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  • EDITORIAL: Change policy, not just faces

    EDITORIAL: Change policy, not just faces

    November 17, 2006

    When President Bush announced the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a key architect and executor of the disastrous and criminal U.S. war on Iraq, it was more good news on top of the Nov. 7...

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  • Stem cell amendment win provides lessons

    Stem cell amendment win provides lessons

    November 17, 2006

    Missouri voters narrowly approved Amendment 2, 51 percent to 49 percent, making Missouri the first state to amend its constitution to protect stem cell research and therapies allowed by federal law. At issue was the use...

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  • THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    November 17, 2006

    Postal workers protest service cuts Bundled up in winter coats and hats, Postal Workers and supporters marched outside the downtown Minneapolis post office on Nov. 2 to protest plans to close several facilities and reduce service....

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  • Workers Correspondence

    Workers Correspondence

    November 17, 2006

    Contract gains for New York teachers In November 2005 New York City’s United Federation of Teachers (UFT) ratified a contract that contained a number of givebacks to the city. These included a longer workday, a longer...

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  • Labor eyes quick passage of new organizing law

    Labor eyes quick passage of new organizing law

    November 17, 2006

    WASHINGTON (PAI) — The new Democratic-run House in the 110th Congress will pass the Employee Free Choice Act, AFL-CIO Legislative Director Bill Samuel said in a Nov. 8 interview. “It will be nice to be playing...

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