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Bush readies Navy to act against longshore union
September 6, 2002LOS ANGELES – Thousands of unionists, AFL-CIO leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and elected officials voiced solidarity with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) at Labor Day events here as the dockers announced a Bush...
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Lawmakers oppose Iraq war
September 6, 2002CHICAGO – With the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks upon us, lawmakers are speaking out against the Bush-Cheney plan to invade Iraq in the name of the “war on terrorism.”
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Earth summit hits poverty, pollution
September 6, 2002JOHANNESBURG – Delegates to the third Earth Summit reached a minimal agreement on policies aimed at lifting four billion people from poverty and curbing threats to the global environment. However, a handful of countries led by...
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Worker displacement: A fancy name for losing a job
September 5, 2002Every three years since 1984 the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor has released information on workers who were “displaced” from their jobs. The latest survey shows that in the months between...
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Salt of Earth school opens Sept. 14
September 5, 2002TUCSON, Ariz. – Salt of the Earth Labor College has just released its schedule for Fall 2002. It is the school’s tenth year of educating workers and the progressive community here. Kicking off the semester, Sept....
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