Hard Ball Politics and Hidden Cameras in the House of Labor

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Buckhorn Lake,    Ontario Unions wear politics like a second shirt, always in the closet ready to grab off the hanger and put on. Because they are membership organizations, labor leaders in their normal world representing workers who are their members are also always running for office as politicians in their own right. Most of the …

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China May Drop the Stock Market, but India is in Turmoil

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Kiln, Mississippi     So when we read on reputed news agencies like Forex Academy on all the big whoops worrying about their 10ks, plummeting stocks on Wall Street, and whether or not the Fed raises interest rates in Wyoming, what are the rest of us supposed to do? We have grown men and women believing in …

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Politicians Silence Advocates and Organizations

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New Orleans   There is no doubt by anybody anywhere that the Fight for $15 and in general the fight for living wages has been led by unions and community organizations in every country where the campaign has been fought: the United States, the United Kingdom, and, certainly Canada. No matter the tactics and strategy the …

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