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Prospects good for communists, Social Democrats in Czech snap election 27 Aug 2013 | 12:25 am
On August 20, the government of the Czech Republic's caretaker Prime Minister, Jiri Rusnok, fell when a majority of the lower house of Parliament voted to dissolve itself. This means that there will ...
President Obama rolls out higher education plan 27 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
President Obama debuted his new proposal for curbing costs of higher education Aug. 22, expanding on the presentation of his plan's details in a town hall the following day at Lackawana College in Scr...
Today in labor history: Women win right to vote, Women’s Equality Day declared 26 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm
On Aug. 26, 1920, women finally won the right to vote when the necessary number of states ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. To commemorate that important event and the ongoing struggle ...
Oakland Airport concession workers win some, and keep up the fight 26 Aug 2013 | 11:53 pm
OAKLAND, Calif. - Dozens of workers at Oakland Airport concessions and their supporters walked the picket line Aug. 23 outside Oakland Airport's Terminal 2 to celebrate the return to work of co-worker...
What do casinos and martial arts have in common? 26 Aug 2013 | 09:22 pm
In the mixed martial arts world, the last few weeks were spent in anticipation of UFC Fight Night 26: Shogun vs Sonnen on the debuting FOX Sports 1 network. However, the battles wouldn't just be confi...
GOP judge launches yet another assault on the NLRB 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
TACOMA, Wash. - Yet another Republican-named federal judge has taken another hack at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), ruling that President Obama illegally named its top enforcement officer,...
Bayard Rustin LGBT coalition highlights civil rights leader’s role 26 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco chapter of the Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition rallied in front of City Hall here on Saturday to highlight the contributions of Rustin, an often-overlooked figure of the...
Fast food and retail workers to walk out nationwide Aug. 29 26 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
If you go to your local McDonald's, or Wendy's, or KFC or Burger King on August 29, you may find something unusual: A picket line. And as one New York Times food columnist wrote last month, "If you wa...
Union members swell the ranks of marchers in D.C. 26 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
WASHINGTON - Raymin Diaz wants to "break this counterrevolution" that takes away workers' rights. Bob King wants to "honor the same principles" Dr. Martin Luther King stood for, while "fighting suppre...
Marchers pack capital for 50th Anniversary March on Washington 26 Aug 2013 | 04:02 am
WASHINGTON - "I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the right to vote and I'm not going to stand by and allow the Supreme Court to take the right to vote away from us." With tho...
