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Iranian trade unionists jailed
January 6, 2006Take Action Iran’s Tudeh Party announced that the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrested a number of leaders and key activists of the Tehran Public Bus Transportation Company Trade Union on Dec. 22-23....
Read more34,000 N.Y. transit workers score victory
January 6, 2006NEW YORK — Subway and bus workers here are widely seen as having scored a victory over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the first citywide transit strike in a quarter century. Defying the state’s Taylor Law,...
Read moreMiners’ deaths spark tears and anger: 208 safety violations, $16 mil. in profits at nonunion coal company
January 6, 2006TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. — Working hard, playing by the rules, living your faith and building community can be fatal when mining coal in the Sago Mine, cited last year over 200 times for safety violations and generating...
Read moreMarine refuser from 40 Years Ago faces court martial
January 5, 2006Jerry Texiero, 65, of Tarpon Springs, Fla., refused orders to deploy to Vietnam in July 1965. His decision was based on his opposition to U.S. intervention in Vietnam. For the next four decades, Texiero lived peacefully,...
Read moreA brotherly encounter: Fidel Castro and Evo Morales sign cooperation agreement
January 5, 2006Cuban President Fidel Castro and Bolivian president-elect Evo Morales signed a bilateral cooperation and solidarity agreement Friday evening in Havana. The accord covers primarily the areas of health care, education and sports. The visiting dignitary publicly...
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