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Baseball fans celebrate Sotomayor
May 28, 2009New York City sports pages are now aglow with the 1994-95 decision by federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor that imposed an injunction on the Major League Baseball owners, which stopped them from imposing their own labor rules...
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Coalition of Black Trade Unionists conference highlights labors long term battles
May 28, 2009ATLANTA – The nation’s economic crisis and the importance of the fight against racism were high on the agenda at the CBTU’s annual convention May 21-25 in this city. The nation’s economic crisis is the result...
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Quad City Die Casting workers demand Wells Fargo save their jobs
May 28, 2009Wells Fargo is under fire again. This time, members of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE) Local 1174, want the bank to keep their Moline, Ill., Quad City Die Casting plant open. The bank is...
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‘There’s no way I’m going to deploy to Afghanistan’
May 28, 2009MARFA, Texas, May 26 (IPS) - 'It’s a matter of what I’m willing to live with,' Specialist Victor Agosto of the U.S. Army, who is refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan, explained to IPS. 'I’m not...
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Report calls for fairer treatment of Latino youth in justice system
May 28, 2009A new report released by the National Council of La Raza and the Campaign for Youth Justice yesterday finds that the U.S. justice system incarcerates more Latino youth than White youth and treats them more harshly...
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