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Global auto union leaders to meet with Nissan workers in Mississippi
October 8, 2014A delegation of senior-level trade union leaders from around the globe will travel to Canton, Mississippi, to meet with Nissan workers and community leaders.
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Labor, aiming to oust McConnell, campaigns hard for Grimes in Kentucky
October 8, 2014"A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one," legendary former U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn famously once observed.
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First round election results in Brazil leave left hopeful
October 8, 2014On Sunday October. 5, Brazil held its general elections, after a campaign that was anything but boring.
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Anger in Mexico over attack on teachers’ college students
October 8, 2014Mexicans reacted with anger and indignation to the disappearance and possible murder of 43 young students of a teachers' college near Iguala, in the Southern State of Guerrero.
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Proposition 2: A bad idea for California
October 7, 2014Prop 2 sets aside a percentage of the surplus billions in unexpected tax revenues, without restoring the $15 billion in brutal budget cuts beginning in 2008 .
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