.

In a tit-for-tat trade battle between the US and India over solar power, what is certain is that the environment will be the loser.

The capture of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev presents an opportunity to show that fighting terrorism doesn't require abandoning the Constitution.

Book Review - In Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, by Ira Katznelson. Was the mid-century dominance of southern Democrats essential to the defeat of Hitler and the triumph of American democracy?

Washington's clumsy efforts to de-legitimise Venezuela's election mark a escalation of its push for regime change.