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  • Sacramento labor council supports dockers

    Sacramento labor council supports dockers

    August 9, 2002

    The Sacramento Central Labor Council adopted a resolution, July 16, protesting the intervention by Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s contract negotiations. Delegates to the Labor Council told David Ballsley...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    August 2, 2002

    Tax the rich The Washington district of the Communist Party has just finished putting together a tax reform brochure to help change the horrible tax structure we have here. It is the most regressive in the...

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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    August 2, 2002

    Steelworkers are fighting for their lives The Enron and WorldCom scandals expose the greed and even criminality of big business. But all the focus on crime in the corporate suites somewhat misses the bigger picture. It...

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  • Globalizing labor against Coca-Cola

    Globalizing labor against Coca-Cola

    August 1, 2002

    I first met Luis Adolfo Cardona in Bogota, Colombia. He was clearly traumatized. He told my Witness for Peace labor delegation that on December 5, 1996, he’d witnessed the murder of Isidro Segundo Gil inside a...

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  • Coal country celebrates miners rescue

    Coal country celebrates miners rescue

    August 1, 2002

    SIPESVILLE, Pa. – Men, women and children walk up the lane of the Arnold family dairy farm in a steady stream to pay homage to nine brave coal miners and the skill of the rescue team...

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