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  • Why young people should get involved with unions

    Why young people should get involved with unions

    April 26, 2008 By Clara Webb

    Scanning the room at my first teachers union event, I could see that I was one of the youngest teachers in attendance. It got me thinking about my generation and possible explanations for its lack of...

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  • Flag pins dont cover hypocrisy

    Flag pins dont cover hypocrisy

    April 26, 2008

    A disturbing study released last week by the RAND Corporation says about 300,000 service members and veterans — nearly one in five of the 1.6 million U.S. troops who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan —...

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  • May Day 2008

    May Day 2008

    April 26, 2008

    Workers of the world unite! That visionary call, issued 160 years ago, is being answered today in new and powerful ways. As capital has gone global, using workers around the world as pawns in the transnational...

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  • India fights soaring food prices

    India fights soaring food prices

    April 26, 2008 By Teresa Albano

    Food prices are soaring around the world. Long lines for rations of rice or wheat flour snake through cities and towns across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Food protests have rocked Haiti, Egypt, Senegal,...

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  • American Axle and the 2008 elections

    American Axle and the 2008 elections

    April 26, 2008 By John Rummel

    The workers at American Axle are doing all they can. Their cause is just, they are united in battle and unions from all over are coming to this plant on the Detroit-Hamtramck border to lend support....

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