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EDITORIAL: Poison pills
August 4, 2006Does the hard working woman refilling your coffee cup at the lunch counter look like she deserves a pay cut? That could be the outcome if the minimum wage bill, passed in the dead of the...
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November elections: This battle can be won
August 4, 2006Perhaps nothing underscores the significance of these midterm elections more than the reality of 2,500 U.S. soldiers killed and 18,000 maimed, needlessly, in Iraq, along with 100,000 Iraqi lives lost. The crisis in the Middle East...
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Millions hitting Medicare doughnut hole trap
August 4, 2006Seven million seniors will face dire health and financial consequences as they begin falling into Medicare Part D’s “doughnut hole,” warned several members of Congress at a July press conference. President Bush’s prescription drug plan creates...
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War and peace and the unions
August 4, 2006Workers’ Correspondence In the life of workers, no question has remained as crucial for determining the quality of life of working people as war and peace. In 21st-century America, the overriding desire of working people is...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
August 4, 2006Cheneyism spreads It’s been said that Republicans are dangerous to working people, but the threat seems to have reached a new level in Charleston, S.C. Two utility linemen working for South Carolina Electric and Gas were...
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