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  • Labor moves to offense

    Labor moves to offense

    March 9, 2007

    Free Choice Act victory lays out bolder agenda on trade, health care and worker solidarityLAS VEGAS — The main focus of this week’s AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting was moving forward from the March 1 passage of...

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  • Privateers profit on GIs misery

    Privateers profit on GIs misery

    March 9, 2007

    Hearings expose privatization, red tape nightmare at Walter Reed WASHINGTON — Wounded soldiers and a soldier’s wife told a congressional hearing March 5 of their daily ordeal to get help at Walter Reed Army Medical Center,...

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  • EDITORIAL: Wall Street tumbles …

    EDITORIAL: Wall Street tumbles …

    March 2, 2007

    The question, “Are we heading into a recession?” has been hanging like a dark cloud over Wall Street since the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 416 points Feb. 27, the stock market’s worst day since Sept....

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  • Freedoms road includes the right to organize

    Freedoms road includes the right to organize

    March 2, 2007

    The continuing effort by the world’s largest meatpacking giant to keep out a union has been transformed by its workers into a drive in Congress to streamline the way all American workers win the right to...

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  • Labor making its voice heard

    Labor making its voice heard

    March 2, 2007

    Effects of organized labor’s drive for action on a working families agenda continued to be felt last week even though Congress was not in session. Among numerous indicators of labor’s new impact on the political scene...

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