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AFL-CIO launches major organizing effort

March 8, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

NEW ORLEANS – As has been the case ever since a team led by John Sweeney, Richard Trumka and Linda Chavez-Thompson assumed the leadership of the AFL-CIO in October 1995, organizing the unorganized was high on...

Unionists celebrate Intl Womens Day

March 8, 2002

CHICAGO – The Chicago Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) held its 23rd annual Florence Criley Awards Dinner here March 3 in celebration of International Women’s Day.

American Indians blast Bush energy plan

March 7, 2002

WASHINGTON – Backed up by Native American leaders from across the country, Alaska’s Gwich’in people assailed the Bush administration Feb. 11 for scheming to turn over to greedy oil companies their ancestral lands in the Arctic...

S. Korea rail workers strike

March 1, 2002

SEOUL, South Korea – Rail and power workers here ended a two-day strike Feb. 27. The stirke had shut down state-controlled railroad and electrical generation stations. The strikers were demanding fewer work hours and were opposing...

The recession: It aint over yet

March 1, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

The Bushies are having a helluva time getting things straight. On the one hand, they tell us the economy is recovering – that we are, as Lawrence Lindsey, chief White House economic advisor, said recently, at...