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The era of replacement referees is over after the National Football League and its officials’ union reached an agreement late last night to end the league’s lockout. The deal, which follows months of fighting between the two sides and a lockout that kept officials off the field for all preseason games and the first three weeks of the NFL season, came amidst fan and player outrage about a blown call on Monday Night Football that changed the outcome of a game.

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This could have been my grandmother and her sister near the turn of the 20th century in a Rhose Island textile mill.

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Today’s rally at the City Hall for the Paid Sick Day Act. (Photo credit: New York Communities for Change) 34-year-old Felix Trinidad died last month after a battle with cancer that wasn’t diagnosed until it was too late, in part because he lacked the ability to take paid sick leave from the job he depended on. As his health declined, Trinidad could not afford to take time off from his job at a Golden Farm supermarket in Kensington, NY, because his employers did not provide him with any paid sick leave — and by the time he eventually made it to a hospital emergency room, he was told he had advanced stomach cancer

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Workers at a Caterpillar plant in Joliet, Illinois, have been on strike to protest their company’s attempt to freeze wages and pensions for several years. The company is demanding these concessions despite making billions of dollars in profits and paying its CEO $17 million. Last week, Gov

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From: John Nichols John Nichols While Romney toured Poland, the current leaders of the historic union denounced his “support for the attacks against trade unions and labor rights.”

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Elvia Bahena Hyatt hotels continues to ask us to have a strong belief in coincidence. As in, the coincidence that so many of the workers who speak out against Hyatt’s bad labor practices coincidentally have work records that coincidentally lead to them getting fired right after speaking out.

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The number of workers filing wage theft complaints against their employers for not paying overtime wages hit a record high in 2011, according to a report from law firm Seyfarth Shaw.

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From: Katrina vanden Heuvel Katrina vanden Heuvel Urge New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to pass paid sick day legislation. It’s common sense, smart and humane policy.

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