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Carousel strikers take on corporate giant
February 8, 2002NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. – On Feb. 1 Carousel Linen strikers and 100 supporters rallied across the street from the sprawling industrial complex of global pharmaceutical monopoly, Abbott Laboratories. Abbott is Carousel’s last remaining large client and...
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New Mexico teachers:Today is the rainy day
February 8, 2002SANTA FE, N.M. – Nearly 2,000 union members and community activists took to the streets here Feb. 2 as part of the biggest New Mexico Jobs Day demonstration ever. Since the strident anti-labor Governor Gary Johnson...
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Janitors want a raise after almost 30 years
February 8, 2002ST. LOUIS – On Jan. 26, over 400 members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 50 voted unanimously to go on strike. Local 50, which represents over 3,000 custodial and janitorial employees in the St....
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Eliminating racist team names is not a trivial issue
February 8, 2002Is the demand for an end to the use of American Indian team names, mascots, and logos too trivial or divisive an issue for trade unionists and people of all races to support? On the contrary,...
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Education not incarceration
February 8, 2002Most of President Bush’s State of the Union address was devoted to declaring himself ruler of the entire world, without having won any election, but he did take some time out to talk about the economy....
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