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Labor opposes Alito nomination
December 31, 2005WASHINGTON (PAI) — The nation’s two labor federations have formally joined the broad coalition of foes of GOP President George W. Bush’s nomination of federal appellate judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. AFL-CIO President...
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Annals of anti-Cuba terrorism
December 31, 2005News Analysis Five Cuban nationals came to Florida in the mid-1990s to defend their nation against terror. What they were trying to prevent is illustrated by the recently reported misdeeds of three men from Miami. Santiago...
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NYC transit workers moved MTA with 3-day strike
December 30, 2005Gains seen, membership to vote on contract NEW YORK—Surrounded by dozens of transit workers and his top officials, Roger Toussaint, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, announced Dec. 27, shortly after 11 p.m., the results...
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Urgent appeal to protest jailing of Iranian trade unionists
December 30, 2005Iran’s Tudeh Party announced last week that the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrested a number of leaders and key activists of the Tehran Public Bus Transportation Company Trade Union on Dec. 22-23....
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White-collar blues and the vanishing American dream
December 29, 2005Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream By Barbara Ehrenreich Henry Holt and Co., 2005, Hardcover, 237 pp., $24 After writing her book-length description of surviving on a minimum wage in “Nickel and...
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