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Despite a pay raise and Senate proposals to increase state revenue, a state union leader anticipates teachers will continue their walkout on Monday.
Despite a pay raise and Senate proposals to increase state revenue, a state union leader anticipates teachers will continue their walkout on Monday.
Rat poison chemical found in bodies of two synthetic pot smokers in Illinois
Synthetic weed products "are not safe and may affect the brain much more powerfully than marijuana," officials say.
Synthetic weed products "are not safe and may affect the brain much more powerfully than marijuana," officials say.
Synthetic weed products "are not safe and may affect the brain much more powerfully than marijuana," officials say.
We’re Reaching for that Mountaintop: The Working People Weekly List
Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s this week’s Working People Weekly List.
Honoring the Life and Preserving the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.: “By recognizing social and economic justice as one and the same, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. understood the immense power working people have when they come together. He saw union representation as the clearest path out of poverty and into the middle class, and fought for the rights of all people to have good jobs and a voice at work.”
Trumka in Memphis: We’re Reaching for that Mountaintop: “At the 1961 AFL-CIO Convention, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that the labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature. He spews racism from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other.”
King’s Agenda for Working People Resonates 50 Years Later: “Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his final speech in Memphis, Tennessee. In the decades since his assassination, much of the focus...
"They just seem like decent kids — they never did anything to deserve this."
"They just seem like decent kids — they never did anything to deserve this."
"They just seem like decent kids — they never did anything to deserve this."
