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BOOK REVIEW Studs Terkels Working soars to new life as graphic novel
June 9, 2009Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation Adapted by Harvey Pekar, edited by Paul Buhle NY/London: The New Press, 2009Studs Terkel was synonymous with the everyman, heart of the hoi polloi. In one of his last interviews...
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Weightlifters help warm US-Cuba relations
June 9, 2009CHICAGO – In another sign that relations are changing between the United States and Cuba, 10 Cuban weightlifters participated in the Pan American and Ibero-American Weightlifting championships here June 4-7. The team consisted of 8 men,...
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Obama’s pledge of 600,000 jobs warmly greeted
June 9, 2009WASHINGTON—President Obama’s promise June 8 to deliver 600,000 jobs this summer under his $787 billion stimulus package drew praise from organizations fighting to lower the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. In a statement from...
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The fall of GM new thinking needed
June 9, 2009DETROIT — It was a little more than 30 years ago that General Motors had 395,000 United Auto Workers hourly employees. Two years from now, GM will have 38,000 union workers, a decline of over 90...
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Specter tells labor: You’re gonna like my EFCA vote
June 9, 2009Congressional backers of the Employee Free Choice Act are closer than ever to the 60 Senators they need to break a planned Republican filibuster after Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) told a crowd of trade unionists in...
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