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The United Steelworkers (USW) announced today that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract with Shell Oil as a pattern agreement for the rest of the industry.

A new AFL-CIO Commission on Racial and Economic Justice will attempt to create a "safe, structured and constructive opportunity for local union leaders to discuss issues pertaining to the persistence of racial injustice today in the workforce and in their communities, and to ensure that the voices of all working people in the labor movement are heard."

Dennis Boyer, a retired AFSCME staff member, believes the Wisconsin unions should have been more aggressive in their fightback against Walker. Included in his recommendations for the struggle going forward is the consideration of a general strike.

Dennis Boyer, a retired AFSCME staff member, believes that the unions in Wisconsin need to be much more aggressive in their fightback. This should include consideration of the use of a general strike.

Democrats assert that Gov. Scott Walker’s real motivation for signing the right-to-work legislation is more about politics than job creation: breaking a dwindling union movement in Wisconsin and boosting his standing as the conservative choice for the Republican presidential nomination next year.

Over the past decade, state after state has been dismantling America's workers' comp system with disastrous consequences for many of the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer serious injuries at work each year, a ProPublica and NPR investigation has found. The cutbacks have been so drastic in some places that they virtually guarantee injured workers will plummet into poverty. Workers often battle insurance companies for years to get the surgeries, prescriptions and

PM Narendra Modi wants to boost manufacturing in his country, but it's cheaper and easier to import than make in India.

PM Narendra Modi wants to boost manufacturing in his country, but it's cheaper and easier to import than make in India.

PM Narendra Modi wants to boost manufacturing in his country, but it's cheaper and easier to import than make in India.

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