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Guerrilla theatre (or at least cow theatre) came to Franklin High School in Seattle recently during the height of the “mad cow” scare, when a rank-and-file officer from Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 609 in cow costume met with students there during a lunch period.

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President Bush recently proposed a new temporary worker program, describing it as part of a scheme of “fair and secure immigration reform.” However, as observed by numerous immigrant and worker organizations, this program does nothing to meet the real and pressing needs of the millions of...

In their trek across the country this past September, over 1,000 immigrant workers and their allies demonstrated in 116 U.S. cities during the Immigrant Worker’s Freedom Ride demanding equal workplace rights and immigration reform.

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Health care workers on Canada’s west coast are getting a taste of “sweetheart contracts” that favor multinational corporations over workers’ rights, and the Canadian labor movement is divided on how to respond.

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Members of Service Employees Local 660 beat back management’s demand to force workers to pay increases in health insurance premiums, after hundreds of worksite protests throughout Los Angeles County and massive rallies in the streets and at the offices of the County Board of Supervisors.

New cars are shiny because of special and toxic chemical that's added to their paint jobs...