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- May 07, 2013 | Rapid Response The End of the 40-Hour Week? The U.S. House of Representatives is taking up a bill that would replace our guaranteed overtime pay with a new “comp time” system.
- April 03, 2013 Bring Jobs Home is Back! Because of your continued effort to keep holding our lawmakers' feet to the fire, the Bring Jobs Home Act is back! The legislation has been reintroduced in the 113th Congress by Representative Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).
- April 02, 2013 Sequestration . . . What Are Our Priorities? Massive budget cuts known as the sequester are causing a lot of pain for average Americans in ways we can see and ways we often don’t.
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- May 08, 2013 American security should be homemade The quintessential example of American military might in recent years was the nighttime operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Elite U.S. special operations forces, equipped with night-vision goggles, launched a lightning raid on a moonless night that took down one of America’s most dangerous enemies.
- May 07, 2013 Congresswoman Touts Worker Protections That Her Bill Would Weaken Today, the House is set to vote on the Working Families Flexibility Act, legislation that would weaken rules requiring businesses to pay employees overtime wages when they work more than 40 hours in a given week and instead give employers the option of providing their workers with “comp time,” or time off from work.
- January 28, 2013 | MSNBC'S THE ED SHOW Video: Comprehensive immigration reform might be shot in the arm organized labor needs What would immigration reform mean for the labor movement? Ed Schultz asks Leo Gerard of the United Steelworkers if labor will help push immigration reform across the line. (The Ed Show)
