News
Health care piracy at Treasure Island
March 26, 2004CHICAGO – Grocery workers at two local supermarket chains here are appealing to consumers to boycott their stores in support of their battle to hold on to health care and pension benefits. Hand-billing shoppers in front...
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Show us the jobs bus on eight state tour
March 26, 2004Fifty-one people with 51 stories of their jobless dilemmas hit the road March 24 on an AFL-CIO-sponsored “Show us the jobs” bus tour.
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LABOR UPDATE
March 26, 2004USWA and PACE forge ‘strategic alliance” Formalizing cooperative activities already underway, the executive boards of United Steelworkers of America and Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy International Union (PACE) agreed to combine forces to conduct joint activities....
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International notes
March 26, 2004Colombia: Coke workers on hunger strike On March 15 Coca-Cola union workers in Colombia began a hunger strike in front of Coke bottling plants in several cities, including Barrancabermeja, Bogota, Cali, Cartagena, and Medellin. “If we...
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Israel condemned for assassination of Hamas leader
March 26, 2004The Israeli government’s assassination of Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin has ignited a firestorm of outrage and turmoil throughout the Middle East and far beyond. The blind, quadriplegic, and wheelchair-bound Yassin, 67, was...
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