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Steel industry should be publically owned
December 21, 2001More and more, steelworkers and public officials are looking at use of eminent domain to take over the steel mills bankrupted by LTV Corp. as the only way to save jobs and union contracts and protect...
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Strike improves job security at Pratt and Whitney
December 21, 2001NORTH 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?
December 21, 2001In 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
December 21, 2001A 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
December 21, 2001Much 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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