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  • EDITORIAL: Police riot in Los Angeles

    EDITORIAL: Police riot in Los Angeles

    May 11, 2007

    After the massive demonstration for immigrant rights in Los Angeles on May 1, millions of television viewers nationwide watched horrified as helmeted cops swung clubs and fired shotguns into crowds of peaceful marchers and at well-known...

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  • EDITORIAL: A terrorist goes free

    EDITORIAL: A terrorist goes free

    May 11, 2007

    Cuban exile Luis Posada was to have been tried in El Paso, Texas, May 11. But on May 8, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone dismissed fraud charges related to his illegal entry into the U.S. two...

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  • Undue influence: Wal-mart, Google, GE press China to curb workers rights

    Undue influence: Wal-mart, Google, GE press China to curb workers rights

    May 11, 2007

    There is a “tug of war” raging worldwide over reforms in China’s labor law, according to Brendan Smith, Tim Costello and Jerry Brecher, authors of a report released April 5 by Global Labor Strategies (GLS). On...

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  • Health care is our right

    Health care is our right

    May 11, 2007

    HARTFORD, Conn.— Over 5,000 protesters came to the state capital, May 5, to decry lack of health care for 400,000 people in Connecticut and to demand that the Legislature act now to provide health care for...

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  • THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    May 11, 2007

    Union membership would double with EFCA Union membership in the U.S. would almost double from the current 12.4 percent of all workers to 22 percent if the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) were to become law,...

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