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Unions Stand with Occupy Movement in Oakland and Nationwide

The Alameda Labor Council and California Labor Federation are standing in solidarity with Occupy Oakland’s Nov. 2 Day of Action. In a message to activists, council Executive Secretary-Treasurer Josie Camacho says working families are “inspired by the spirit of the fight against Wall Street.”

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Report: Trade Deficit with China Costs 2.8 Million Jobs

The U.S.-China trade deficit has eliminated or displaced nearly 2.8 million jobs, mainly in manufacturing, following that country’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, according to a study released today. View an interactive map of jobs lost throughout the United States here.

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New Report: So-Called Right to Work Is Wrong for Michigan

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and his Republican/tea party supporters—the same gang that eliminated basic democratic rights of cities and towns by imposing a “financial martial law”—are at again. This time they are pushing a so-called right to work law as the answer to state’s foundering economy.

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Report: College Grads Losing Ground on Jobs, Wages

America’s jobs crisis is hitting college grads especially hard, with new graduates less likely to get a job than they were 10 years ago. If they do find work, the job will pay less, on average, than jobs in 2000, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Read the report here.

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Report: Estimates of OSHA Regulation Costs Way Off Base

Last year, researchers Nicole and Mark Crain conducted a study that claimed federal regulations cost businesses $1.75 trillion a year. Included in that total is the assertion that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations cost businesses $65 billion a year. But the study is fundamentally flawed, says John Irons, Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI’s) director of policy and research.

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