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Obama considers union leaders for administration posts
January 14, 2009The times they are a changing! As the most anti-labor president since Calvin Coolidge vacates the White House, the incoming administration is mulling over the names of labor leaders it is considering for many government slots....
Read morePoll shows growing support for Employee Free Choice Act
January 13, 2009A poll by Peter Hart Research, one of the nation’s most reputable polling outfits, shows that Americans now support passage of the Employee Free Choice act by a whopping 78 to 22 percent margin, a record...
Read moreThey have the gall
January 13, 2009The arrogance of attempts by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and George W. Bush to fool us is unbounded. Here’s why. In Colombia, thousands of indigenous people, peasants, unionists and leftists have been murdered or disappeared, mostly...
Read moreCuba stars at Brazil integration summit
January 13, 2009News analysis Two recent happenings are of signal importance for the future of Latin American politics. They are the 50th anniversary of Cuba’s socialist revolution on Jan. 1, 2009 and a gathering in Brazil on Dec....
Read more‘He asked for mercy and was given none’
January 13, 2009OAKLAND, Calif. — In the wake of the shooting of unarmed Oscar Grant III, 22, by Bay Area Rapid Transit policeman Johannes Mehserle early New Years morning, a broad movement is growing for far greater citizen...
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