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Labor Update
June 17, 2005NLRB give OK to nurses’ firing Overruling a prior precedent, the National Labor Relations Board decided last year that the Alexandria (Minn.) Clinic could fire 22 members of the Minnesota Licensed Practical Nurses Association over what...
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OAS stands up to U.S., supports Venezuela
June 17, 2005News Analysis “Madam Secretary, democracy cannot be imposed,” said Celso Amorim, Brazil’s foreign minister, in reply to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the 35th General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS). “Latin...
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Harilaos Florakis, Greek leader, dies
June 10, 2005The Communist Party of Greece announced that its honorary chairman, Harilaos Florakis, died May 22 at the age of nearly 91. Florakis was born July 20, 1914, in a village in Thessaly. At the age of...
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Crash into racism
June 10, 2005Movie review Crash Directed and co-written by Paul Haggis Rated R Distributed by Lions Gate Films In the beginning of “Crash,” the directorial debut of Paul Haggis (he won the Oscar for writing the screenplay for...
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Letters
June 10, 2005History lesson In the 1930s, the right of workers to join unions, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, minimum wages, and the 40-hour week were enacted into law after a fierce struggle in which the Communist Party USA,...
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