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Ford workers call for green jobs
March 2, 2007ST. PAUL, Minn. (PAI) — Minnesota’s United Auto Workers are taking their fight to save jobs at the St. Paul Ford plant to the state Capitol, where proposed legislation would require the company to maintain the...
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Are you feelin the love yet?
March 2, 2007Commentary My fellow workers — are you feeling the love? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers have called for a march on Washington in support of workers’ rights! Has the class...
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Bush: Ill bring troops home on JetBlue
March 2, 2007No exact timetable, president says Under increased pressure to announce an exit strategy from Iraq, President George W. Bush revealed plans today to bring U.S. troops home on the budget airline JetBlue. Bush received praise for...
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Workers Correspondence
March 2, 2007To: Union supporters of HR 676 single-payer health care Re: Reintroduction of HR 676 in the 110th CongressSeveral readers forwarded this communication. On Jan. 24, 2007, Congressman John Conyers reintroduced HR 676, the single-payer National Health...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
March 2, 2007‘Worker Squeezinart’ Employees of the Albertsons supermarket chain in Los Angeles dramatized their struggles Feb. 22 with street theater. The skits featured “Fatcat Albertson” showing off his “Amazing Profit Machine” churning out money at the expense...
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