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  • Letters

    Letters

    May 3, 2002

    Unlike any other The PWW is like no other newspaper in the world. Powerful on world news coverage, along with beautifully written, thoughtful readers’ reactions to topics as diverse as smoking. This publication, always personal, always...

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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    May 3, 2002

    Another shot at unions We started to say “they’re at it again.” But that misses the point: they are still at it. 'They' are the Bush administration, whose attacks on the labor movement began even before...

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  • Epileptic, restrained by police, dies

    Epileptic, restrained by police, dies

    May 3, 2002

    BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Bodily pressure that impaired his breathing caused the death of a New York man who died in police custody here April 16, apparently while he was suffering an epileptic seizure, authorities said. Santiago...

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  • School bus drivers vote for union representation

    School bus drivers vote for union representation

    May 3, 2002

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. – School bus drivers at First Student voted overwhelmingly for union representation in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election April 12. Choosing union by a margin of 119-36, the workers, Latina and...

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  • Illinois AFL-CIO: One million strong, together as one

    Illinois AFL-CIO: One million strong, together as one

    May 3, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – With their placards bobbing like white caps on a sea of brightly colored T-shirts, 10,000 trade unionists flooded the street in front of the state capitol here in a “Solidarity Day” show of...

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