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  • This Week In Labor: September 29

    This Week In Labor: September 29

    September 28, 2007

    Labor takes aim at key 2008 races The AFL-CIO executive council has approved a political budget of more than $53 million to educate, mobilize and turn out voters this year and next. The resources will be...

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  • Housing activists urge end to rent-hike loophole

    Housing activists urge end to rent-hike loophole

    September 28, 2007

    NEW YORK — The state Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) held three simultaneous hearings this week in Manhattan, White Plains and Mineola on Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s proposal to close a loophole in the housing...

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  • U. Minn. workers to vote on contract

    U. Minn. workers to vote on contract

    September 28, 2007

    As union leaders emphasized that the struggle will continue, the AFSCME negotiating committee at the University of Minnesota decided last week to call off the union’s strike and submit the administration’s contract offer to the membership...

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  • Conn. AFL-CIO stresses worker unity

    Conn. AFL-CIO stresses worker unity

    September 28, 2007

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Defending immigrant rights, ending the war in Iraq, winning quality health care and organizing the unorganized topped the agenda of the 50th anniversary convention of the Connecticut AFL-CIO here last week. The...

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  • WORLD NOTES: September 29

    WORLD NOTES: September 29

    September 28, 2007

    Nepal: Maoists leave government Elections in Nepal for a constituent assembly, scheduled for Nov. 22, were uncertain after the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) withdrew Sept. 18 from an interim government set up last year when...

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