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Editorial: Solidarity makes us strong
July 22, 2005As our nation’s labor movement convenes in Chicago, the crisis facing working families is in sharp relief. With Kodak axing 10,000 jobs, GM cleaving 25,000 families from paychecks, another 14,000 receiving pink slips from Hewlett-Packard and...
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Editorial: Criminals at large
July 22, 2005Our page 3 story highlights the longstanding slimy, criminal tactics of Bush-Cheney mastermind Karl Rove. It points out how Rove’s lying, cheating, backstabbing methods, dating back to the Nixon days, helped the ultra-right seize the pinnacles...
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The debates in labor: Lessons from our past
July 22, 2005Read the 1946 political action program of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and much of it sounds like it could have been written for today. It is a fighting program calling for a national health...
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CAFTA = pollution, hunger, job loss
July 22, 2005With a vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement expected in the House of Representative before the end of July, 10 activists in the Los Angeles Coalition Against CAFTA held a four-day hunger strike July...
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Medicare drug plan: Stingy benefits, high cost
July 22, 2005The Bush administration’s top health officials have hit the road to educate (sell) seniors on Medicare’s complex new drug benefit. A recent stop in New Hampshire was like a road show, complete with a bus painted...
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