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Labor unity crucial to national health care fight
May 20, 2005The complexity of the profit-based U.S. health care system is well known. It is a patchwork quilt of corporations seeking to maximize their profits. For the nation’s unions, this has meant the necessity of dealing with...
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Industrial unions blast Bush, CAFTA
May 20, 2005WASHINGTON — “The destruction of manufacturing in this country is a crime,” charged John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO. “And the criminals are still walking around. They should be locked up.” Sweeney’s remarks summed up the...
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Social Security and the N.Y. Times
May 20, 2005Most Americans do not read The New York Times. But ideas expressed by its columnists make their way into mainstream discussions. Recently, two columnists weighed in with arguments related to Social Security.
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World Notes
May 20, 2005Haiti: Concern for Yvon Neptune The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has expressed grave concern over the health of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, jailed without charge since last June, the Haitian news agency AHP...
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Venezuela and Cuba build trade pact
May 20, 2005As the Bush administration bullies countries into signing “free trade” agreements — huge profit makers for corporations at the expense of all workers — Cuba and Venezuela signed a massive package of agreements that seek to...
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