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Unions say workplaces more dangerous under Bush
May 3, 2008Report scores on-the-job fatalities CROCKETT, Calif. — How much is a human life worth? If that life was claimed by one of the nearly 6,000 U.S. workplace fatalities in 2006, the answer is just $10,133. In...
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Video/Audio: Labor Says No to Housing Cuts
May 3, 2008NEW YORK - Trade unionists, housing activists, and residents of New York City public housing gathered at City Hall today to protest the Bush administration's proposed budget cuts to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
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We are workers, not criminals
May 3, 2008In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: 'We are workers, not criminals!' Often it was held in the calloused hands of men...
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May Day: finding its way back home
May 2, 2008I’ve always wanted a button that reads, “Workers of the world unite, back by popular demand” — almost as long as I’ve wanted one that says, “May Day, made in the USA.” May Day 2008 would...
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Dockworkers protest Iraq war, stay off job on May 1
May 2, 2008“We’re standing up for America, we’re supporting the troops, and we’re telling politicians that it’s time to end the Iraq war now!” longshore union workers say. More than 25,000 longshore workers at 29 west coast ports...
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