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Chicagoans fight surging utility rates
October 6, 2006CHICAGO — With 57,000 households having their heat shut off, people unable to cook, no hot water for bathing, and the chill of fall setting in, low-income Chicagoans are looking to use the upcoming election for...
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Bound and dug in debt and glut
October 6, 2006Two stories roiled Massachusetts this summer. Seemingly unrelated, the two are connected by the contradictions between incalculable wealth and spreading poverty, a glut of capital and deepening individual and governmental debt, and extraordinary monopolization and growing...
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N.Y. transit strike assessed
October 6, 2006NEW YORK — Several hundred transit workers, labor activists and academics gathered Sept. 28 for a conference titled “Assessing the NYC Transit Strike of 2005.” In his welcoming remarks, Gregory Mantsios, director of CUNY’s Center for...
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WORLD NOTES
October 6, 2006Britain: Union revolt erupts at Labor Party meet Delegates at Britain’s Labor Party Conference overwhelmingly passed a motion Sept. 27 challenging a National Health Service contract with the giant German delivery company DHL that takes effect...
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In close vote, Lula goes to runoff
October 6, 2006SÃO PAOLO, Brazil — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the 60-year-old former factory worker and labor union leader, on Oct. 1 narrowly fell short of the majority vote needed to avoid a runoff election here....
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