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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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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
September 1, 2006San Francisco, Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strikes Thousands of hotel workers in San Francisco and Chicago, members of Unite Here, have voted to authorize strikes if labor disputes are not settled soon with major...
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WORLD NOTES
September 1, 2006South Korea: Autoworkers win gains After a series of strikes culminating in a month long work stoppage, Hyundai’s South Korean autoworkers won a one-year 5.1 percent wage increase. They initially sought a 9.1 percent hike. In...
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