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  • EDITORIAL: Support the Northwest Airline strikers

    EDITORIAL: Support the Northwest Airline strikers

    August 26, 2005

    “If we had only stopped them at PATCO” became a common labor refrain in the union-busting years of the Reagan administration. Most in labor will now acknowledge that the lack of full labor solidarity was a...

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  • Cintas workers win environmental cleanup

    Cintas workers win environmental cleanup

    August 26, 2005

    BRANFORD, Conn. — In a groundbreaking agreement, the Cintas Corp. has signed a pact with the state of Connecticut to stop using detergents which contain ingredients known as APEs (alkyphenol ethoxylates). APEs are toxic to fish...

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  • Power struggle in Connecticut

    Power struggle in Connecticut

    August 26, 2005

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The New Haven Board of Aldermen held a fiery hearing on July 25 regarding a proposal for a special hospital zone which will include a $430 million Cancer Center at Yale New...

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  • LABOR UPDATE

    LABOR UPDATE

    August 26, 2005

    LABOR UPDATE Conyers to speak at Boston hearing on health care crisis The Greater Boston Labor Council and several local unions are among the more than 30 grassroots organizations sponsoring a hearing at Boston’s historic Faneuil...

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  • Plan to save labor unity

    Plan to save labor unity

    August 26, 2005

    AFL-CIO proposes solidarity charters for disaffiliated locals in CLCs and state federations WASHINGTON (PAI) — The AFL-CIO created a procedure to let locals from unions that left the federation — the Service Employees, Teamsters, United Food...

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