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Immigrants rights are workers rights: Labor backs May 1 immigrant rights rally
April 28, 2006CHICAGO — In the city of May Day’s birth, labor unions pledged to support the May 1 immigrant rights rally here. WithHaymarket Square as a backdrop, the president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, Dennis Gannon,...
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Movement presses on in wake of raids, arrests
April 28, 2006CHICAGO — Imagine you are at work. You’re on a break getting food from the truck outside, when you are surrounded and arrested by federal agents. That’s what happened April 19 to 1,187 workers in some...
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Workers of the world uniting: Solidarity grows for Mexican workers
April 28, 2006Hundreds of Mexican federal and state police stormed the Sicartsa steel plant in western Michoacan, April 20, to remove striking steelworkers who had occupied the plant since April 2. The police opened fire on workers with...
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Remarks for the TWU Local 100 Rally, New York City
April 27, 2006This is an historic moment and the MTA should take note of our solidarity. We are all here — Denis Hughes, Randi Weingarten, Pat Lynch, Jim Little, my brothers Mike Fishman, Denis Rivera and Bruce Raynor,...
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Chicago passes law protecting immigrants
April 21, 2006The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance March 29 that forbids police and other city employees from participating in the witch-hunt against undocumented immigrants that has been whipped up by the Republican far right. Under the...
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