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Labor to Focus on Contractors, Sick Leave in Legislature this Year

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(APN) ATLANTA — Merit pay for teachers, contract workers, minimum wage, and sick leave are all issues that labor groups will be working on during 2016 while the legislature is in session.   Mayor of Clarkston Ted Terry, who also serves as the State Campaign Director of Georgia chapter of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), spoke […]

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Moral Monday Movement Takes on Anti-worker Legislation

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  (APN) ATLANTA — More than one hundred activists, labor leaders, workers, and community advocates turned out in frigid temperatures on March 04, 2014 at the Georgia State Capitol as part of the Moral Monday movement in a rally to “stand up, fight back” for worker’s rights.     The group advocated against anti-worker bills that had been working their […]

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