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  • Airport screeners protest firings

    Airport screeners protest firings

    December 14, 2001

    SAN FRANCISCO – Baggage screeners at San Francisco and Oakland airports carried out an informational picketline protest at the terminals and handed out flyers asking for public support to keep their jobs.

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  • TWU mobilizes

    TWU mobilizes

    December 14, 2001

    NEW YORK – Local 100 Transport Workers Union (TWU) called a membership meeting Dec. 8, the first since its historic election victory one year ago. Over 4,000 members heard contract perspectives and discussed their ideas in...

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  • V&V Supremo stabs workers in the back

    V&V Supremo stabs workers in the back

    December 14, 2001

    CHICAGO – The infamous giant inflatable rat, a symbol of scabbing and corporate injustice, made an appearance here Dec. 4. The action came a week after V&V Supremo reneged on a deal with production workers who...

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  • 600 in Kentucky sign peace ad

    600 in Kentucky sign peace ad

    December 14, 2001

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. – More than 600 residents of the city and surrounding area have placed a paid advertisement in the Louisville Courier-Journal calling on elected officials and policy-makers to “end the violence and war” and “not...

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  • Youth groups call for national peace march

    Youth groups call for national peace march

    December 14, 2001

    WASHINGTON – The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition met here last weekend to begin plans for a national anti-war mobilization April 14 in the nation’s capital. Representing hundreds of thousands of students on hundreds of...

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