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  • Strike improves job security at Pratt and Whitney

    Strike improves job security at Pratt and Whitney

    December 21, 2001

    NORTH HAVEN, Conn. – An 11-day strike by 5,000 Pratt & Whitney workers, which brought airplane engine production to a halt, forced the company to improve job security protections for the next three years. For the...

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  • Arafat calls for end to violence: what now?

    Arafat calls for end to violence: what now?

    December 21, 2001

    In his Dec. 16 televised address to the Palestinian nation, on the occasion of the Muslim Eid-el-Fitr festive holiday following the fasting month of Ramadan, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat called for an end to all armed...

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  • 9/11 came on top of suffering NY economy

    9/11 came on top of suffering NY economy

    December 21, 2001

    A decade-long celebration of what was being hailed as a “new economy” diverted public attention from the serious social and economic vulnerabilities accumulating in New York. The Fiscal Policy Institute critically examined this heralded “decade of...

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  • Steelworkers pay for Cold War’s end

    Steelworkers pay for Cold War’s end

    December 21, 2001 By Paul S. Kaczocha

    Much has been written about how low-cost imports have affected steelworkers in the United States. In the past two years, 29 steel companies have declared bankruptcy, with several of them going under and closing their doors....

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  • AFL-CIO 24th Convention: Resolve against the storm

    AFL-CIO 24th Convention: Resolve against the storm

    December 21, 2001

    LAS VEGAS – The the labor movement in Las Vegas has won some very tough battles to make it a union town, with probably one of the highest union membership densities in the country. Labor in...

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