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National Clips
July 11, 2003PITTSBURGH, Penn.: Goodyear talks break off Negotiators for 19,000 active rubber workers and 22,000 retirees at Goodyear Rubber Company are not cutting their own throats. On June 28, leaders of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA)...
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Day laborers fight for justice
July 11, 2003CHICAGO – The Workers’ Center was up in two hours. The work was done July 2 by about 25 Latino immigrant day laborers who took up a collection, bought some two-by-fours and plywood, and nailed them...
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U.S. troops morale plummets in Iraq
July 11, 2003President Bush shocked many people last week when he responded to the increasing attacks on American troops in Iraq by saying, “My answer is, bring them on.” A day after his comic-book-style comment, 10 U.S. soldiers...
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Unemployment up, Black youth hardest hit
July 11, 2003Nothing in the June unemployment report – unemployment up 0.3 percent to 6.4 percent with 11 million workers either unemployed, forced to work part-time or too “discouraged” to look for non-existent jobs, and two million workers...
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Houston prepares for Freedom Ride
July 11, 2003According to organizer Maria Jimenez, the scene looked like an old-fashioned pep rally for Flag Day in Houston as the Wood Forest High School marching band warmed up the crowd in the huge Electrical Workers Union...
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