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Working people in Colorado have the shakes—actually, the Harlem Shake. The Colorado AFL-CIO created a Harlem Shake video in support of House Bill 1291, the "Keep Jobs in Colorado Act," which is being heard Monday in the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee. The bill is sponsored by Democrats Pete Lee (Colorado Springs) and Dan Pabon (Denver).
When Maria Roa arrived in Medellin 10 years ago, her primary focus was to provide a better life for her three children. She took a job as a domestic worker, as many Afro-Colombian women do, but quickly realized the position was underpaid and overworked. Despite the nature of this physically and emotionally challenging work, domestic workers like Maria have been successful in their organizing efforts to form a new union to combat workplace discrimination, improve benefits and establish job security.
The son of slain Texas district attorney Mike McClelland believes his father’s death, which came two months after another local prosecutor was murdered, should prompt officials across the country to monitor their safety.“It needs to put all public officials on their toes,’’ J.R. McClelland said on TODAY Monday. “It’s not just Texas. It’s basically domestic terrorism.’’Mike McClelland, 63, and his ...
UNITE HERE launched a five-day hunger strike on Friday in support of nine immigrant hotel workers who are being laid off from the Hilton Mission Valley in San Diego. The hunger strike goes through 12 p.m. on Tuesday.
As word spreads that President Obama’s budget proposal will call for Social Security and Medicare benefit cuts, other voices are calling for increasing the successful programs instead as the medicine struggling families and a weak economy need.A report for the New America Foundation highlights the crisis in retirement security and proposes expanding Social Security.
Authorities have recovered the bodies of two children who became trapped underneath dirt at a residential construction site near Charlotte, N.C., The Associated Press reported.The children – a 6-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy – were reportedly playing around an excavated basement Sunday under construction near their grandparents’ home when a wall collapsed, trapping them below ground, accordin...
Presidents typically have a short window of opportunity in their second terms to ink major accomplishments, and the next few weeks will offer President Barack Obama a key test of his ability to do just that.Congress returns from its recess Monday to begin work on central components of Obama’s second-term agenda. Their work over the next two months could begin to cement, just four months into Obama...
CHICAGO -- A derailment on an Amtrak train from Chicago caused by a mudslide forced passengers to take buses for the last leg of their trip Sunday morning.No injuries were reported for the train's 86 passengers and 11 crew members on board, however, travelers were forced to finish the last 30 miles of their trip via buses, according to Amtrak officials.A mudslide, repotedly involving 30 feet of ea...
NEW YORK -- A teenage girl has been accused of starting the three-alarm fire that ripped through a Bronx apartment building Saturday, affecting more than a dozen families and injuring several firefighters, authorities said.Police said the 19-year-old allegedly lit a mattress on fire inside the six-story apartment complex in University Heights where she lives with her family, igniting the fast-movi...
Google's futuristic Glass headgear will be available before year's end. The device may well be the final step before human-machine interaction moves under our skin — but its wearers may trigger some undesired social reactions from friends and family members, and it may not go over too well at your local watering hole, either. In fact, judging from our early look, Google Glass won't be welcome in l...
