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Fired up for change. It started in Iowa
January 11, 2008DES MOINES, Iowa — Fed up with the far right’s 30-year legacy of fear, division and hate, the American people are using the 2008 elections as a movement for change. Riding a tidal wave unleashed by...
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Labor news around the nation
January 9, 2008LOS ANGELES (PAI)--Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has sided with the joint Teamsters-environmentalist “clean trucks” campaign at the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach, Ricardo Hidalgo reports in the Southern California Teamster. The union is...
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Lawmakers introduce bill to renegotiate NAFTA or dump it
January 9, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--Reps. Nancy Boyda (D-Kansas), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and five others have introduced legislation ordering the government to renegotiate the controversial U.S.-Mexico-Canada “free trade” treaty, NAFTA. If bargaining fails, their bill orders the U.S. to dump...
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Unemployment jumps to 5 percent;Thousands of jobs lost in construction, manufacturing
January 9, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--The nation’s unemployment rate ended 2007 by jumping 0.3 percent in December to 5 percent, 0.1 percent higher than in December 2006. Almost 500,000 more people lost their jobs last month. Factories and construction shed...
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Federal worker unions win big in defense bill
January 9, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)—Federal workers and their unions racked up two big wins in what is, for now, the final version of the Defense Department’s authorization bill. The measure, which the Democratic-run House sent to anti-worker GOP President...
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