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EDITORIAL: Grim numbers and a chance for change
September 1, 2006A couple of economic reports grimly confirm what workers across the U.S. already know from their own experience. One report shows median hourly wages declining 2 percent since 2003, when adjusted for inflation, despite steady rises...
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Organizing drives gain momentum: An interview with AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff
September 1, 2006WASHINGTON (PAI) — Joint organizing drives involving two or three unions, some of them in notoriously anti-union “right to work” states, will lead to wins for organized labor, says AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff. And, he...
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Workers Correspondence
September 1, 2006Texas trucker looks at terrorist scare The Patriot Act. Let me make sure I have this right, that’s the plan passed by our loving, caring, government to protect us from the evil in the world. Well,...
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Autoworker walks across Ohio for health care
September 1, 2006Dave Pavlick doesn’t fit any of the tired old stereotypes of an activist. At age 53, a former Marine and active UAW member, Dave spent 30 years working as a corrections officer. A family man, he...
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Are guaranteed pensions a thing of the past?
September 1, 2006What the Republican-controlled federal government couldn’t do with Social Security may have been achieved with pensions, as Congress this month passed the biggest pension law changes in 30 years. The full impact is unclear, but certainly...
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