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Little Village residents, already exposed to high levels of air pollution, fear that a legislative plan that would add lanes, paid for with private funding, would worsen health risks.

Little Village residents, already exposed to high levels of air pollution, fear that a legislative plan that would add lanes, paid for with private funding, would worsen health risks.

‘The families of the victims and the public deserve to know what happened and if any criminal elements were present,’ the United Steelworkers union said in a statement.

Faro, Yukon Territory | (30 municipal employees) and International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), Local 115

The strong show of support in Chicago demonstrates how universal this fight is.

Hotel workers at Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square are organizing to join UNITE HERE and the International Union of Operating Engineers, despite the hotel holding mandatory anti-union meetings and threatening to change the schedule of the employee leading the organizing effort. Read more » Workers rallied outside Sofitel last week. Photos via UNITE HERE Local…

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

UPPER DARBY, Pa.—The Philadelphia mayor’s race wasn’t the only key contest Pennsylvania voters decided on May 16. Democrat Heather Boyd’s win in a special election for an open State House seat, with 60% of the vote to Republican Katie Ford’s 39%, ensured progressives kept control of that c...

America faces a shortage of skilled trade workers — as does New Jersey. Women can help.

Actors, electricians, laborers protest alongside Writers Guild members at NBC Tower, chanting, ‘Chicago is a union town.’