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EDITORIAL Big step backward
July 2, 2009The city of New Haven threw out a fire department promotions exam because it yielded results that did not promote equality. The city’s decision was in keeping with the need to guarantee the civil rights of...
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Who wants to kill the bees?
July 2, 2009Translated by Shelagh Rothero (l'Humanite) The bee may have inhabited the earth for more than 80 million years- long before Man-and has survived all the upheavals of our planet, but its present situation has become a...
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Central Asia union support Employee Free Choice Act
July 2, 2009Leaders of the global union for skills and services, (UNI) affiliates in Kyrgyzstan together with the UNI Moscow delivered a letter to the Ambassador of the USA to the Kyrgyz Republic in support of Free Choice...
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Commentary: Time to get to work, Al!
July 2, 2009MINNEAPOLIS - During the campaign, Minnesota’s newest U.S. Senator, Al Franken, said he would be an elected official in the tradition of the man who once held his seat, the late Paul Wellstone. It’s a commitment...
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Brazil frees 28,000 from slave labor
July 2, 2009(Prensa Latina) More than 28,000 Brazilians have been rescued from conditions of modern slavery since 2003, according to figures of the Department of Work Inspection (STI) of the Ministry of Work and Employment, informed sources here....
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