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  • Retirees take on AKSteel

    Retirees take on AKSteel

    October 17, 2002 By Rosita Johnson

    ROSEMONT, Ill. – Scores of active Indiana steelworkers and retired Chicago workers greeted executives and customers of AK (Armco-Kawasaki) Steel Corporation with an angry picket line, Oct. 8, demanding a contract.

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  • Frame-ups haunt Illinois GOP candidate

    Frame-ups haunt Illinois GOP candidate

    October 17, 2002

    Commentary The 1985 attempt by Jim Ryan, the Republican candidate for governor and Joe Birkett, the Republican candidate for Illinois attorney general, to frame two Latino men has become a red-hot issue in the Illinois elections....

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  • The socio-economic cost of Pax Americana

    The socio-economic cost of Pax Americana

    October 17, 2002 By David Eisenhower

    The U.S. is currently engaged in wars around the world; some big and about to get bigger; some small; some covert; some on the drawing board.

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  • In transit

    In transit

    October 17, 2002

    Worker’s correspondence The seven days between Sept. 19 and Sept. 26 will long be remembered as “turnaround days” at Local 100, Transport Workers Union. On September 19 the union, together with over 50 community organizations, held...

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  • Bahr to Texans: Big vote can elect Kirk to Senate

    Bahr to Texans: Big vote can elect Kirk to Senate

    October 17, 2002

    DALLAS – Communications Workers of America President Morton Bahr told a “get-out-the-vote” (GOTV) meeting here Oct. 3 that the Bush administration is the “most pro-business, anti-worker administration in history!” He was speaking to union officers and...

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