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Labor Update
June 17, 2005NLRB give OK to nurses’ firing Overruling a prior precedent, the National Labor Relations Board decided last year that the Alexandria (Minn.) Clinic could fire 22 members of the Minnesota Licensed Practical Nurses Association over what...
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IATSE members project a better image in NYC
June 17, 2005NEW YORK — Union projectionists held an informational picket in front of the invitation-only gala at the new Independent Film Channel (IFC) theater here June 9, after management broke off talks with their union and hired...
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GM cuts 25,000: Bad news for whole working class
June 17, 2005The action by General Motors in cutting 25,000 jobs — 22 percent of its U.S. workforce — spells big trouble for the U.S. working class.
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New Mexico AFL-CIO: Call for labor unity, bring the troops home
June 17, 2005ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The biennial convention of the New Mexico Federation of Labor met here June 10-11. The 163 delegates began their full agenda with a greeting by Executive Director Daniel Rivera. Next followed a memorial...
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World Notes
June 17, 2005Australia: Protest U.S.-Australian military exercise Peace, anti-nuclear, environment and anti-military campaigners from around Australia gathered June 10-12 for a Peace Convergence near the site of many of the exercises in joint U.S.-Australian military exercises involving 30,000...
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