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A gay couple of 14 years stayed up late Friday night in Texas to watch the Hawaii House of Representatives approve a bill legalizing same-sex marriage after a heated, days-long debate in the Aloha state legislature.
The Seafarers (SIU) is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. The union received its charter from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on Oct. 14, 1938, and the November issue of the Seafarers Log looks back on those 75 years with a year-by-year timeline.
A federal prosecutor opened the sentencing of Whitey Bulger on Wednesday by calling the Boston mob boss a "sociopath.""The carnage he has caused is grotesque," said Assistant U.S.
Families of eight murder victims who wanted to deliver victim impact statements at the sentencing of Whitey Bulger will be allowed to speak, even though the Boston mob boss was not convicted of those slayings.
Delegates to the AFL-CIO Convention in September approved a resolution declaring that one of the federation’s “top priorities [is] a Southern Strategy that will include a long-term commitment to organize the South.” Recently, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution took a look at union organizing efforts in the South and talked to a number of labor leaders. Here are some excerpts.
We held a tweetchat yesterday on creating momentum around economic policy for women, including raising the minimum wage, paid sick days, family and medical leave and much more. AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler, National Organization for Women’s Terry O’Neill, Black Youth Project 100’s Charlene Carruthers and Upworthy’s Laura Willard shared their thoughts, as well as heard what you had to say.
A strong blast of freezing Arctic air is barreling across the Northeast and South, sending a chill through cities and towns that haven’t been struck by such a cold spell since last winter.
PHOENIX — Police responding to reports of gunfire found four people dead in and around a northeast Phoenix house Tuesday in what they said may be a triple murder followed by a suicide.
Workers at a recycling plant in Westchester County discovered a dead baby inside a plastic bag Tuesday, police say.Investigators are now looking into how the baby was killed before it wound up at the Brookfield Recycling Plant in Elmsford.
