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Auto task force should worry about workers shrinking wallets
March 25, 2009DETROIT — As U.S. auto companies work to meet the government’s March 31 deadline for showing progress in their restructuring and turnaround plans, the pressure on workers and their union to accept concessions has been intense....
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Obama admin. moves to curb mountaintop mining impacts
March 25, 2009With massive water pollution from coal mining practices much in the news in recent months, the Obama administration this week asked the US Army Corps of Engineers to scrutinize coal mining practices such as mountaintop mining....
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Small business owners: Employee free choice good for our workers and us
March 25, 2009Corporate leaders are making a lot of unfounded claims that the Employee Free Choice Act would be bad for small businesses. But when you ask many small business owners and entrepreneurs across the country, you’ll hear...
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Veils of secrecy lifting in Washington
March 25, 2009NEW YORK, Mar 23 (IPS) - As President Barack Obama’s Justice Department issued sweeping new guidelines to reverse the secrecy policies of former president George W. Bush, a federal judge ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to...
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Inside & outside NE health summit: Hundreds demand fundamental reform
March 25, 2009BURLINGTON, Vt. — Two different groups of people gathered here March 17 to talk about solving the health care crisis. Inside the Davis Center at the University of Vermont were some 400 people invited to the...
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