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Threatened by free trade Engineers need unions too
November 13, 2003Workers’ Correspondence When I started out working as a mechanical engineer a bit over four decades ago, there was a widespread tendency for engineers to regard themselves as a special group above and unrelated to the...
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November 13, 2003Mozambique: Brazil pledges anti-HIV help Speaking in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, last week during his five-nation African tour, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged that his country would soon build a factory in Mozambique to...
Read moreCanadians fight to save public health care
November 13, 2003PHILADELPHIA – Doug Allan, an authority on the Canadian health care system and a longtime health researcher for one of Canada’s largest public employee unions, spoke to appreciative audiences in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Cambridge, Mass., this...
Read moreWorking Families victory in NYC vote
November 13, 2003NEW YORK – History was made here on Nov. 4 as Letitia James running on the Working Families Party line, swept the polls in a landslide as the first third-party candidate to be elected to City...
Read moreGrassroots victories give hope for 2004
November 13, 2003News Analysis Despite Republican claims of having locked up the South after winning governors’ races in Mississippi and Kentucky, the 2004 presidential race is far from over. In addition to polls reporting lack of confidence in...
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