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  • From NY, DC 37 member comments on new contract: How can public workers defend gains?

    From NY, DC 37 member comments on new contract: How can public workers defend gains?

    August 4, 2006

    Workers’ Correspondence How can public workers win decent contracts, given government insistence that contracts be funded by givebacks? How can public workers defend their hard-won health care benefits and pensions? These questions are being discussed by...

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  • WORLD NOTES

    WORLD NOTES

    August 4, 2006

    Russia: Autoworkers build independent union An independent union is taking root at a 4-year-old Ford assembly plant on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Alexei Etmanov, a welder, attended a union conference in Brazil last year where...

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  • In Mexico, 3 million march for recount

    In Mexico, 3 million march for recount

    August 4, 2006

    MEXICO CITY — Amid widespread evidence of election fraud, public pressure continues to grow for Mexican authorities to recount the vote. Nearly 3 million people from every state of Mexico converged on Mexico City July 30...

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  • More calls for Iraq troop pullout

    More calls for Iraq troop pullout

    August 4, 2006 By Susan Webb

    Key congressional Democratic leaders have called on President Bush to begin pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of this year.

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  • Clean Energy Initiative gains support

    Clean Energy Initiative gains support

    August 4, 2006 By Joseph Hancock

    LOS ANGELES — Using a neighborhood gas station as a backdrop, Democratic candidate for governor Phil Angelides late last month endorsed Proposition 87, the “Clean Energy Initiative,” which will be on the ballot in November.

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