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Minimum wage to loom large in Ohio vote
June 9, 2006A variety of progressive, issue-oriented forces are at work in the Ohio elections, trying to build a political movement capable of ousting the ultra-right from control of state government in November. Industrial unions, for example, are...
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Right to organize gains ground in Congress
June 9, 2006Fifty-seven million Americans say they’d join a union if they had a chance. And due to a hard-fought, close to the ground campaign, legislation to give them that right is now within striking distance of victory....
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Rally fights deportation: Keep families together
June 9, 2006CHICAGO — Over 100 community supporters, including religious leaders and elected officials, rallied here in front of the immigration court building June 1 as about two-dozen former employees of IFCO Systems, who were arrested as part...
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$5.15 an hour wont cut it: Campaigns to raise the minimum wage sweep the country
June 9, 2006Because Congress has refused to raise the $5.15 an hour minimum wage since 1997, coalitions of labor, religious and community groups are organizing voters to do so, one state at a time. So far 21 states...
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Cubans jailed in U.S. as spies are hailed at home as heroes
June 4, 2006HAVANA—European tourists here send home postcards with stamps bearing the images of five faces, known simply as los muchachos (the young men) or los cinco (the five). The faces, usually surrounded by billowing Cuban flags, stare...
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