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LABOR UPDATE
April 9, 2004No security for IMF security guards The International Monetary Fund’s private security contractor, Wackenhut Corp., has suspended two employees who are leading an effort to form a union. A majority of security officers at the IMF...
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Nightmare on April 15
April 9, 2004Many years ago I heard the theory expressed that taxation was a new form of exploitation of the working class that had reached confiscatory levels. I never imagined that one day this would be the horrific...
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Starving Section 8 housing to fund war
April 9, 2004SEATTLE – The new Bush budget would devastate the Section 8 housing program, the National Low-Income Housing Coalition has warned. The slash in funding for housing and other domestic programs is coupled in the Bush budget...
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Weirton steelworkers accept new contract
April 9, 2004Union workers at the bankrupt Weirton Steel Corporation in Weirton, W.Va., voted 2,104-231 in favor of accepting a labor contract offered by the mill’s prospective buyer, ISG, according to a report from Associated Press. The five-year...
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International notes
April 9, 2004Haiti: Executions continue Supporters of forcibly deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide continue to be executed, death-squad style, despite the presence of U.S. and French occupation troops. Human rights activists say most killings are by the heavily armed...
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