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  • Sweating in a union shop

    Sweating in a union shop

    August 12, 2005

    Pages from workers’ lives One summer in the 1930s I worked in a laundry in the Bronx. I probably worked there in the fall and winter too. But it was the summer I remember because it...

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  • Labor Update

    Labor Update

    August 12, 2005

    Two big wins for workers in North Carolina North Carolina ranks as the state in the U.S. with the lowest percentage of union members, but that status may be ripe for change if two recent organizing...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    August 12, 2005

    India: Fired Honda workers reinstated A months-long labor protest ended with reinstatement of 57 fired workers at Honda Motors’ Gurgaon plant, IPS news service reported Aug. 3. The company also agreed to increase wages and said...

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  • Arabs in Israel drawn into Gaza pullout debate

    Arabs in Israel drawn into Gaza pullout debate

    August 12, 2005

    News Analysis Until last weekend Israel’s 1 million Palestinian citizens had stayed out of the debate about the country’s imminent disengagement from Gaza. “It’s not our story,” they said when pressed, “this is an entirely Jewish...

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  • Bush appoints transition coordinator for Cuba

    Bush appoints transition coordinator for Cuba

    August 12, 2005

    A 2004 report of President Bush’s “Commission for Assistance for a Free Cuba” called for escalating economic pressure on Cuba, funding internal opposition forces and developing mechanisms for privatizing the island’s enterprises in a post-socialist society....

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