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A perfect storm on pensions
October 15, 2004In an earlier column on the crisis gripping state employee pension funds, I mistakenly gave some comfort to private sector workers by alluding to pension protections provided by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
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N.Y.-Phila. transit workers are in the war together
October 15, 2004GRASSROOTS POWER New York City Transit Workers Union Local 100 members boarded buses bound for the presidential electoral battleground state of Pennsylvania Oct. 9. As part of the AFL-CIO’s Labor-to-Labor effort, union members are reaching out...
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Pages from workers lives
October 15, 2004During the Depression in the 1930s, too many people in the United States died of hunger. Millions of families were saved from this fate by getting jobs with the Works Project Administration (WPA). These were public...
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International notes
October 15, 2004Spain: U.S. troops won’t march on holiday Spain’s Defense Minister Jose Bono said last week that U.S. troops won’t march in Spain’s Oct. 12 national day parade this year. Instead, a French contingent will participate. Former...
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A witness to history: Venezuelas vote
October 15, 2004WASHINGTON — It started as a desire to witness history: Venezuela was on the eve of its first presidential recall referendum, and an epic struggle was being waged by the country’s workers and poor to defend...
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