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GOP’s opposition to voting rule caused 4,000 FAA layoffs
August 1, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Republican congressional opposition to a rule covering union elections among airline and railroad workers led to a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration and the layoff of 4,000 FAA workers at midnight on July 22.
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Memphis 1968: We remember
April 3, 2003 By Fred Gaboury
An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. (See related story below)
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