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Union Plus discounts help union families stretch their budgets, especially during the holidays, and you still have time to enter Union Plus’ “30 Days of Union Cheer,” where each day through Dec. 14 union members will win a gift from Union Plus discount programs. To enter for your chance to win, click here to register.
This Sunday, Hondurans have a real chance to elect leaders at all levels of government who are part of a broad movement for social justice that arose out of the 2009 coup that removed the country’s democratically elected government. Rather than the old two-party system, Hondurans will choose from thousands of candidates in 10 parties. Labor and its progressive allies are founding members of the LIBRE party and have fielded candidates at all levels. Hopes for moving down this path to democracy are high, but so are concerns about fraud and electoral intimidation and violence.
According to every poll, an overwhelming majority of people want to repeal the tax breaks that encourage companies to send jobs overseas and shift their profits to overseas tax havens.
A round of the disturbing game "Knockout" — in which teenagers try to punch out unsuspecting passersby — ended with the arrest of four suspects in a New York City neighborhood Friday.
By Daniella Silva, NBC NewsA $16 million winning Powerball ticket purchased in a Florida suburb expired Thursday night after it remained unclaimed passed the 180-day deadline.The ticket was purchased at a Carrollwood Market, a convenience store in Tampa, Fla.
Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, an extreme storm that may have killed as many as 10,000 people in the Philippines, created a massive demand for nurses who have experience with disaster relief and who are familiar with Tagalog, the most common language in the affected area. In the United States, the Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a project of National Nurses United (NNU), asked for volunteers and 3,000 nurses responded and will be going to help.
Few tragedies loom as large in the American psyche as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas a half-century ago today.Now, we pause to remember that dark day in the country's history — recalling a shared trauma that can feel both political and personal.
A Southern California family is asking for the public's help in finding a missing man whose dog returned home from walk alone with a bloody leash, police said.Darwin Vela, 22, was last seen Tuesday about 9 p.m.
It might strike you as odd that a company that rakes in billions of dollars each year, instead of paying its workers a living wage, is asking them to instead pitch in and donate food to each other so they can afford a holiday meal. Check out this new AFL-CIO Walmart video, and don't forget to find a Walmart Black Friday action near you.
Two of the five children pulled from a car after being submerged in an ice-cold Minnesota pond have died, family members said. The other three are in critical condition."Devastating. It doesn’t get worse than this," said John Sedey, director of the Odyssey Academy charter school in Brooklyn, Minn.
