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Organizing drives gain momentum: An interview with AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff
September 1, 2006WASHINGTON (PAI) — Joint organizing drives involving two or three unions, some of them in notoriously anti-union “right to work” states, will lead to wins for organized labor, says AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff. And, he...
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Autoworker walks across Ohio for health care
September 1, 2006Dave Pavlick doesn’t fit any of the tired old stereotypes of an activist. At age 53, a former Marine and active UAW member, Dave spent 30 years working as a corrections officer. A family man, he...
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Are guaranteed pensions a thing of the past?
September 1, 2006What the Republican-controlled federal government couldn’t do with Social Security may have been achieved with pensions, as Congress this month passed the biggest pension law changes in 30 years. The full impact is unclear, but certainly...
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Day laborers find hope in San Francisco program
September 1, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — Early on a chill, gray August morning, men seeking casual jobs pulled their jackets closer as they stood in little groups along the Mission District’s Cesar Chavez Street. There was something different about...
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Santorum vulnerable in hot Senate race
September 1, 2006PITTSBURGH — There’s already been a reported shoving match, negative TV ads, federal money flowing in, and it is only the “dog days” of August. What’s up? Pennsylvania’s hot Senate campaign. Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is...
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