Labor
Worse than union-busting
November 3, 2006A television ad playing in Michigan this September seemed innocent enough: an adorable little girl in braids, a schoolroom filled to the brim with the latest colorful learning aids and enthusiastic students eager to learn. But...
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Inequalitys cause: loss of power
November 3, 2006Recent data show economists, not welders and machinists, need retraining Recently, there has been growing recognition of the enormous increase in U.S. income inequality that has occurred over the last 25 years, bringing back inequality levels...
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Oaxaca bleeds, but does not give up
November 3, 2006News Analysis On Oct. 29, the rightist lame duck president of Mexico, Vicente Fox Quezada, sent in 4,000 Federal Protective Police armed with tanks, helicopters, water cannons and high powered rifles to clear the southern city...
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Labor launches final push to oust Republican right
November 3, 2006‘Working families are very dissatisfied with the direction our country is going’Organized labor and its allies launched a massive, nationwide get-out-the-vote drive in the final days of the midterm election as polls showed many tight races...
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Labor sin fruto
October 27, 2006Julia Preston, reportera del diario The New York Times, escribiendo desde Washington, D.C., describe las peras pudriéndose en los árboles en el condado Lake de California, pues no hay mano de obra agrícola para cosecharlas. Rancheros...
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