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Union members cheer as they discuss preparations for a strike against as many as five of the city's eight casinos in Atlantic City, N.J. on Wednesday June 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) (AP)

These hotel workers say they shouldn’t have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet

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Workplace deaths are rising. Trump-era budget cuts could make it worse

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A new model for progressive politics in the heart of deindustrialization

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Inside the Trump Administration’s plan to shrink the NLRB

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Baltimore politicians are letting union jobs die while making way for luxury real estate

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Organizers: Baltimore seafood business masks shocking labor abuses

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Jimmy John’s fired workers for making a “disloyal” meme. A court just ruled that’s okay

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GM to Colombian workers injured on the job: You’re on your own

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Protesting the skinny budget: Union actors and musicians fight Trump’s attacks on the arts

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Baltimore’s Democratic mayor breaks promise, vetoes $15 minimum wage bill

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Working while sick is “a plague and we need to wipe it out”: Maryland faces paid sick leave showdown

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FILE - This March 20, 2013, file photo shows Culinary Union workers demonstrating along Las Vegas Boulevard, protesting against their contract negotiations with Deutsche Bank in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Despite some union support, Trump’s new labor pick would be terrible for workers

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Demonstrators at a protest for a $15-an-hour nationwide minimum wage in Chicago, April 14, 2016. (Reuters/Jim Young)

Movin’ on up might be a pipe dream: Early optimism crushed in Maryland’s fight for $15 minimum wage

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Nancy Pelosi, Michele Bachmann (AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Chris O'Meara)

Freakish vote breaks partisanship, pits hunger vs. jobs

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