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HOPE for Houston
April 4, 2008HOUSTON —When the City Council last week approved a three-year contract with the Houston Organization of Public Employees by a 13 to 2 vote, Houston became the first city in Texas to okay a labor agreement...
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Im in a world of hurt
April 4, 2008Shawn Boone did not die instantly five years ago at the Hayes Lemmerz plant in Huntington, Ind. He was lying on the floor, his body smoldering, as the aluminum dust burned through his flesh and then...
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Blogging from India #5 Communist Party of India (Marxist) meets
April 4, 2008COIMBATORE, India — In a city at the center of India’s textile industry — one that is full of working class history and struggle — the Communist Party of India (Marxist) concluded its six-day congress April...
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Striking Venezuelan steel workers gain support
April 4, 2008The struggle of the steel workers at SIDOR, Latin America’s fourth largest steel plant, located in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, is unfolding under complex conditions imposed by multiple actors on that country’s revolutionary stage. Brutal attacks March...
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Temple U. workers demand a fair contract
April 4, 2008PHILADELPHIA ― A boisterous crowd of some 500 members of AFSCME Local 1723 and their supporters rallied on the Temple University campus here April 1 in a noontime action to protest the university’s stalling tactics. The...
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