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ngineers at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility
Engineers at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. The facility maintains and modernizes the U.S. Navy's fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Richard Chaffee/Released)

Public employees and their unions are frequent scapegoats when elected officials seek to score political points or contract out government services. But despite what you may have read, there are many examples of productive labor-management relations in the public sector. A new report released by the Jobs With Justice Education… Read More»

Learn more about the workers that made Monday a national holiday: http://bit.ly/1gVcmRd

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Leaked internal Walmart documents published by Occupy Wall Street reveal a centralized, coordinated effort to deter workplace organizing. Share this now!

Leaked internal Walmart documents published by Occupy Wall Street reveal a centralized, coordinated effort to deter workplace organizing. Last night, Occupy Wall Street published secret internal documents from Walmart revealing the company’s highly coordinated efforts to chill workplace organizing among employees. The files are rife with misleading claims about OUR… Read More»

This could explain a few things... "Among the 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of $1 million or more for 2012." Learn more: http://bit.ly/1dCYesa

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Learn more about one mayor's vow get his city a $15 minimum wage: http://bit.ly/1cFMA2j

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"If we were we scrapping our current system and starting from scratch, Washington could make public college tuition free with the money it sets aside its scattershot attempts to make college affordable today." Read more: http://bit.ly/JYDvas

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The Department of Justice, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation all have federal investigations open on Sallie Mae. So why is the Department of Education giving Sallie Mae a lucrative five-year contract? Learn more: http://www.jwj.org/sallie-maes-failings-continue-to-go-unpunished/

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Thanks to new legislation taking effect this year, an estimated 2.5 million minimum wage workers in at least 13 states will receive much-needed pay increases in 2014. As wealth inequality continues to grow, these latest pay increases are a step in the right direction. In New York, the minimum wage… Read More»