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NewsAnalysis: Next steps in transit workers fightback
March 24, 2006Many New Yorkers were inspired by the strike of Transport Workers Union Local 100 against the efforts of the Metropolitan Transit Authority to cut back on workers’ pensions and health care. People understood that the two-tier...
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Struggle to save jobs at Winchester continues
March 24, 2006NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The struggle to save unionized manufacturing jobs and continue the 140-year production of Winchester sporting arms in New Haven has attracted national and international attention as the Belgian Herstal Group prepares to...
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Union drive crashes the party
March 24, 2006CHICAGO — Shirley Brown, 47, works very hard. Every day the 10-year veteran housekeeper with Resurrection Health Care Westlake Hospital here pushes her supply cart through the hospital, mopping, wiping and scrubbing, cleaning waiting rooms, patient-care...
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Perfect pension storm revisited
March 24, 2006Some time ago this paper surveyed the approach of a “perfect storm” of economic assaults on the U.S. private pension system. Not entirely unmindful of the weather, the U.S. Republican-controlled Congress, under the leadership of Sen....
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
March 24, 2006Chalk one up to solidarity At least at the local level, the nation’s labor movement is as united today as it was eight months ago, before the formation of a competing labor federation threatened the demise...
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