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Connecticut conference highlights Declaration of Human Rights anniversary
December 2, 2008NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A coalition of labor, peace, civil rights and human rights organizations in Connecticut will join in the international commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a...
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Drive for jobs gets boost from blue-green alliance
December 2, 2008The Blue-Green Alliance (BGA), founded by the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, has called on President-elect Barack Obama to enact a “Green New Deal” creating millions of federally-funded green jobs to head off a major...
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They auto know better: Fueling anti-union fires
December 2, 2008My local newspaper editor, as he does regularly, once again attacked unions as the problem in America. This is the same editor who once said 'all the laziest goof-offs and goldbricks in the newsroom' where he...
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Federal judges accept all-expense paid junkets to right-wing conferences
November 29, 2008Federal judges were attending corporation-sponsored conferences at posh watering holes, at times on the very subjects of cases they have pending before them, a prominent law school dean wrote in a 2008 book of essays. While...
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The case of the ticking Timex turkey
November 27, 2008Jobs come, jobs go. These days they just seem to be vanishing into the ether. But back when Nixon roamed the earth, I was young, earnest and curious about the lives of working-class Americans. So I...
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