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Our History Exists -- But You Have to Look for It!

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Labor's Battle Lines Are Drawn

The battle lines are drawn in local elections. The anti-worker establishment candidates are receiving record floods of money and favorable publicity. Our side has only us!

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We Need a Better NAFTA

The new NAFTA is another corporate handout. It won't stem the outsourcing of good jobs or protect the rights of working people. Tell Congress the new NAFTA isn't good enough.

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The U.S. Postal Service is Owned by the People—Let's Keep It That Way

Kenneth Quinnell on Tuesday, April 23 - 12:00pm

As the tax deadline looms and millions scurry to get their forms sent on time, Tax Day is a good time to dispel the myth that the U.S. Postal Service is funded by tax dollars.

As Video Games Make Billions, the Workers Behind Them Say It’s Time to Unionize

Sam Dean on Tuesday, April 23 - 11:49am

At an industry conference for video game developers in late March, the thousands of lanyarded attendees could try new games, swap business cards and hear from experts on rendering realistic blood spatter.

Or they could talk about unionizing.

Hundreds joined a series of standing-room-only roundtables on the topic of organized labor, taking time away from the Game Developers Conference to brainstorm ways to build worker power in an industry that is almost entirely nonunion.

You Paid Taxes. These Corporations Didn't

Kathryn Kranhold on Wednesday, April 17 - 11:21am

Taxpayers are scrambling to make last-minute payments due to the Internal Revenue Service in just four days, but many of the country’s largest publicly-held corporations are doing better: They’ve reported they owe absolutely nothing on the billions of dollars in profits they earned last year.

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