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Immigration raids escalate fight over rights
April 28, 2006Supporters of immigrant rights are reacting with anger to last week’s large-scale immigration raids, and calling for all raids and deportations to be stopped and for legislation legalizing undocumented workers to be supported. On April 19...
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April 28, 2006NYU grad students continue struggle for union After months of intense pressure by New York University including threats of deportation for immigrant students, most members of GSOC/UAW Local 2110, which represents graduate student employees of NYU,...
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Immigrants rights are workers rights: Labor backs May 1 immigrant rights rally
April 28, 2006CHICAGO — In the city of May Day’s birth, labor unions pledged to support the May 1 immigrant rights rally here. WithHaymarket Square as a backdrop, the president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, Dennis Gannon,...
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Movement presses on in wake of raids, arrests
April 28, 2006CHICAGO — Imagine you are at work. You’re on a break getting food from the truck outside, when you are surrounded and arrested by federal agents. That’s what happened April 19 to 1,187 workers in some...
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Workers of the world uniting: Solidarity grows for Mexican workers
April 28, 2006Hundreds of Mexican federal and state police stormed the Sicartsa steel plant in western Michoacan, April 20, to remove striking steelworkers who had occupied the plant since April 2. The police opened fire on workers with...
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