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Quecreek miners demand answers

October 19, 2002 By Conn Hallinan

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – With thousands of lives at stake and a state honeycombed with abandoned coal mines, Quecreek miners, who electrified the nation when they survived 78 hours trapped in a flooded mine, scored a small...

Romney no friend of working people

October 19, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

BOSTON – The Republican Party is pulling out all the stops in an effort to elect Mitt Romney as Massachusetts governor. Within a two-week period, both President George W. Bush and his father have made campaign...

Janitors continue fight

October 19, 2002

BOSTON – Janitors in the Boston area entered their third week of striking the office building cleaning contractors with continued picket lines, marches, demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience to call attention to their plight and...

ILWU survival at stake in Nov. 5 vote

October 19, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

LOS ANGELES – The West Coast waterfront battle is moving beyond the docks to the Nov. 5 elections as the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and giant retailers make clear their aim to destroy the International Longshore...

Looking a gift horse in the mouth

October 18, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

When Sikorsky Aircraft landed a contract to build Comanche helicopters for the Army, Connecticut’s media headlined the 500 jobs it would bring to Bridgeport. In small print, they revealed that there would only be 150 new...