News
Unions help shift red states to blue
October 31, 2008A 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
October 30, 2008New 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
October 30, 2008In 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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World Notes
October 30, 2008Syria: U.S. raid kills 8 At a London press conference Oct. 27, Syria’s foreign minister Walid al-Moallem condemned a cross-border raid by four U.S. helicopters the previous day that killed at least eight civilians and wounded...
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Talks in Kansas City focus on immigration
October 29, 2008KANSAS CITY, Mo. - 'We can not talk about immigration, without talking about racism,' said Jane Guskin, co-author of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers, to a packed audience at the Guadeloupe Community Center here...
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