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Prosperity just around the corner?
August 27, 2004“The economy is strong, and getting stronger,” says President Bush, but an AP poll reports that only 10 percent of households making less than $50,000 a year think their economic situation is strong.
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Union Yes! at America West
August 27, 2004After many years and multiple attempts, the 3,100 customer service representatives (CSRs) at America West Airlines (AWA) won the right to union representation by the Teamsters. Fifty-four percent, or 1,679, of the CSRs voted “yes,” the...
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International notes
August 27, 2004Colombia: ‘Special zone’ = less security The Colombian government calls part of the province of Arauca, where 30 trade unionists have been killed so far this year, a “rehabilitation and consolidation zone.” But for the region,...
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Germans on the march against reforms
August 27, 2004BERLIN — People are suddenly on the march again. The government’s “reform package” known as “Agenda 2010,” but especially its cruelest item, the jobless reform law, has shaken German working people and especially the jobless out...
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Israel says no help for hunger strikers
August 27, 2004The declaration by the Israeli Ministry of Health Aug. 19 that it would deny medical attention in Israeli hospitals to Palestinian prisoners on a liquids-only hunger strike drew a scathing denunciation from Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, president...
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