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  • Dead workers are not a business cost

    Dead workers are not a business cost

    September 15, 2006

    Our family was devastated when my brother, Gary Puleio, was killed at Meadville (Pa.) Redi-Mix Concrete in 2001. Gary had been employed there only three months as a cement truck driver. He fell 25 feet to...

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  • Business-backed DLC supports union-backed law

    Business-backed DLC supports union-backed law

    September 15, 2006

    WASHINGTON (PAI) —Showing the power of election-year politics to unify feuding factions, the mostly business-backed Democratic Leadership Council said on Sept. 6 that it formally backs the labor-pushed Employee Free Choice Act. In a press conference...

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  • Brooks swings and misses

    Brooks swings and misses

    September 15, 2006

    New York Times columnist David Brooks weighed in on the origins of inequality in his column recently. While he wants to assure readers that inequality is not a serious issue, and not caused by policy, he...

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  • Labor victory in California casino vote

    Labor victory in California casino vote

    September 15, 2006

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gambling interests could not muster enough State Assembly votes to ram through confirmation of a new Native American gambling casino agreement at the end of the 2006 California legislative session. The legislation would...

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  • WORLD NOTES

    WORLD NOTES

    September 15, 2006

    East Timor: Popular forces under the gun Alexander Downer, the Australian foreign minister, visited East Timor on Sept. 3 to pressure new Prime Minister Jose Ramos Horta to reverse the Fretilin Party’s domination of East Timor’s...

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