Pennsylvania AFL-CIO

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  Hershey not so sweet for foreign student workers

  By Mark Scolforo  |  August 18, 2011

  Foreign students working at a candy warehouse protested conditions and pay for a second day Thursday, chanting on Chocolate Avenue under streetlights shaped like Hershey's Kisses, arguing that they were employed under the guise of a cultural exchange but toil away in what amounts to a sweets sweatshop.

• Miners rally for Pennsylvania public employees

  By Vicki Smith  |  April 4, 2011

  Thousands of union coal miners and supporters from several states tried to fuel an uprising in southwestern Pennsylvania, proclaiming themselves ready to mobilize for the war they say is being waged on organized labor in the United States.