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Community unites to save Winchester jobs

February 24, 2006

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “Winchester belongs in New Haven,” said toolmaker Larry Edwards at a community meeting here where Winchester workers, elected officials and Newhallville neighborhood residents joined forces to try to save over 140 union...

THIS WEEK IN LABOR

February 24, 2006

What’s obscene here? The federal government levied a larger fine — $550,000 — for the 2004 Super Bowl showing of Janet Jackson’s breast than it did for the deaths of 13 Alabama miners in a 2001...

Coke goes flat with Teamsters, students

February 24, 2006

“Our union brothers and sisters at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in Colombia have been threatened, kidnapped, tortured and murdered,” said Jim Hoffa, general president of the Teamsters union. Hoffa called for the company to negotiate a global...

Tax breaks for the wealthy

February 24, 2006 By Gene C. Gerard

On Jan. 1 Congress allowed two tax breaks that benefit the wealthy to become effective. The cuts eliminated current provisions of the tax code that limit the amount of personal exemptions and itemized deductions that Americans...

Fight not over for New Mexico minimum wage bill

February 24, 2006

As if it were a close basketball game, where one team is ahead by two or three points and is trying to run out the clock to keep the other team from scoring, New Mexico’s Republican...