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Labor board leaves workers in twilight zone
November 10, 2006The U.S. Department of Labor’s web site refers to the National Labor Relations Act, passed in 1935, as “labor’s Magna Carta,” extolling the fact that the act guarantees “workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.”...
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LETTERS
November 10, 2006Beat ’em at their own game With regard to your recent article on the NLRB decision that nurses are supervisors (PWW 10/7-13), I have this story to tell. In the early fifties my father, who headed...
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EDITORIAL: Hail victory, move forward
November 10, 2006It was about Iraq, corruption, economic insecurity and the failure of government during Katrina. And no matter what name was on the ballot, it was about George W. Bush and the disastrous policies of the Republican...
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Education is a right: New Yorkers fight for fair funding
November 10, 2006NEW YORK CITY — In 2001, New York State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse ruled that New York State was in violation of its own Constitution which guarantees every child the right to a “sound, basic...
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Workers not at fault in BPs deadly blast
November 10, 2006Chemical board blames corporate cost-cutting Agreeing with the Steelworkers union and strongly rejecting company claims of workers’ guilt, the federal government’s chemical safety investigations board threw the book at British Petroleum on Oct. 31 over the...
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