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This week’s “Throwback Thursday” feature takes us back to 1960 in an AFL-CIO film that goes backstage for a close look at the work the members of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) perform from “play in” to curtain up. 

Ferguson, Missouri Mayor James Knowles comments on the Justice Department’s intention to launch a civil rights investigation of the city’s police department.

An American citizen with aspirations of joining Islamic militant group ISIS has pleaded not guilty to a weapons charge that officials nabbed him on.

A review of an Oklahoma execution that was halted midway through says an improperly monitored IV line likely caused problems in administering three lethal drugs.

The workers — from McDonald's, Wendy's and other chains — are demanding at least $15 per hour as part of a living wage campaign supported by unions.

Here are some headlines from the working families’ news we're reading today (after the jump).

Fast food workers planned to walk off the job in an estimated 150 cities on Thursday, with employees in many locations planning civil disobedience.