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Immigration agents impersonate OSHA officers
July 22, 2005Commentary Forty-eight immigrant workers were doing their best to follow the law when they showed up at what they were told was a mandatory OSHA training at their job site in Goldsboro, N.C. The immigrants, from...
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Rove: out of White House, into jail?
July 22, 2005WASHINGTON — It is an open question whether Karl Rove, deputy White House chief of staff, will keep out of jail, given the flood of evidence that he broke the law in identifying covert CIA operative...
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Ormet steelworkers fight for jobs, health care
July 22, 2005WOODSFIELD, Ohio — For eight months now, 1,300 steelworkers and their families in this rural area along the Ohio River have been courageously holding the line. In November, a bankruptcy court gave the go-ahead to Ormet...
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L.A. janitors take on big aerospace
July 22, 2005LOS ANGELES — Some 500 Los Angeles janitors are standing up to the nation’s giant aerospace corporations here. Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman corporations, the multibillion-dollar aerospace/military contractors, are pinching pennies when it comes to paying...
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Objection!!!: Supreme Court nominee seen as threat to women, labor, racial equality
July 22, 2005WASHINGTON — Hours after President George W. Bush nominated John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court, fighters for human rights bombarded the Senate with demands that they reject him on grounds he is an enemy of...
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