2009
LETTERS
May 29, 2009Spell it out I am a steelworker and subscribe to the People’s Weekly World. I like the paper a lot and post articles, like the ones on May Day, on our union bulletin board at work....
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Labor, allies urge ‘development bank’ to create jobs
May 29, 2009The decline in initial claims for jobless pay announced by the U.S. Labor Department this week was greeted as a “good sign” by Heidi Shierholz, a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute. But it only underlines...
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WORLDNOTES, Venezuela, Iraq, Myanmar, Spain, Nigeria, Cuba
May 29, 2009Venezuela: Nationalizing key industries In line with bringing strategic industries under state control, the Venezuelan government last week announced plans to nationalize a gas compression plant, the Guyana Steelmaking Complex, two iron producing facilities, a briquetted...
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Actors Equity launches bid for commemorative stamp
May 29, 2009Original source: Actors’ Equity has launched a nationwide campaign to become the first union honored with a U.S. postal stamp. The union is petitioning the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp commemorating the union’s 100th...
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Students don hard hats in unique school-trades partnership
May 29, 2009PHILADELPHIA — “We need the best people here. If you have a trade, a skill, no one can take that from you.” This was the advice Frank Marsh of Iron Workers Local 401 gave to the...
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