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Global union leaders blast financial greed
June 22, 2010VANCOUVER, Canada - As a world congress of the International Trade Union Confederation got under way here Monday, leaders blasted the economic crisis hitting working people.
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World Notes: Palestine, Cambodia, Uzbekistan, Angola, Honduras, Iceland
June 21, 2010Collective punishment, big garment workers strike, Russia-China ties, oil riches, violence, bank fraud.
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Co-op City building workers back to work — for now
June 21, 2010BRONX, N.Y. - Management called it a strike, the workers called it a lockout - federal mediation is next at the world's largest co-op apartment complex.
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Revisiting Manzanar
June 21, 2010This spring I joined a pilgrimage to the place where I was incarcerated with my family and thousands of others almost 70 years ago, and wondered: could it happen again?
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No labor peace at Sacramento Airport
June 21, 2010SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Board of Supervisors of California's capital city has voted 3-2 to reject "labor harmony" contract language that would have saved 100 union jobs.
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