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Panel hears racial profiling cases
September 13, 2002Racial profiling and other acts of discrimination came to the surface in Naugatuck, Conn., on August 29. Speaker after speaker told an NAACP-led panel that African Americans live in fear of the police here. One citizen...
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Illinois AFL-CIO sets election goals
September 13, 2002OAK PARK, Ill. – Labor 2002, the AFL-CIO campaign to elect worker-friendly candidates in this year’s election, rolled into the western suburbs of Chicago on Sept. 6.
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Freight trucking company fires thousands on Labor Day
September 13, 2002Consolidated Freight picked Labor Day to lower the boom on its union employees. All across the country, as Teamsters members reported to work for the holiday weekend, they found shuttered terminals. In several locations their truck...
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Philadelphia school crisis far from solved
September 13, 2002PHILADELPHIA – As the nation watched, public schools here opened on Sept. 4 in a state of confusion and uncertainty, with 150 teaching positions vacant and 211 support staff on layoff. Seventy of the city’s 264...
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Calif. Governor, Jackson unite with ILWU
September 13, 2002LOS ANGELES – California Gov. Gray Davis joined with the state legislature, Rev. Jesse Jackson and scores of leaders here, warning President George W. Bush not to intervene in the contract negotiations of the International Longshore...
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