Labor
New unity moves highlight labor meet
March 3, 2006AFL-CIO charts election strategy, forms new partnership with NEA. SAN DIEGO — A rainbow seemed to appear amid the gloomy clouds of disunity hanging over the U.S. labor movement when the National Education Association and the...
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Mine safety could use a little more confrontation
February 24, 2006This is a sad time in the mining community, with so many recent tragedies. But it’s not enough to mourn. We also have to act. We need to remember that MSHA is three things. First, it’s...
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Community unites to save Winchester jobs
February 24, 2006NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “Winchester belongs in New Haven,” said toolmaker Larry Edwards at a community meeting here where Winchester workers, elected officials and Newhallville neighborhood residents joined forces to try to save over 140 union...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
February 24, 2006What’s obscene here? The federal government levied a larger fine — $550,000 — for the 2004 Super Bowl showing of Janet Jackson’s breast than it did for the deaths of 13 Alabama miners in a 2001...
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Fight not over for New Mexico minimum wage bill
February 24, 2006As if it were a close basketball game, where one team is ahead by two or three points and is trying to run out the clock to keep the other team from scoring, New Mexico’s Republican...
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