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  • Youth rock the vote  — early

    Youth rock the vote — early

    October 31, 2008

    CHICAGO – In an effort to promote participation in the presidential elections, over 100 youth and students came together here Oct. 28 during a Southwest side early voting rally in order to outline an agenda based...

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  • Unions help shift red states to blue

    Unions help shift red states to blue

    October 31, 2008

    A united labor movement, fighting for a U.S. economy that once again creates millions of good-paying jobs, is on the verge of making history. In the final days of the election countdown, an unprecedented labor mobilization...

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  • Unions help shift red states to blue

    Unions help shift red states to blue

    October 31, 2008

    A united labor movement, fighting for a U.S. economy that once again creates millions of good-paying jobs, is on the verge of making history. In the final days of the election countdown, an unprecedented labor mobilization...

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  • Merrilee Milstein Day puts working families needs first

    Merrilee Milstein Day puts working families needs first

    October 30, 2008 By Joelle Fishman

    New Hampshire attracted a lot of excitement in 2004 as the only state in the country to flip from red to blue in the presidential elections. There was jubilation that night as Kerry defeated Bush by...

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  • Smithfield drops lawsuit against union

    Smithfield drops lawsuit against union

    October 30, 2008

    In a victory for workers at the nation’s largest pork processing plant Smithfield Foods, located in Tar Heel, N.C., dropped a racketeering and extortion lawsuit against the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Oct. 27, with...

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