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A reality-based strategy for immigrant rights
September 1, 2006The immigrant rights movement is stronger than ever. The huge mass mobilizations to stop the harshly anti-immigrant HR 4437 won new allies for the immigrants and changed public perceptions in their favor. Though the Senate immigration...
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Need protection from unions? Bush Department of Labor races to rescue
September 1, 2006Anyone who feels that getting protection from their employers is taking away their “rights” will be relieved to learn that the United States Department of Labor, George W. Bush in charge, is racing to the rescue....
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Class struggle is a fact, not a theory
September 1, 2006Let me make something perfectly clear up front. Along with some powerful disagreements, I have a great deal of respect for Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees union. He and his union have made and...
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LETTERS
September 1, 2006Crossing guards for fairness I’ll send a donation when I get paid but here’s our problem in Chicago: People have wasted five to six years to be called for a job with the city. Many people...
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EDITORIAL: The power of unity
September 1, 2006On Sept. 5, 1882, some 10,000 workers paraded in New York City, organized by the Knights of Labor. That unpaid day off was the start of what later became Labor Day. Today, 104 years later, the...
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