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Freedoms road includes the right to organize
March 2, 2007The continuing effort by the world’s largest meatpacking giant to keep out a union has been transformed by its workers into a drive in Congress to streamline the way all American workers win the right to...
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Ford workers call for green jobs
March 2, 2007ST. PAUL, Minn. (PAI) — Minnesota’s United Auto Workers are taking their fight to save jobs at the St. Paul Ford plant to the state Capitol, where proposed legislation would require the company to maintain the...
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Workers Correspondence
March 2, 2007To: Union supporters of HR 676 single-payer health care Re: Reintroduction of HR 676 in the 110th CongressSeveral readers forwarded this communication. On Jan. 24, 2007, Congressman John Conyers reintroduced HR 676, the single-payer National Health...
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Times are achanging: Cincinnati says no to surge
March 2, 2007CINCINNATI, Ohio — This traditionally conservative Ohio city voted in January to express its “deep concern” about Bush’s plan to send an additional 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq. While stating strong support for the soldiers fighting...
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Labor making its voice heard
March 2, 2007Effects of organized labor’s drive for action on a working families agenda continued to be felt last week even though Congress was not in session. Among numerous indicators of labor’s new impact on the political scene...
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