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Gary teachers win nine-day strike
September 8, 2006GARY, Ind. — Meeting at the city’s largest high school on Sept. 1, 1,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 4 loudly and unanimously approved a new one-year contract that everyone agreed was a tremendous...
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Oil and defense CEOs hit the jackpot
September 8, 2006The $3 a gallon shelled out by customers at the pump has lined the pockets of top energy executives, according to a report released Aug. 29 by United for a Fair Economy and the Institute for...
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Latest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers
September 8, 2006For the last five months, job creation has failed to keep up with demand. But you’d never know that from most news stories.
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TWU update contract arbitration under way
September 8, 2006The latest phase in the ongoing struggle of New York City’s transit workers for a just contract began Aug. 4 with the opening of arbitration hearings. The arbitration procedure is going forward at the insistence of...
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WORLD NOTES
September 8, 2006Venezuela: Children’s heart hospital opens The “Dr. Gilberto Rodríguez Ochoa” children’s heart hospital is now a reality in Caracas. Venezuela’s health minister, Francisco Armada, sees the hospital as the apex of a national system to identify...
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