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  • Workers flush restrictive bathroom policy

    Workers flush restrictive bathroom policy

    September 13, 2002 By Hilda Fort

    Workers at the Jim Beam Distillery have backed the company down from its policy that restricted toilet breaks for workers on the bottling line at its Bullitt County, Ky., bourbon distillery. The workers and union there...

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  • Black farmers picket USDA

    Black farmers picket USDA

    September 13, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

    About 100 African-American farmers picketed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington Aug. 22 to protest stalling on delivery of restitution payments for thousands of Black farmers who were denied government crop loans because they...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    September 13, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

    Britain: Broad opposition to Iraq strike / Kenya: Police attack protesting teachers / Indonesia: Court orders trade union leaders to pay $2.34 million / France: Union says 35-hour workweek at risk

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  • Corporate crime goes unpunished in Bhopal

    Corporate crime goes unpunished in Bhopal

    September 13, 2002

    NEW DELHI – It started in the middle of the night on Dec. 2, 1984. That was the fateful night when poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) spread as a deadly blanket over the city from the rusty...

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  • Cleveland: Put miners back to work!

    Cleveland: Put miners back to work!

    September 13, 2002

    CLEVELAND – The Cleveland City Council, at its Sept. 9 meeting, unanimously passed a resolution demanding that “Cargill Deicing Technology restore former strikers to their rightful jobs”, and urging “the Mayor of the City of Cleveland...

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