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Pro-labor candidate to oppose Schwarzenegger
June 9, 2006Labor and progressive forces scored significant victories and mounted important challenges in California’s June 6 primary election. A strong grassroots campaign by labor and its allies was the biggest factor in State Treasurer Phil Angelides’ 48-43...
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June 9, 2006FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.: Wal-Mart is hazardous to your health As Wal-Mart stockholders streamed into their annual meeting June 2, scores of labor activists — decked out in hazmat suits, displaying health hazard signs, and standing behind yellow...
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Minimum wage to loom large in Ohio vote
June 9, 2006A variety of progressive, issue-oriented forces are at work in the Ohio elections, trying to build a political movement capable of ousting the ultra-right from control of state government in November. Industrial unions, for example, are...
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Right to organize gains ground in Congress
June 9, 2006Fifty-seven million Americans say they’d join a union if they had a chance. And due to a hard-fought, close to the ground campaign, legislation to give them that right is now within striking distance of victory....
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Nothing divine about bombs, Western Shoshone charge
June 9, 2006A huge conventional bomb test — ironically named “Divine Strake” — has been postponed “indefinitely,” but the struggle goes on. That was the message June 3 as protesters gathered in Reno, Nev., to continue their opposition...
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