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Labor: Make police accountable for FTAA violence
October 21, 2006$8 million from homeland security funds spent to quell 2003 protest MIAMI (PAI) — Saying three years is too long to wait, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and Florida union leaders are demanding the state’s GOP Attorney...
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Northwest strikers to vote
October 21, 2006BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — The 14-month strike by 4,000 mechanics, cleaners and custodians at Northwest Airlines may end within 30 days if a majority of the workers, represented by the independent Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, ratify a...
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Missourians shifting away from GOP
October 21, 2006NewsAnalysis ST. LOUIS — With less than three weeks to go until the Nov. 7 midterm elections, many Republicans are defensively licking their wounds and trying to distance themselves from the Mark Foley scandal. Democrats, on...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
October 21, 2006North American labor solidarity Labor organizations in Mexico, Canada and the United States are joining together to file a formal charge against the U.S. under the North American Agreement for Labor Cooperation. NAALC is the labor...
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WORLD NOTES
October 21, 2006Liberia: Truth Commission starts work A Truth and Reconciliation Commission formed under Liberia’s August 2003 peace agreement has begun taking testimony of victims, witnesses and perpetrators of atrocities committed during the country’s 14-year civil war. Commission...
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