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  • Migrant workers in Greece wage historic strike

    Migrant workers in Greece wage historic strike

    May 29, 2008

    ATHENS — Migrant workers laboring in the strawberry fields of Nea Manolada, in Greece’s southern Peloponnese region, where 90 percent of the country’s strawberry production is concentrated, waged a historic strike last month that will pave...

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  • Theres a movement going on out there

    Theres a movement going on out there

    May 28, 2008

    These remarks, given at the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists convention in St. Louis, May 22, are reprinted from the AFL-CIO web site, www.aflcio.org. Arlene Holt Baker is AFL-CIO executive vice president. In the last eight...

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  • Workers Correspondence — After 13 weeks, a slap in the face

    Workers Correspondence — After 13 weeks, a slap in the face

    May 28, 2008

    I have written tons of letters and blogs the past few months but I have been so overwhelmed with this that I really wasn’t sure of my thoughts. I have been quite vocal and supportive of...

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  • Cuba supports press freedom

    Cuba supports press freedom

    May 28, 2008

    “You cannot kill truth by murdering journalists,” said Tubal Páez, president of the Journalists Union of Cuba. One hundred and fifty Cuban and South American journalists, ambassadors, politicians and foreign guests gathered at the Jose Marti...

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  • Non-union home builder feels the heat

    Non-union home builder feels the heat

    May 24, 2008

    BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — To wear a lemon costume in public you have to be pretty serious about your cause. So upset was Terry Templeton with the inferior construction of her Pulte-built home that the Arizona resident...

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