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Choose your side: Moms vs. Millionaires

26 Oct, 2012

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26 Oct, 2012

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Choose your side: Moms vs. Millionaires

When it comes to letting 140 millionaires have a tax-free inheritance versus protecting tax credits that benefit 522,645 working families and their 1.1 million children, we think that should be an easy call.

Choose your side: Moms vs. Millionaires

An economic traitor is running for President

25 Oct, 2012

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25 Oct, 2012

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An economic traitor is running for President

Right now there are hundreds of Americans in Illinois experiencing first-hand what happens when an economic traitor buys out their company. Not only is Mitt Romney's Bain Capital shipping their jobs overseas, they are humiliating Sensata workers by forcing them to take down the American flag while training their Chinese replacements.

An economic traitor is running for President

Where did the debt come from?

25 Oct, 2012

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25 Oct, 2012

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Where did the debt come from?

How we went in ten years from a projected record surplus to record deficits is a desperately needed reality check during an overheated election season.

Where did the debt come from?

President Obama diagnoses Mitt Romney's case of 'Romnesia'

19 Oct, 2012

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19 Oct, 2012

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President Obama diagnoses Mitt Romney's case of 'Romnesia'

Campaigning in Fairfax, Virginia, President Obama tried to explain Mitt Romney's attempt to recast himself as a moderate after campaigning for six years as "severely conservative."

President Obama diagnoses Mitt Romney's case of 'Romnesia'

Boycott American Crystal Sugar products

Boycott American Crystal Sugar products

19 Oct, 2012

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Boycott American Crystal Sugar products

Sugar shouldn't leave a bitter taste in your mouth. That's why we are calling on American Crystal Sugar to end the 14-month lockout of its workers, members of BCTGM. Until Crystal Sugar agrees to end the lockout, the AFL-CIO will call for a boycott of the company's products.

Boycott American Crystal Sugar products

Sharing solidarity in North Carolina on Oct. 27

Sharing solidarity in North Carolina on Oct. 27

19 Oct, 2012

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Sharing solidarity in North Carolina on Oct. 27

Join the United Steelworkers, UAW, IBEW, and other AFL-CIO affiliates along with the Teamsters and SEIU to show your support for laid-off workers from the Hyosung Plant in Asheboro and for our political program at a solidarity rally in Statesville next Saturday (10/27).

Sharing solidarity in North Carolina on Oct. 27