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Mich. AFL-CIO urges stepped-up action
May 25, 2007TROY, Mich. — Mark Gaffney, president of the Michigan AFL-CIO, addressed its 27th biennial convention here May 15 and called for labor to put the word “movement” back on its agenda. He cited labor’s history and...
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Laundry workers vow to strike till we win
May 25, 2007CHICAGO — Some 20 laundry workers who have been on strike since last July at Lechner and Sons, a uniform-rental and industrial laundering company in nearby Mount Prospect, Ill., joined with community and labor leaders to...
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WORLD NOTES
May 25, 2007Egypt: Women go on strike, occupy garment plant At the Mansoura-Espana Garments Co. in Talkha, in the Nile Delta, workers earn about 120-250 Egyptian pounds per month ($21-$43). They pay the equivalent of $5-$15 a month...
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Venezuelas rightists raise din on TV issue
May 25, 2007The Venezuelan television channel RCTV will be ending its operation at midnight May 26. The government of President Hugo Chavez is not renewing the station’s 20-year-old public broadcasting license. Chavez’s opponents will mark the occasion by...
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Media often abets sex trafficking
May 25, 2007UNITED NATIONS — At a recent conference here sponsored by the Republic of Belarus on the global problem of sexual slavery, two high-ranking officials from Belarus spoke to the World about the responsibility of the mass...
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