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Obama wins more union backing, pushes massive job creation

Presidential candidate Barack Obama, during a speech to auto workers at the GM plant in Janesville, Wisc., Feb. 13, put forward his support for what amounts to a large chunk of labor’s program to re-vitalize the...

U.S. labor leaders to Bush: No trade deal with murderers

Top labor leaders ended a trip to Colombia Feb. 13 by telling that country’s president, Alvaro Uribe, that American unions will not support the U.S. – Colombia Free Trade Agreement until the killing of union members...

Seismic shift in ‘Potomac primary’

BALTIMORE -- Holding a clipboard with the names and addresses of registered voters, Erin Wheeler, 16, went door-to-door for Barack Obama in Northeast Baltimore Tuesday Feb. 12, the “Potomoc Primary.” She is my youngest granddaughter. It...

Uncertainty

Shades of Green: Feb. 16, 2008