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  • Labor Update

    Labor Update

    June 3, 2005

    UAW endorses Sweeney The United Auto Workers has endorsed John Sweeney for re-election as president of the AFL-CIO, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger announced May 26. Sweeney, he said, “has actively encouraged a lively, open and much-needed...

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  • Group seeks ban of 20th century from Kansas school textbooks

    Group seeks ban of 20th century from Kansas school textbooks

    June 3, 2005

    Last century ‘Just a theory,’ activists say A political action group in the state of Kansas is applying pressure on the Kansas State Board of Education to ban any and all references to the 20th century...

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  • A closer look at price indexing, oil supplies

    A closer look at price indexing, oil supplies

    June 3, 2005

    David Kennell follows up on his April 2-8 article on Social Security: In my recent People Before Profits article, I predicted that the hidden “time bomb” in the Bush Commission’s assault on Social Security was a...

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  • Maryland gov vetoes minimum wage hike, Wal-Mart health care requirement

    Maryland gov vetoes minimum wage hike, Wal-Mart health care requirement

    June 3, 2005

    LANDOVER, Md. (PAI) — Union leaders in Maryland and nationally blasted GOP Gov. Robert Ehrlich for vetoing a health care bill that targeted Wal-Mart’s bad benefits. And, to insult to injury, Ehrlich — who raised thousands...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    June 3, 2005

    Bolivia: Marchers demand equity on oil proceeds La Paz remains on edge as street protests over the unjust distribution of the country’s oil and gas revenues entered their third week and escalated in intensity. Clashes between...

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