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  • Republic workers may get greener jobs

    Republic workers may get greener jobs

    January 15, 2009

    CHICAGO -- A leading company in the green window business, California-based Serious Materials, is in the final stages of working out a purchase agreement of Republic Windows and Doors assets, according to United Electrical Workers Local...

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  • Obama considers union leaders for administration posts

    Obama considers union leaders for administration posts

    January 15, 2009

    The times they are a changing! As the most anti-labor president since Calvin Coolidge vacates the White House, the incoming administration is mulling over the names of labor leaders it is considering for many government slots....

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  • Obama considers union leaders for administration posts

    Obama considers union leaders for administration posts

    January 14, 2009

    The times they are a changing! As the most anti-labor president since Calvin Coolidge vacates the White House, the incoming administration is mulling over the names of labor leaders it is considering for many government slots....

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  • Poll shows growing support for Employee Free Choice Act

    Poll shows growing support for Employee Free Choice Act

    January 13, 2009

    A poll by Peter Hart Research, one of the nation’s most reputable polling outfits, shows that Americans now support passage of the Employee Free Choice act by a whopping 78 to 22 percent margin, a record...

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  • They have the gall

    They have the gall

    January 13, 2009

    The arrogance of attempts by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and George W. Bush to fool us is unbounded. Here’s why. In Colombia, thousands of indigenous people, peasants, unionists and leftists have been murdered or disappeared, mostly...

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