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USA : Immokalee farmworkers march 200 miles to end abuses

Source: WINK
USA : ITF keeping port and vessel under observation

Source: ITF
USA : Union-backed LA mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel comes in second, but gets slot in run-off race

Source: Los Angeles Times
USA : Jobs to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection

Source: NYTimes
USA : Jury sides with woman firefighter in harassment lawsui

Source: Columbus Dispatch
USA : Union vote will happen this weei for Star Tickets workers organizing with the IWW.

Source: mlive
USA : Breaking! Star Tickets workers win!

Source: GRIID
IBEW President Edwin D. Hill Lauds President Obamaenrsquo;s Energy Department Pick

IBEW President Edwin D. Hill Lauds President Obamaenrsquo;s Energy Department Pick
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In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama joined a growing chorus of voices demanding that the national minimum wage be raised.  Tuesday, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representative George Miller (D-Calif.) announced they will introduce the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013.
Krugman Says Increased Spending, Not Austerity, Key to Creating Jobs

Before a packed crowd at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman said the way to ease the economic crisis in the United States is to create more jobs through increased public investment, raising wages and restoring workers’ ability to bargain collectively. Austerity policies are the last thing we should be doing. The event was part of AFL-CIO's Book Club series. Krugman discussed major themes in his book End This Depression Now!, which was just released in paperback.