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THIS WEEK IN LABOR

June 30, 2006

DOL promotes union busters The Bush administration’s Department of Labor is playing an active role in disseminating anti-union propaganda and has developed relationships with anti-union organizations, according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)....

Cheney to star in pro-global warming film

June 30, 2006

‘A Really Convenient Truth’ set for nationwide releaseIn an attempt to counteract the impact of former Vice President Al Gore’s cautionary film about global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Vice President Dick Cheney is starring in a...

Nurses sue hospitals: Conspiracy to hold down pay charged

June 30, 2006

As more and more nurses are being driven from their profession due to low wages, understaffing and overwork, a group of them filed class-action lawsuits last week against hospitals in Chicago, Memphis, San Antonio and Albany,...

WORLD NOTES

June 30, 2006

Afghanistan: U.S. air strikes rise sharply As part of a major military offensive against revived Taliban resistance in southern Afghanistan, as of mid-June U.S. forces had launched 240 air strikes there over a three-month period, more...

WHAT’S REALLY GOOD

June 30, 2006

Youth rally against big tobacco On June 21, in Sacramento, Calif., kids came from all over the northern part of the state to rally outside the downtown offices of Altria, the parent company of cigarette giant...