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Independent union of Merck workers joins OPEIU
June 27, 2012Affiliation with OPEIU will give more strength in representing members as part of the 108,000-member OPEIU and the support of the 13 million members of the AFL-CIO and organized labor
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After Court smackdown of Arizona, DREAMers speak out
June 27, 2012President Obama recently ordered an end to deportation of young people who have been brought to this country as children.
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Cuba struggles for food self-sufficiency
June 27, 2012Cuba is restructuring its economy. Agricultural changes are part of the process.
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Nuclear waste and other tales from London: Capitalism and the Olympics
June 26, 2012The Games have become a hopeful, yet often futile, source of economic revitalization and jobs for the host city or country, which instead often winds up in debt. Greece is case in point.
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Gay pride parades celebrate “landmark year”
June 26, 2012Under sunny skies and seas of rainbow flags, millions of Americans participated in gay pride parades across the country June 24, celebrating what many are calling a "landmark year" in advances for gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
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