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This month, workers are reflecting on Black History Month and strides being made to ensure everyone has access to civil and workplace rights. James Gibbs, a third-generation coal miner from southwestern Virginia and an at-large international vice president of the Mine Workers (UMWA), shares a story today about his mother standing up to a prejudiced restaurant owner who initially refused to serve the mother and son. Text HISTORY to 235246 to hear more workers' Black History Month reflections (standard data and message rates may apply).
An army of emergency crews were gearing up for battle Wednesday with a vicious ice storm in Georgia that had already cut off power for tens of thousands of people across a long arm of the Southeast and left the streets of Atlanta looking like a sci-fi wasteland.
A bus driver was killed and four people injured when a New York City bus and a stolen truck collided on Wednesday, slamming into scaffolding in lower Manhattan, New York officials said.
Corvette fans may want to look away. A massive sinkhole opened up beneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, swallowing eight of the cars on display.
A judge has set a trial date of Nov. 3 in the case of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — nearly a year earlier than what defense lawyers wanted.Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if convicted. Prosecutors have said they expect the trial to last 12 weeks.
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Working people know that the American economy doesn’t work for us. When we see corporate greed taking our voice at work away from us again and again, it becomes harder to hold on to hope. The share of workers who have union membership is less than 12% now, at its lowest rate in nearly 100 years. Given this equation, how much power can unions have to improve the lives of working families? When unions are mentioned in the media, we are painted as lazy, greedy and only fighting for ourselves. Why would anyone want to join a group like that? That is, if the general public knows about their rights at all. How can you join a union if you don’t even know that having a voice at work is possible?
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
Ice forming like daggers on power lines in Georgia could mean widespread power outages amid the wicked storm.
