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This week in labor
May 26, 2006Meat packers win overtime pay If you work in a meat processing plant, your workday starts long before you step into your place on the line. Before you lash on your arm and hand protection, you’re...
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Connecticut PWW honors state AFL-CIO
May 26, 2006NEW HAVEN, Conn. — At the People’s Weekly World annual May Day celebration here, Connecticut AFL-CIO President John Olsen recalled that only two years ago Connecticut Labor Against the War was awarded the Connecticut PWW’s Newsmaker...
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New Yorks TWU Local 100 storms Albany
May 26, 2006ALBANY, N.Y. — Torrential rains couldn’t dampen the spirits of NYC transit workers as they boarded buses at locations across New York City May 16 for a trip to the state capital here. They presented Transport...
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Rank-and-filers demand Employee Free Choice Act
May 26, 2006WASHINGTON (PAI) — Bob Boyle was fired April 28 from Oesterling’s Sandblasting Co., just outside Butler, Pa. “I wanted a little better and safer place to work,” said the 17-year veteran of the plant. Boyle and...
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WORLDNOTES
May 26, 2006Nepal: People celebrate their victory Around the country late last week, people were celebrating the House of Representatives’ May 18 proclamation stripping King Gyanendra of his royal powers. The legislature ended Gyanendra’s control over the army,...
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