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Bill would let debt collectors garnish your wages (petition)

Bill would let debt collectors garnish your wages (petition)

10 Apr, 2015

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Bill would let debt collectors garnish your wages (petition)

If North Carolina Senate Bill 632 becomes law, working families in North Carolina already struggling to pay their bills could see their wages garnished to pay private debts, and employers who refuse to cooperate with debt collectors could be fined and held in contempt of court.

Bill would let debt collectors garnish your wages (petition)

Batgirl still fighting to get Equal Pay for Equal Work (video)

10 Apr, 2015

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10 Apr, 2015

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Batgirl still fighting to get Equal Pay for Equal Work (video)

Tuesday, April 14 is Equal Pay Day - the day into the new year by which a woman in the United States would have to work just to make as much money as a man did last year.

Batgirl still fighting to get Equal Pay for Equal Work (video)

Working America represents at Medicaid Expansion Lobby Day

Working America represents at Medicaid Expansion Lobby Day

27 Mar, 2015

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Working America represents at Medicaid Expansion Lobby Day

On Tuesday, Working America joined a diverse coalition of organizations to press for North Carolina lawmakers and Governor McCrory to reverse course and expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Working America represents at Medicaid Expansion Lobby Day

Leaked investor chapter of the TPP worse than imagined

Leaked investor chapter of the TPP worse than imagined

26 Mar, 2015

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Leaked investor chapter of the TPP worse than imagined

Leaked text from the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations published by Wikileaks reveals that the TPP would give corporations sweeping new powers over the U.S. government, a revelation that "must be a wake up call for our nation", says CWA President Larry Cohen.

Leaked investor chapter of the TPP worse than imagined

Locked out ADT workers in Winston-Salem hold first picket

Locked out ADT workers in Winston-Salem hold first picket

20 Mar, 2015

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Locked out ADT workers in Winston-Salem hold first picket

On Saint Patrick's Day, about a dozen community members and workers, who have been locked out of their jobs since February by ADT Security Alarm Company in Winston-Salem, NC, walked an information picket line for four hours at the busiest intersection in town to raise awareness of the company's illegal behavior.

Locked out ADT workers in Winston-Salem hold first picket

Jim Hightower: Think BIG about what the postal service could be

Jim Hightower: Think BIG about what the postal service could be

20 Mar, 2015

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Jim Hightower: Think BIG about what the postal service could be

In the latest issue of his fiery monthly newsletter, The Lowdown, populist truth-teller Jim Hightower uses the story of how the small town of Valentine, Texas is rallying to save its post office from closing to call on Americans to think big about what postal service in the 21st century could be and to introduce A Grand Alliance that has formed to save the United States Postal Service from annihilation.

Jim Hightower: Think BIG about what the postal service could be