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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
May 11, 2007Union membership would double with EFCA Union membership in the U.S. would almost double from the current 12.4 percent of all workers to 22 percent if the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) were to become law,...
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Healthy planet a low priority for capitalism
May 11, 2007The capitalist class is incapable of reversing the destruction of humanity’s environment, for deep social, economic and political reasons. Environmental destruction, largely unmeasured, is comprehensive, extends far beyond “global warming” and increasingly threatens humanity’s existence. The...
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Consumers fight soaring electric rates
May 11, 2007CHICAGO — At the end of a 10-year rate freeze in Illinois, electric rates are projected to increase between 22 percent and 55 percent statewide. Customers, especially in southern Illinois, have already seen their bills double...
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WORLD NOTES
May 11, 2007Peru: Mineworkers strike over job rules About 40,000 Peru mineworkers from 33 of 74 unions in the industry went out on strike April 30 to demand an end to the outsourcing of jobs to subcontractors, a...
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Sarkozy seeks a more business-friendly France
May 11, 2007French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy plans to waste no time making France a friendlier place for business — and a less friendly place for unions and would-be immigrants — but first he must win control of parliament...
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