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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union closed all ports on the West Coast in solidarity with a national day of protest to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, an activist and journalist who was on death row in Pennsylvania at the time. ~ Today in Labor History

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Labor's New Reality
Updated On: Dec 15, 2014
Dec. 15, 2014  | U.S. LABOR |  Haltingly, with understandable ambivalence, the American labor movement is morphing into something new. Its most prominent organizing campaigns of recent years – of fast-food workers, domestics, taxi drivers and Walmart employees – have prompted states and cities to raise their minimum wage and create more worker-friendly regulations. But what these campaigns haven't done is create more than a small number of new dues-paying union members. Nor, for the foreseeable future, do unions anticipate that they will. Continue reading here.
 
 
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