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Union leaders meet with White House on health reform
January 11, 2010WASHINGTON (PAI)--Democratic President Barack Obama tried Jan. 11 to convince top union leaders to drop labor's opposition to taxing workers' health care benefits.
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Political courage to create jobs is lacking, AFL-CIO’s Trumka charges
January 11, 2010Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, in a major address today at the National Press Club in Washington, said the jobs crisis "cries out for political courage but that courage is not much in evidence.
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Trumka: Time for a new economy
January 11, 2010The full text of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's speech on labor's agenda for a new economy at the National Press Club.
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Films provoke disturbing image: ‘world war’ against women
January 11, 2010With the spectacular response of the movie "Precious," this might be the moment that some movies are sending urgent messages to us about a "world war" against women.
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Keep Cesar Chavez in Texas textbooks, UFW urges
January 11, 2010The United Farm Workers of America is urging supporters to stop the Texas state Board of Education from eliminating Cesar Chavez and other historic Latino leaders from public school textbooks.
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