2009
Home child care providers are paid so little, theyre losing homes, cars
April 25, 2009LANSING, Mich. — They are 40,000 strong and they feed, clean, and teach Michigan’s young, in their most formative pre-school years. And for doing such an important job, what do they earn? “In Wayne County, we...
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May Day, a great time to discuss labor unity
April 24, 2009May Day is a great time to think about labor unity. It is not a static thing. Labor does not “arrive” at a final place called “unity.” Labor unity, like the broader fight for working class...
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LETTERS
April 24, 2009School has no heat! I opened the Denver Post to see a shivering child’s picture on the front page. She was from a small K-12 school in Silverton, Colo., where winter temperatures often drop below zero....
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May Day — Born in the USA
April 24, 2009Many of us never learned in school that May Day, the most widely celebrated holiday in the world, was born here in the USA. On May 1, 1886 Americans across this great land left their jobs...
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WORLDNOTES – Venezuela, Greece, Japan, Iraq and Cuba
April 24, 2009Venezuela: ALBA poses alternatives The 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) met April 15-17 in Venezuela. Member nations Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominica and Honduras fashioned a declaration aimed...
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