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"This accident, like many rail accidents, was preventable."
The first-ever White House Summit on Worker Voice was held this week—“to explore ways to ensure that middle-class Americans are sharing in the benefits of the broad-based economic growth they are helping to create.” Yes, all working people need a voice on the job.
"He still has a tremendous degree of anxiety," Mace's San Francisco attorney, Scott Johnson, told NBC Bay Area on Thursday.
Gun rights activists say they plan an armed protest of President Obama's Friday visit to Umpqua Community College. KING's John Langeler reports.
A high school will elect a 20-student court, but no homecoming king or queen for a gender-neutral celebration. WMTV's Jaleesa Irizarry reports.
This week, the AFL-CIO, the National Women's Law Center and other groups sent a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel urging the German government to end a gag order that restricts T-Mobile workers' ability to speak up in response to sexual harassment and other discrimination. Read the text of the letter below.
Oklahoma puts all future executions on hold after using the wrong drug on an inmate scheduled to die. KFOR's Lorne Fultonberg reports.
The military has spent millions of dollars trying to fix the Sea Stallion's engine problems after repeated mechanical failures over the past 30 years,
Americans are increasingly fed up with an economy that rewards wealth over work, a message that’s made it all the way to the top. That’s why when the White House hosted a Summit on Worker Voice on Wednesday to highlight the power of working people standing together to demand better jobs and better lives, one notable corporation had been excluded—Walmart.
The White House is weighing a major gun control proposal that would establish new guidelines for who is legally defined as a licensed gun dealer.