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Federal judge voids contract between Atlantic City casino and union workers

17 Oct 2014: Union loses guarantees on wages, healthcare and pension but owners are optimistic the Trump Taj Mahal can be saved
Union workers to block New Jersey highway amid Trump Taj Mahal contract dispute

8 Oct 2014: The planned arrests are the latest salvo in the ongoing struggle over Atlantic City’s crumbling casino industry
The real victims of Tom Corbett's move to screw over teachers will be the children of Philadelphia

8 Oct 2014: Valerie Braman: Bashing teachers is an integral part of the political playbook of America’s most vulnerable governor and his Republican party
Philadelphia teachers planning large-scale protests over contract cancellation

7 Oct 2014: Timing of the largely unprecedented decision called into question with less than a month until the state’s gubernatorial election
Why is the deporter-in-chief celebrating while these families get torn apart?

2 Oct 2014: Tania A Unzueta: Obama is still asking for election-year patience on immigration reform. He still doesn’t understand the human cost of delay
Chicago fire puts focus on FAA's reliance on third-party contractors

1 Oct 2014: Experts say many contract workers, like Brian Howard, who started the blaze in Aurora, are poorly paid – and victims of an industry that cuts costs to survive
Colorado teachers stage mass sick-out to protest US history curriculum changes

30 Sep 2014: Seventy percent of the teachers at two Colorado schools refused to work as conservative Jefferson County board tries to change courses and teacher contracts
Los Angeles hotel workers win $15 minimum wage after city council vote

25 Sep 2014: At $15.37 an hour, city sets one of US’s highest minimum wages with ordinance pushed by unions and rights groups
'Flexible' schedules aren't flexible at all. Let's end the always-on-call work day

15 Sep 2014: Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson: Time is the new, critical labor issue. Here’s how to help employees reduce the chaos
Yes, you should feel bad for models: we're being told to go diet – or go broke

9 Sep 2014: Sara Ziff: The unregulated modeling industry relies on young, mostly foreign girls working their way out of impossible debt. For all the criticism about weight, shouldn’t we get legal rights?
Were fast-food workers paid to strike and protest?

8 Sep 2014: McDonald’s says protesters were paid to walk off the job, which strikers say is a corruption of the fact that unions pay arrest fines
Fast-food striker: 'I hope my daughter knows I'm doing this for her'

6 Sep 2014: I work at McDonald’s in Chicago. I was one of the thousands of fast-food workers nationwide who went on strike for fairer wages
US employment payrolls drop because of strikes at one supermarket chain

5 Sep 2014: Market Basket’s troubled summer shows how regional drama affects lower job growth across the whole US
Does watching the NFL make you evil?

5 Sep 2014: Jeb Lund: Given its attitude toward women and racism, the health of its players and the economy, it’s a wonder we remain fans at all
Do fast-food strikes actually work?

4 Sep 2014: Evidence shows that the fast-food strikes are working not just to increase wages, but to reinvent unions and bolster long-dwindling membership