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Rush Limbaugh joins CEOs with anti-Employee Free Choice threats
March 19, 2009CLEVELAND – The labor movement here is actively mobilizing to support the Employee Free Choice Act, which would weaken the ability of companies to intimidate workers from joining a union.
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El Salvador: Crisis, poverty huge challenges for leftist president
March 19, 2009SAN SALVADOR, Mar 17 (IPS) - The main challenges faced by El Salvador’s leftwing president-elect Mauricio Funes are forging understandings with other political sectors, adopting measures to deal with the economic crisis, and especially its effects...
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The fight for the EFCA in the land of Wal-Mart
March 19, 2009Original source: In the battle surrounding the Employee Free Choice Act, legislators from one Southern state could make all the difference. Arkansas could be pushed front-and-center in the coming months as the showdown over the pro-worker...
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SS veterans march in Latvia to remember nazi troops
March 19, 2009Original source: About 300 Latvians marched through Riga on Monday to honour soldiers who fought in an elite nazi unit during World War II. Several dozen representatives from Latvia's anti-fascist committee held a counter-demonstration, chanting: 'Hitler...
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Defining moment for Pakistan
March 19, 2009Original source There are defining moments in the life of every nation. Pakistan can rightly claim that the March 16, 2009 restoration of Ifthikar Chaudhary as Chief Justice was just such a moment in its 61-year...
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