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The media seems to forget about New Orleans and any place that the middle class can't easily relate to

The soiled hands of this incident are many. They did not start or stop with Rios Montt.

President Karen Lewis and the Caucus of Rank and file Educators (CORE successfully defeated Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his corporate allies. They deserve support in the current union election

Disney Trips Up on <arketing; Anne Frank Too Sexually Explicit; Opposition Growing to Zuckerberg’s New PAC; Lamar Smith Wants to Change the Rules at NSF; Cleveland Kidnapping Rescue Nothing to Laugh at.

In California, advocates, workers and politicians are trying to pass into law a bill that protects the rights of domestic workers.

Workers at two German Amazon locations have walked out in support of higher wages and to press their right to collective bargaining. The all-day stoppage is set to disrupt services in Amazon's second biggest market.

Faced with the very real threat of extinction, unions have largely put collective bargaining on the back burner, and instead must try to remind American workers of the basic concept of worker solidarity. “We start from the point of view that, because so few people are in unions these days, very few people have personal experience with collective power,” explains Karen Nussbaum, the executive director of Working America.

Poorer nations lose three times more money to havens a year than they get in aid. The G8 has the chance to change this.