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Bushs money laundry-ing
April 16, 2004Six weeks after Cintas Corp. Chairman Richard T. Farmer co-hosted a $1.7 million fundraiser for George W. Bush in Cincinnati, Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed exempting industrial laundries like Cintas from rules that protect workers from...
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Foundry worker speaks
April 16, 2004Workers’ Correspondence Thank you for last week’s article captioned, “Twin Cities bus drivers fight to save health care.” Our April 10 solidarity rally at the state capital saw nearly 300 PWWs handed out with the headline...
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The Maestro of Fraud
April 16, 2004Bob Woodward called his biography of Alan Greenspan “Maestro” because the Federal Reserve chief is “a conductor, exquisitely attuned to every instrument in the political and economic orchestra,” according to the amazon.com review.
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LABOR UPDATE
April 16, 2004‘Right-to-work’ attacks card check A right-to-work group is challenging the legality of agreements negotiated by the United Auto Workers union with GM, Ford and Chrysler. The agreements in question allow the employees of the Big Three’s...
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International notes
April 16, 2004Japan: Protest deployment of U.S. aircraft carrier Peace organizations in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, are expressing their strong opposition to the Pentagon’s plans to deploy a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Yokosuka Port, Japan Press Weekly...
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