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  • Homeland Security doesnt mean union busting

    Homeland Security doesnt mean union busting

    June 21, 2002

    Dangerous men like John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge have been loosed on the American people. They are the bent personalities that front the most sweeping attack on civil and democratic rights since the McCarthy red scare...

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  • AKSteel workers win victory on tax abatement

    AKSteel workers win victory on tax abatement

    June 21, 2002

    Locked out Armco-Kawasaki (AK) steelworkers in Mansfield, Ohio won a significant victory last week when the city council voted against renegotiaing with AKSteel on its 1995 tax-abatement agreement with the city. Locked-out members of United Steelworkers...

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  • Who is really in charge of national security?

    Who is really in charge of national security?

    June 21, 2002

    Taking a cue from Ronald Reagan’s reign, George W. is looking into ways to privatize the air traffic controllers. Ronald Reagan started his anti-labor presidency by busting the air traffic controllers’ union, PATCO.

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  • Jury rules against FBI, Oakland Police

    Jury rules against FBI, Oakland Police

    June 21, 2002

    OAKLAND – It took 11 years and a five-week trial, but a jury of eight women and two men meeting in the Federal Court House here, unanimously decided that the FBI and the Oakland Police Department...

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  • Ridge speaks to Mayors’ Conference

    Ridge speaks to Mayors’ Conference

    June 21, 2002 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

    MADISON – At the annual summit of the U.S. Conference of Mayors here June 17, homeland security czar Tom Ridge’s appearance was highlighted in materials both promoting and disparaging the summit.

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