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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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S. Africas workers strike for justice, jobs
May 26, 2006Earlier this month the people of South Africa celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first democratic constitution. The dismantling of the oppressive apartheid regime in the early 1990s, and the end of dominance by a privileged...
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Cuban medical school is unique
May 26, 2006The Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba, is no ordinary medical school. The mission of the LASM is to train students who come from medically underserved populations and then to return them as doctors...
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