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  • Teachers battle for bargaining rights

    Teachers battle for bargaining rights

    March 22, 2002

    CHICAGO – The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is leading a battle here to restore the bargaining rights of unions representing workers at the Chicago Board of Education and the City Colleges. The CTU is calling on...

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  • Mich. graduate students win contract

    Mich. graduate students win contract

    March 22, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

    ANN ARBOR, Mich. – After four months of intense negotiation and a good-faith contract extension voted on by the union membership, members of the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) voted by a wide margin to hold a...

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  • Enron workers find true friends

    Enron workers find true friends

    March 22, 2002

    HOUSTON – When Enron’s hall of mirrors came crashing down last December, more than 4,000 workers instantly lost their jobs, health care and pensions, while most of the top executives cashed in their stock and made...

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  • Steelworkers to Congress: protect health care

    Steelworkers to Congress: protect health care

    March 22, 2002 By Conn Hallinan

    PITTSBURGH – Over 85,000 retired LTV steelworkers and their families are facing the unthinkable: living without their earned and union-negotiated health care coverage. Despite the fact the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) has lobbied since 1997...

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  • Chvez: the man behind the holiday

    Chvez: the man behind the holiday

    March 22, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

    “We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers’ revolution, a revolution of the...

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