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Firms export jobs
November 5, 2004Book Review Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas By Lou Dobbs Warner Books, 2004 Hardcover, 208 pp., $19.95 Lou Dobbs is a television business journalist and, he says proudly, a lifelong Republican....
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International notes
November 5, 2004China: Private workplaces should be union The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) last week reiterated its demand that all private enterprises, including foreign-owned firms, comply with Chinese labor law and allow their workers to unionize....
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Cuba moves to be dollar-free
November 5, 2004Up against sharpened threats against Cuba’s revolution and a reduced flow of U.S. dollars to Cuba, the government there has acted dramatically to move towards a dollar-free domestic economy. The goal is to prioritize dollars for...
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Israeli CP denounces Sharons Gaza plan
November 5, 2004On the same day that the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, voted 67-45 to support Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan for “disengagement” from the Gaza Strip, the leader of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) denounced...
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Florida minimum wage amendment passes
November 5, 2004TAMPA, Fla. — One of the bright spots in Florida was the passage of the amendment for an increase in the state minimum wage, starting at $6.15 an hour and beginning six months after enactment.
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