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  • Editorial: Worlds worst rights abuser

    Editorial: Worlds worst rights abuser

    December 9, 2005

    We observe United Nations Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, with a sobering realization: In the opinion of hundreds of millions of people around the world, the Bush administration has become the worst human rights abuser of...

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  • Editorial: Right to organize is a human right

    Editorial: Right to organize is a human right

    December 9, 2005

    AFL-CIO President John Sweeney was greeted with a standing ovation when he told a crowd at a Quaker Meeting House in Philadelphia, Dec. 6, that union rights are human rights and workers everywhere must stand up...

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  • Dec. 10: Workers rights are human rights

    Dec. 10: Workers rights are human rights

    December 9, 2005

    A major new push for workers’ rights to form unions was kicked off this week at scores of events from Albuquerque to Orlando, leading up to International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. The right of workers...

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  • In Texas: Fish at your own risk

    In Texas: Fish at your own risk

    December 9, 2005

    On almost any rainless day, anglers may be observed fishing the waters of North Texas’ Trinity River. The pickup trucks, ice chests and laughing children running ahead of parents, and jockeying for a nice flat rock...

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  • UAW says Delphi strike inevitable:Rank-and-file solidarity shifts to high gear

    UAW says Delphi strike inevitable:Rank-and-file solidarity shifts to high gear

    December 9, 2005

    Workers’ Correspondence Several local leaders of the United Auto Workers issued a memo Dec. 2 attempting to inform the membership who had been waiting for weeks for some kind of response from the international union concerning...

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