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  • Tell Congress to take action on global warming

    Tell Congress to take action on global warming

    April 23, 2008

    Imagine hundreds of thousands of calls flooding Congressional phone lines. That is what LCV and our coalition partners plan to generate today—Earth Day—to demand action on global warming. As the global warming crisis continues to worsen,...

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  • Workers Correspondence: ARAMARK workers in Houston fight for justice

    Workers Correspondence: ARAMARK workers in Houston fight for justice

    April 23, 2008

    I attended the Cesar Chavez march in Houston on March 29. Leaders of many unions were there continuing the battles fought by that great union leader. About 200 people from a wide variety of ethnic and...

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  • They take care of their own

    They take care of their own

    April 23, 2008

    If anything ever smelled of cronyism and favoritism it was the recent decision by the Federal Reserve to set up a special bargain basement where cheap loans are now available to Wall Street kingpins largely responsible...

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  • Honoring Ruben Salazar

    Honoring Ruben Salazar

    April 23, 2008 By Sam Kushner

    Salazar was a Los Angeles Times reporter who covered the Vietnam War and then became news director for the Spanish-language television station KMEX in January 1970.

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  • U.S., Korean workers: free trade pact would spur race to bottom

    U.S., Korean workers: free trade pact would spur race to bottom

    April 23, 2008

    Despite strong resistance from labor and civic organizations in both the United States and South Korea, President Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak vowed to push through the stalled Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement (KORUS...

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