News
Weve won on Social Security for now
October 21, 2005President Bush acknowledged earlier this month that his main domestic goal of “saving” Social Security was going nowhere. Regarding his privatization scheme, he said, “There seems to be a diminished appetite in the short term, but...
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Cultural notes
October 21, 2005‘North Country’ inspired by women miners When Josey Aimes (Academy Award winner Charlize Theron) returns to her hometown in northern Minnesota after a divorce, she needs a good job. A single mother with two children to...
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Letters
October 21, 2005Humor too subtle? I thoroughly enjoy the PWW, and read it regularly as well as distribute it among the people of my town. However, there is one matter that troubles me. Recently there was an article...
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Labor Update
October 21, 2005Sprint workers strike Almost 1,000 Sprint workers were forced to strike Oct. 10, the Communications Workers reported. Picket lines went up in Ocala, Fla., where CWA Local 3176 represents 500 workers, Bluff City, Tenn., where Local...
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Agreement near on local, state labor unity
October 21, 2005The struggle to preserve labor unity at state and local levels appeared to make some progress last week as the AFL-CIO and Change to Win federation reached an “agreement in principle” on implementing a “Solidarity Charter”...
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