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Teamsters drive card-check campaign at Overnite
July 7, 2006LAS VEGAS (PAI) — Reviving a campaign they suspended several years ago, the Teamsters will try to organize the 15,000 drivers for Overnite Transportation, but with a difference: they will do so via card-check. The card-check...
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Houston bakers win union
July 7, 2006Workers’ Correspondence The labor upsurge sweeping the U.S. and the world has not left Houston behind. On June 30 at about midnight, union representative Cesar Calderon announced that the Fiesta Mart Inc. bakery commissary workers here...
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Fur flies in Greyhound uniform fight
July 7, 2006Dozens of Greyhound workers, including a delegation from Memphis, above, rallied outside the Chicago Greyhound terminal June 28 to protest the company’s introduction of nonunion uniforms for drivers. The union opposes the lowering of standards of...
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School testing makes kids sick
July 7, 2006Workers’ CorrespondenceLast week our New York educator correspondent Maria Ortiz reported on three changes of toilet paper dispensers in school buildings while seats for special ed kids are being eliminated. This week she continues her on-the-ground...
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WORLD NOTES
July 7, 2006Somalia: Humanitarian crisis looms The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said 10,000 Somalis entered refugee camps in northeast Kenya between January and May because of armed conflict in Somalia. The camps had already taken in...
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