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Union leaders say more than 3,000 members went on strike because the agreement offered by the aerospace manufacturing company doesn’t equally benefit all employees.

More than 100 Teamsters are on strike at the multinational Mauser Packaging Solutions plant in Chicago. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters extended picket lines to Los Angeles and Minnesota in June.

"It must be said," writes reviewer Finkel, "that this book is essential reading, but not pleasant for anyone."

He sees Dracula as fiction’s ultimate capitalist victimizer, exploiting the lifeforce of others for his own pleasure, whether financial or physical. But the vampire has been exploited by plenty of capitalists as well, especially those in the movies.

International visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June as workers face layoffs.

A new law signed by Gov. Dan McKee has made Rhode Island the first state to explicitly protect graduate student workers’ right to unionize if the National Labor Relations Board declines to do so.

Chick-fil-A buys its chicken from a company fined by the Department of Labor for employing 14-year-olds to eviscerate poultry at an Alabama packing plant. Children also operated fork lifts, worked on the kill floor, and worked overnight shifts.

The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike.

The latest episode brutally spoofed the Homeland Security boss.

My book is quenching the throats of those who are sick of seeing the wealthy and powerful credited with everything good in the county and the working families castigated for their backwardness by the privileged members of both political parties.