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Service workers hungry themselves, fight to feed kids
July 15, 2009Food service workers are in Washington to demand improvement of the 63-year-old School Lunch Program that feeds 30 million children every day. “A lot of these kids are not getting breakfast in the morning and are...
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Building labor solidarity with the Honduran people
July 14, 2009Dan Kovalik, United Steelworkers Union (USW) senior associate general counsel, just returned Friday from a four day trip to Honduras. He went with a delegation of seven people to get a firsthand look at the situation...
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Obama reported firm in his support for EFCA
July 14, 2009A top aide to one of the union leaders present at a White House meeting with President Obama today said the president remains firmly committed to passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, the bill that...
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Senators praise Sotomayors empathy for poor, voiceless
July 14, 2009WASHINGTON — With Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sitting in the witness chair, Democratic senators praised her wide-ranging judicial experience and her empathy for working people and the oppressed. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings on...
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Minority unemployment debated in NY mayor’s race
July 14, 2009NEW YORK—William, an African American in his twenties from Brooklyn, works the trains. He goes car to car, selling candy and hustling money through gambling. While most New Yorkers are familiar with street hustlers who bet...
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