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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
May 4, 2007Steelworkers urge Drummond probe United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard has urged U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to join his counterpart in Colombia, Attorney General Mario Iguarian, in investigating the links between paramilitaries and Drummond Coal Co....
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Mississippi on the mind and Cuba
May 4, 2007In a front-page story April 22, The New York Times reported that infant mortality rates (IMR) in Mississippi and other Southern states are rising. The IMR measures the number of first-year infant deaths per thousand births....
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Human rights group hits Wal-Mart for abuse
May 4, 2007Human Rights Watch issued a report May 1 that said Wal-Mart’s aggressive efforts to keep out labor unions often violate federal law and infringe on workers’ rights. The human rights organization said that when Wal-Mart stores...
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Faulty economics and the French elections
May 4, 2007The elections in France demonstrate the power of faulty economic analysis, and more generalized problems with arithmetic, to shape ideas and possibly the future of not only a nation but a continent. The United States has...
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Immigrant workers face peril on the job
May 4, 2007Workers Correspondence“Immigrant Workers in Peril: Finding Solutions to the Health & Safety Crisis” brought some 200 labor and immigrant rights activists to the Murphy Institute for Labor, Community, & Policy Studies, City University of New York...
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