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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lonestar is the latest move in a long tradition of border militarization.

The pending rulemakings involve legal questions that are frequently tested in Dept. of Labor investigations and in class actions pitting plaintiff’s attorneys and unions against management: contractor status, joint employment and tipped wages.

Workers at the coffee chain are resisting an aggressive union-busting campaign in their fight to organize.

Robbing the rest of us blind, wealthy Americans benefit from a wide array of tax breaks and government subsidies that are hidden behind the constant Republican blather about entitlements for the poor.

As your mayor, I promise to bring my life experiences and passion to make this city better for everyone.

The media are a culture war battlefield. Domestic and foreign policy too

A play about a young woman growing up in New York City where her father was a live-in custodian at the St. Agnes Branch Library Library on Amsterdam Avenue between 80 and 81st Street. She describes what a wonderful life she had living in a library and how much the union, District Council 37, AFSCME meant to her and her family. "Feeding the Dragon" has opened at the Pittsburgh City Theatre in Pennsylvania.

I’m currently housed in F-house at the Stateville CC. F-house is the last functioning “round” house in America. The round house is just that, a circular building with 4 levels of cells around the outer ring with a central tower, allowing, by the use of backlighting, a single observer to watch over an entire cell house. This is a great source of pride for Stateville officials, not so much for those of us housed within.

The workers’ strike marks the first time they have walked off the job during the academic year, according to Brian Lang, president of UNITE HERE Local 26, the Boston-based labor union that represents HUDS. The strike is the first walk out Harvard has seen since 1983.

“There is no doubt in my mind that we need to continue speaking up, organizing and participating in civil disobedience. And when there is a backlash against our work, our tactics, our community members, we have come together to defend them. It’s part of our responsibility to our community and to future generations” – Nadia Sol Ireri Unzueta