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  • Letters

    Letters

    July 23, 2004

    No guns for kids NY Assembly Bill A1530 would lower the hunting age for children from 16 to 14 years old to kill bears and deer. It must be soundly defeated. It is inappropriate for the...

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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    July 23, 2004

    Falling wages After adjusting for inflation, workers’ real wages fell 1.1 percent in June on top of a 0.8 percent decline in April. Workers are falling further and further behind as the soaring cost of gasoline,...

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  • LABOR UPDATE

    LABOR UPDATE

    July 23, 2004

    Extremists vs. freedom to organize While labor and its congressional allies push legalization of card-check recognition of unions to represent workers, a group of radical right Republicans is pushing to outlaw card check. The Democrats, led...

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  • Labor organizes to protect 2004 vote

    Labor organizes to protect 2004 vote

    July 23, 2004

    MILWAUKEE – About 50 people gathered at the headquarters of the Milwaukee AFL-CIO County Labor Council July 10 for a four-hour training session on voter rights. The training was headed by Shiela Cochran, secretary-treasurer of the...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    July 16, 2004

    My soldier son opposes this war I have a son in the National Guard who was supposed to get out in June of this year, and there is a stop loss order for his unit just...

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