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Bill would let debt collectors garnish your wages (petition)
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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)

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Leaked investor chapter of the TPP worse than imagined
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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

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Locked out ADT workers in Winston-Salem hold first picket
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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