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Minimum wage headed for ballot in New Mexico
August 12, 2005ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Living Wage Coalition here has collected 30,000 signatures on petitions to place a measure on the Oct. 4 ballot to increase the minimum wage in this city from $5.50 an hour to...
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Sweating in a union shop
August 12, 2005Pages from workers’ lives One summer in the 1930s I worked in a laundry in the Bronx. I probably worked there in the fall and winter too. But it was the summer I remember because it...
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Labor Update
August 12, 2005Two big wins for workers in North Carolina North Carolina ranks as the state in the U.S. with the lowest percentage of union members, but that status may be ripe for change if two recent organizing...
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World Notes
August 12, 2005India: Fired Honda workers reinstated A months-long labor protest ended with reinstatement of 57 fired workers at Honda Motors’ Gurgaon plant, IPS news service reported Aug. 3. The company also agreed to increase wages and said...
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Arabs in Israel drawn into Gaza pullout debate
August 12, 2005News Analysis Until last weekend Israel’s 1 million Palestinian citizens had stayed out of the debate about the country’s imminent disengagement from Gaza. “It’s not our story,” they said when pressed, “this is an entirely Jewish...
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