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Autoworkers: Round 2
October 12, 2007Chrysler, UAW agree on tentative pact DETROIT — About 43,000 autoworkers streamed out of their workplaces Oct. 10 at Chrysler plants across the nation, launching a second nationwide auto strike within a two-week period, but this...
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Year of the Woman? Not in election coverage!
October 5, 2007How many elections can be hailed as “The Year of the Woman” before anything actually changes? Hint: no answer to this question exists yet. This year, it would seem that things should be different. A woman...
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New allies in health care fight
October 5, 2007Our nation’s health care crisis is in the public eye, and while Democratic presidential candidates, with the exception of Dennis Kucinich, are trying to appropriate the language of universal health care to win support for plans...
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Worry and anger as autoworkers study pact
October 5, 2007Many autoworkers, back after their strike against GM, are worried or angry about concessions the company insisted on in the new contract. United Auto Workers leaders, representing plants across the country, approved the tentative contract on...
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Children demand Health care, not warfare
October 5, 2007Huge coalition urges Congress to override SCHIP veto Children marched to the White House Oct. 2 pulling red wagons filled with petitions demanding that President Bush drop his plan to veto legislation passed by the Senate...
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