Labor
Immokalee slavery case called ‘beyond outrage’
September 20, 2008In a federal case, five members of a family in Immokalee, Fla., pleaded guilty Sept. 2 to enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan farm workers for more than two years. Slavery in the United States has been banned...
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Ohio labor: ‘Obama will be a great president’
September 18, 2008CLEVELAND — Fired up by three days of powerful and rousing speeches, 1,000 delegates and guests at the Ohio AFL-CIO 26th biennial convention here fanned out to the far corners of the state to campaign for...
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Obama helps recover workers pensions
September 13, 2008NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio — When steelworkers George Korcedes and Paul Santilli attended the event for Barark Obama here, they hoped that Obama would touch on the struggle for pensions that steelworkers and others are having. They...
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Who are they trying to kid?
September 13, 2008John McCain, while publicly distancing himself from President Bush, has presented an economic program that is a continuation of Bush’s policies. So an assessment of the administration’s record is in order. In his Aug. 30 radio...
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Labor says enough to GOP sideshows
September 13, 2008‘It’s not guns, gays and Palin — it’s the survival of U.S. workers’‘ A united labor movement this week fired several shots aimed at drawing attention to real election issues that the Republicans want to bury...
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