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    7 days that shook the Windy City: Chicago's teacher strike

    OCTOBER 2, 2012 2:33PM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: labor, economy, politics, unions, business, teachers, education, labor, unions, teachers, students chicago teachers union, ctu, students chicago teachers union, ctu

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    • 22 Ratings
    • 7231 Views
    • 60 Comments
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    Obama wants to "punish success?" Give me a break

    JULY 27, 2012 10:01AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: health care, gun control, abortion, plutocrats, free market, public sector unions, richard hofstadter, nlrb, epa, affordable care act, colonial america, gordon wood, conservative media, national reivew, fox news, keynesian stimulus, fiscal policy, exotic derivatives, libor, predatory corporate raiders, capitalism, corporate contributions, citizens united, supreme court, voter disenfranchisement, labor, manufacturing, oligarchy, george romney, tax returns, democracy, think progress, paranoid style, conspiracy theory, big government, income tax, punish success, president obama, elizabeth warren, scott brown, mitt romney, welfare queens, republican party, ronald reagan, economics, politics

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    • 9 Ratings
    • 7281 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Caterpillar Machinists Strike Enters Third Week

    MAY 16, 2012 5:54AM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: business, economy, labor, unions, caterpillar, strikes

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 2994 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Spring in Wisconsin: The things we do with friends

    MARCH 11, 2012 4:46PM

    By Karen McKim


    Topics: occupy, protests, middle class, labor, recalls, walker, wisconsin, politics

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    • 11 Ratings
    • 5294 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    The War Against Economic Recovery

    MARCH 12, 2012 12:15AM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: union busting, labor, unions, politics, economy

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    • 9 Ratings
    • 4556 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    America’s Ports: The Place Where Old Trucks Go To Die

    FEBRUARY 15, 2012 10:11AM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: ports, trucking, labor, unions, environment, economy

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    • 9 Ratings
    • 3385 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Alice Peurala: A Woman of Steel

    FEBRUARY 10, 2012 2:11PM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: feminism, economy, steelworkers fightback, united steel workers, steelworkers, alice peurala, labor, union

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    • 4 Ratings
    • 4857 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    GOP Economics: Failure Is Not An Option. It's a Requirement.

    JANUARY 16, 2012 5:13PM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: unions, labor, democrats, republicans, politics, economy, business

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 1444 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    The Creationists

    JANUARY 11, 2012 1:30PM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: cartoon saturday, cartoon saturdays, members of the grand old reptilian party (g.o.r.p.), jobs, evil toast, animals, business, comedy, environment, family, food/drink, little folk, labor, jobs, 1%, pre-history, comedy, cartoon

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 4633 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    A Better Class of Criminal

    JANUARY 6, 2012 8:21AM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: chicago, unions, labor, environment, economy, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 3499 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Occupy Woolworth's: A Labor Story from the Great Depression

    DECEMBER 14, 2011 4:24PM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: economy, labor, occupy, wall street, depression

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 3304 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    To Serve Our Citizens

    JUNE 3, 2011 7:19AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, jobs, labor, labor standards, education, child labor, labor protections, minimum wage, working conditions, offshoring, international, business, big business, multi-national business, multi-national, multi-nat, multinat, multinational, biden, joe biden, joseph biden, vp, vice president, vice president biden, cantor, eric cantor, rep cantor, representative cantor, representative eric cantor, employment, unemployment, service, serve, to serve man, to serve our citizens

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 1114 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Pregnancy—It Ain’t What it Used to Be

    MAY 14, 2011 11:19AM

    By joanpgage


    Topics: youtube, the bump, push present, prenatal pilates, pregnancy, open call, labor, fit pregnancy, doula, caesarean, breast pump, birth plan, babymoon, baby daddy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 2346 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    I have a Purple Heart in the War on the Middle Class

    MARCH 2, 2011 2:31PM

    By Dragonfly


    Topics: business, labor, collective bargaining, politics

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    • 12 Ratings
    • 2560 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    There Would Be No Middle Class Without Unions.

    FEBRUARY 24, 2011 7:18AM

    By Nerdyjen


    Topics: politics, business, american history, uaw, afl-cio, wisconsin, economy, middle class, unions, labor

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 2307 Views
    • 295 Comments
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    Define "prepared" ...

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 7:33AM

    By Tracy Brown


    Topics: open call, labor, doula, preparation, birth

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2578 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Strikes, Solidarity and Sandwiches

    SEPTEMBER 6, 2010 9:13AM

    By Theresa Rice


    Topics: food/drink, louisiana, history, labor, new orleans, roast beef, sandwich, po-boy, poor boy, po'boy, skc labor day, katrina, god's katrina kitchen, volunteer

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1326 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Jerusalem Burns And Klansmen In Tel Aviv

    JULY 17, 2009 4:00PM

    By RickyB


    Topics: likud, politics, stranger than fiction, ku klux klan, riots, batshit jehovaism, ultra orthodox, israel beyteinu, foreign news, shas, labor, kadima, news, middle east, big story, weekend holyland update, israel

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1862 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Lots of jobs? It's not a bad thing

    JULY 6, 2009 12:57AM

    By Mark Pritchard


    Topics: work, careers, labor

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 2762 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Israel's Navy Commander Caught in Strip Club

    MARCH 5, 2009 8:33AM

    By RickyB


    Topics: politics, labor, likud, kadima, shas, how lame is that, conduct unbecoming, strip club, strippers, navy, military, israel beyteinu, elections, foreign news, news, middle east, big story, weekend holyland update, israel

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