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  • 24,000 workers postpone strike for talks

    24,000 workers postpone strike for talks

    February 3, 2009

    A STRIKE by 24,000 US oil refinery workers was averted on Sunday after both sides had agreed to extend negotiations. Workers at refineries near New Orleans, Houston and Billings, Montana, will turn up for their shifts...

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  • World Social Forum: presidents for feminist socialism

    World Social Forum: presidents for feminist socialism

    February 2, 2009 By Mario Osava

    BELÉM, Brazil, Jan 30 (IPS) - 'True socialism is feminist,' and is already being built, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, standing next to three other South American presidents, all of them men, at a dialogue that...

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  • $3 Million for Super Bowl Ad $3 for workers who paid for it

    $3 Million for Super Bowl Ad $3 for workers who paid for it

    February 2, 2009

    Original source: Nearly 100 million football fans across the country will be tuning in to watch Bruce Springsteen belt out his trademark songs celebrating America’s workers during halftime at the Super Bowl this evening. They also...

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  • Iraqs Communists run lively campaign

    Iraqs Communists run lively campaign

    February 1, 2009

    On the final day of campaigning for Iraq’s provincial elections, a Communist Party motorcade waving banners and with loudspeakers blaring drove through Baghdad’s impoverished Sadr City district, known to many Iraqis as Thawra (revolution) City, Jan...

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  • To help economy recover, join a union

    To help economy recover, join a union

    January 31, 2009 By John Wojcik

    Rise in union membership reported The Labor Department reported Jan. 29 that the number of union members increased by 428,000 in 2008, hiking the total increase in union membership to 750,000 in the last two years.

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