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USA : Crisis at the NLRB

Source: Arkansas Blog
USA : $8000 A Week Scabs At Sutter Alta Bates Hospital As CNA NNU Nurses & Techs Strike For 9th Time

Source: LVP
Changing One Woman's Life in Oklahoma in Only Eight Hours

Dorothy was a longtime activist with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the Oklahoma State AFL-CIO. In the summer of 2012, she lost her only son and found that her home, which she bought for her retirement, was in serious need of repair. That's when her church, Journey Church, in Norman, Okla., and the state federation stepped in and did what they could to change her life.Check out this video to see what they did in only eight hours. 
USA : Act Now! Sign Petition to the CEOs of McDonald's, Domino's, Papa John's, Yum! Brands, Wendy's and Burger King

Source: Fast Food Forward
USA : High-Tech's Sketchy Claims for More Foreign Workers

Source: AFL-CIO
Bangladesh : Retailers Key to Bangladesh Worker Safety, Investors Tell Wal-Mart, Gap

Source: AFL-CIO
USA : Immigrant Workers Are Organizing

Source: Monthly Review
USA : Seattle workers use poetry to convey hardship, fight for higher wages

Source: Cross Cut
USA : Fast food workers in Milwaukee walk off the job, call for wage increase, right to a union without retaliation

Source: Milwaukee Courier
USA : U.S. needs a fully functioning National Labor Relations Board: Republican instransigence is harming workers; Obama's recess appointments are in jeopardy

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel