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The LABOR Paper - Serving Organized Labor Since 1896
Labor Union Members

Monthly Archives: March 2018

Donate to the Mother Jones Museum

Hello brothers and sisters, I am writing you as a member of the Mother Jones Museum events committee in Mt. Olive Illinois. United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts will be laying wreaths at the graves of the legendary Irish born labor agitator Mother Jones, stellar former...
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Working Hard, Hardly Working

In the last forty-five years, American economic productivity has gone through the roof while hourly wages have stagnated. Higher productivity means more wealth, of course, but workers aren’t seeing a proportional cut of that wealth — executives and shareholders are keeping it for themselves. The fact that...
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