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TWU mobilizes

December 14, 2001

NEW YORK – Local 100 Transport Workers Union (TWU) called a membership meeting Dec. 8, the first since its historic election victory one year ago. Over 4,000 members heard contract perspectives and discussed their ideas in...

V&V Supremo stabs workers in the back

December 14, 2001

CHICAGO – The infamous giant inflatable rat, a symbol of scabbing and corporate injustice, made an appearance here Dec. 4. The action came a week after V&V Supremo reneged on a deal with production workers who...

600 in Kentucky sign peace ad

December 14, 2001

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – More than 600 residents of the city and surrounding area have placed a paid advertisement in the Louisville Courier-Journal calling on elected officials and policy-makers to “end the violence and war” and “not...

Youth groups call for national peace march

December 14, 2001

WASHINGTON – The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition met here last weekend to begin plans for a national anti-war mobilization April 14 in the nation’s capital. Representing hundreds of thousands of students on hundreds of...

Still fighting Fast Track

December 14, 2001 By Fred Gaboury

The 215-214 vote in the House of Representatives on Dec. 6 that gave President Bush “Fast Track” authority to negotiate trade agreements in secret is not the end of the world. As a matter of fact,...