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Workers Uniting history in the making
July 12, 2008The United Steelworkers union made history with its convention just held in Las Vegas. That’s history with a capital H. The kind of history that can forever change labor and our country. The kind of history...
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AMA apologizes for history of racial inequality
July 12, 2008CHICAGO, Ill. - The American Medical Association (AMA) today [July 10, 2008] apologizes for its past history of racial inequality toward African-American physicians, and shares its current efforts to increase the ranks of minority physicians and...
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WORLD NOTES: July 12
July 11, 2008Egypt: ‘Emergency’ rule goes on Parliament voted June 30 to extend emergency rule, in place since 1981, for two more years. In 2006, President Hosni Mubarak’s government promised that after two years of discussion new antiterrorism...
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Obama, McCain kick off campaign for Latino vote
July 11, 2008Candidates show stark differences on economy John McCain and Barack Obama kicked off their campaigns to reach the Latino community June 28, providing a unique comparative view of their sharply different philosophies and programs. The two...
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Connecticut labor gears up for big election drive
July 11, 2008HARTFORD, Conn. — Lightening storms may have kept national AFL-CIO President John Sweeney’s plane from landing here in time for the Connecticut AFL-CIO convention June 23, but nothing could stop the delegates’ determination to prepare for...
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