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From NY, DC 37 member comments on new contract: How can public workers defend gains?
August 4, 2006Workers’ Correspondence How can public workers win decent contracts, given government insistence that contracts be funded by givebacks? How can public workers defend their hard-won health care benefits and pensions? These questions are being discussed by...
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WORLD NOTES
August 4, 2006Russia: Autoworkers build independent union An independent union is taking root at a 4-year-old Ford assembly plant on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Alexei Etmanov, a welder, attended a union conference in Brazil last year where...
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In Mexico, 3 million march for recount
August 4, 2006MEXICO CITY — Amid widespread evidence of election fraud, public pressure continues to grow for Mexican authorities to recount the vote. Nearly 3 million people from every state of Mexico converged on Mexico City July 30...
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Detroit gears up for Labor Day
August 4, 2006Friends of the People’s Weekly World are planning a major distribution of the paper at Detroit’s Labor Day parade, which routinely draws tens of thousands of people. John Rummel, who is organizing the distribution, said that...
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Ohio labor charts new course
August 4, 2006CINCINNATI — Delegates to the Ohio AFL-CIO convention here last week expressed optimism and a strong fighting spirit. For the first time in decades, they see a real opportunity to replace the state’s corrupt Republican officeholders...
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