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Court rules against immigrant workers
April 5, 2002The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 March 27 that an undocumented worker fired for union activity has no recourse to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to get monetary compensation in the form of back pay....
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Just what is the Carlyle Group?
April 5, 2002The name “Carlyle Group” has been cropping up a lot lately in news stories in connection with arms deals and the powerful interests involved in making those deals. But little is known about the group –...
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Edison is not the solution
April 5, 2002The following is testimony delivered to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission on March 26. Good afternoon. My name is Dennis Barnebey. I am a 30-year veteran teacher with the School District of Philadelphia and a parent...
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Town Hall meet focuses on welfare reform
April 5, 2002NEW HAVEN, Conn. – “When the President is planning to increase the work requirement from 32 hours to 40 hours, he better also provide funding for child care,” Lissette Martinez told a Town Hall Meeting on...
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Im not a woman, Im a hell-raiser
April 5, 2002A leader, according to one woman, is a hell-raiser. By that definition, the poor Irish woman born Mary Harris, who became the childless widow Mary Jones, then self-transformed into the organizer Mother Jones, was just that...
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