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Holding on to a Sliver of the American Dream

As we demand that elected leaders create policies to build a prosperous country, where everyone can work for a living, support their families and have a fair shot at a better life, they--and corporations--should remember people like Randy Odum, a skycap at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), whose story is emblematic of the plunging wages in the service sector that have contributed to the decline of the once-great American middle class.

Oracle Open World meets real heroes

Oracle Open World is one of the largest tech. conferences in the world. But amid the high-dollar celebration, a group of security officers visited to draw attention to the hard work that they do for often very little money.

SEIU's Eliseo Medina: "César Chávez created a movement that gave a voice to farm workers' fight for social justice and set the foundation for Latino activism in America."

WASHINGTON, DC--Next week, President Obama will announce the establishment of César E. Chávez National Monument in Keene, California in honor of the Latino civil rights leader's legacy in the farm workers movement. Inspired by his words, SEIU's International Secretary-Treasurer Eliseo...