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  • Talbert Trailer workers march for justice

    Talbert Trailer workers march for justice

    August 13, 2004

    Rensselaer, Ind. — “Hands off our health care!” and “No justice, no peace,” echoed through the streets here July 31 as hundreds of steelworkers marched to protest the lockout of the Talbert Trailer workers. Talbert workers...

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  • Minimum wage outrage

    Minimum wage outrage

    August 13, 2004 By Art Perlo

    The federal minimum legal wage is $5.15 per hour. That stinks! A full-time, minimum wage worker receives only $10,300 per year before taxes. By the end of this year, the value of the minimum wage will...

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  • NYC Labor Council says, Bush must go!

    NYC Labor Council says, Bush must go!

    August 13, 2004

    NEW YORK — On the morning of Aug. 2, representatives of New York City labor turned out for a press conference in front of Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican National Convention later this month....

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  • International notes

    International notes

    August 13, 2004

    Canada: Wal-Mart workers win union Workers at a Wal-Mart store in Jonquiere, Quebec, have won the right to a union, after the Quebec Labour Relations Board ruled Aug. 2 to grant them union certification with the...

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  • Cubans assail Bush plans for takeover

    Cubans assail Bush plans for takeover

    August 13, 2004

    HAVANA — Speaking July 18 to 300 visiting North Americans, Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba’s National Assembly, discussed the recently released report of Bush’s “Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba.” Alarcon reviewed sections of the...

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