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Dont steal the big box ordinance
September 8, 2006CHICAGO — Despite a monthlong million-dollar campaign to scare residents into opposing the “big box” living wage ordinance passed by the City Council July 26, a new poll of Chicago voters shows overwhelming support for the...
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LETTERS
September 8, 2006Action alert! On September 10th and 11th, ABC is planning to air a “docu-drama” called “Path to 9/11,” which is being billed as “an objective telling of the events of 9/11.” In fact, the film was...
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Womens groups protest plan to downsize Womens Bureau
September 8, 2006Several leading women’s organizations, including the Coalition of Labor Union Women, are vigorously protesting the latest scheme by GOP President George W. Bush and his Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to downsize and outsource much of her...
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Gary teachers win nine-day strike
September 8, 2006GARY, Ind. — Meeting at the city’s largest high school on Sept. 1, 1,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 4 loudly and unanimously approved a new one-year contract that everyone agreed was a tremendous...
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Latest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers
September 8, 2006For the last five months, job creation has failed to keep up with demand. But you’d never know that from most news stories.
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