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What legislative goal might inspire all workers—union and non-union alike? Due process rights at work could be the answer. The United States is alone among industrialized countries in allowing at-will employees (i.e. most of the 88.7 % without a union contract) to be terminated for arbitrary reasons. As a result of past labor movement lobbying, Germany, France, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and South Africa all require employers to demonstrate they have “just cause”

Unemployment, Climate Change, Public Education, Minimum Wage and More

Bahraini police fired tear gas and sound bombs to disperse hundreds of youth protesting in several Shiite villages over Saudi-backed deployment that has lasted three years since uprising.

"Both have two central elements in common. They criticize public education in their countries, and they're financed and backed by important people in the business world."

"We want to guarantee the access of all families to the benefits of social programs from the federal executive.”

"God don't like ugly and the devil is a liar."