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  • Art Shields: Labor’s great reporter

    Art Shields: Labor’s great reporter

    May 18, 2007 By Tim Wheeler

    Art Shields was the Daily Worker’s greatest labor reporter. I got to know Art and his wife Esther, herself a labor journalist, soon after I joined the staff of the Worker in January 1967. Art helped...

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  • Sago Mine families slam govt findings

    Sago Mine families slam govt findings

    May 18, 2007

    PITTSBURGH — “I can’t tell where the coal company ends and MSHA begins,” Deborah Hamner told the Charleston Gazette after a five-hour meeting with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration in which the agency released...

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  • THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    May 18, 2007

    Iraq unions fight oil theft law The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions has put the Iraqi government on notice that it intends to strike as early as next week to demonstrate the federation’s strong opposition to...

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  • Capitalism incapable of reversing environmental crisis

    Capitalism incapable of reversing environmental crisis

    May 18, 2007

    After decades of international conferences like Rio and Kyoto, despite local victories and major protests, the destruction of humanity’s environment continues. The land, air and seas are getting more polluted, forests are shrinking, coral reefs are...

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  • Auto company CEOs rolling in dough

    Auto company CEOs rolling in dough

    May 18, 2007

    DETROIT — If there is a crisis in the auto industry, it certainly cannot be seen when looking at the compensation of its top management. While autoworkers are being laid off, seeing their plants close and...

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