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  • Detroit rally backs Obama economic recovery program

    Detroit rally backs Obama economic recovery program

    January 16, 2009 By John Rummel

    DETROIT — 2009 is beginning as those who voted for change imagined: grassroots groups are turning the hope that blossomed last November into action. In this hard-hit city, organizing is under way to change things from...

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  • Republic workers may get greener jobs

    Republic workers may get greener jobs

    January 15, 2009

    CHICAGO -- A leading company in the green window business, California-based Serious Materials, is in the final stages of working out a purchase agreement of Republic Windows and Doors assets, according to United Electrical Workers Local...

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  • Obama considers union leaders for administration posts

    Obama considers union leaders for administration posts

    January 15, 2009

    The times they are a changing! As the most anti-labor president since Calvin Coolidge vacates the White House, the incoming administration is mulling over the names of labor leaders it is considering for many government slots....

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  • Obama considers union leaders for administration posts

    Obama considers union leaders for administration posts

    January 14, 2009

    The times they are a changing! As the most anti-labor president since Calvin Coolidge vacates the White House, the incoming administration is mulling over the names of labor leaders it is considering for many government slots....

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  • Poll shows growing support for Employee Free Choice Act

    Poll shows growing support for Employee Free Choice Act

    January 13, 2009

    A poll by Peter Hart Research, one of the nation’s most reputable polling outfits, shows that Americans now support passage of the Employee Free Choice act by a whopping 78 to 22 percent margin, a record...

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