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Day Laborers Defend Their Right to Public Space in Court
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Cambodian Workers Wrest Justice from Wal-Mart and H&M Supplier
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How the Poultry Industry Is Grinding Up Workers’ Health and Rights
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Is Gender Justice Getting Shafted in Immigration Reform?
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How ‘This American Life’ Got Disability Wrong
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Women Unionists of the Arab Spring Battle Two Foes: Sexism and Neoliberalism
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A New Door for Guestworkers?
(National Guestworker Alliance) Originally posted at In These Times The perennial impasse in the immigration debate between labor and business seems to be fading as a group of senators, working with...
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Domestic Workers Sow a New Global Movement
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Cutting the Budget, Bleeding Us Dry
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Washington’s Anti-Regulatory Crusade, and Why Your Job Hasn’t Killed You Yet
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Shame of the Nation: House VAWA Bill Ratchets Up Attacks on Domestic Violence...
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Corporate-Approved State Bills Kick Low-Wage Workers While They’re Down
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Cambodian Workers Wrest Justice from Wal-Mart and H&M Supplier
Cambodian garment workers celebrate winning a settlement of as much as $200,000. (Photo from Community Legal Education Center) Cross-posted at In These Times After workers across the U.S. staged...
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How the Poultry Industry Is Grinding Up Workers’ Health and Rights
Originally posted at In These Times Juan (not his real name) was instructed to get back to work after falling while lifting an 80-pound box of chicken. X-rays later showed two fractured vertebrae. He...
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Is Gender Justice Getting Shafted in Immigration Reform?
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How ‘This American Life’ Got Disability Wrong
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Women Unionists of the Arab Spring Battle Two Foes: Sexism and Neoliberalism
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A New Door for Guestworkers?
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Domestic Workers Sow a New Global Movement
Members of the International Domestic Workers' Network show support for the groundbreaking International Labor Organization's Convention 189, signed in 2011. (Courtesy of WIEGO) Originally posted at In...
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