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OPINION: Solis and employee free choice both key to fixing the economy
February 24, 2009Union members have been on the phone and all over the internet pushing for Senate confirmation of Hilda Solis, President Obama’s choice for Secretary of Labor and for the Employee Free Choice Act. The two battles...
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Tel Aviv told not to abandon two-state solution as coalition talks continue
February 24, 2009Original source: European Union diplomats warned Israel's next government on Monday not to abandon the two-state solution as right-wingers continued coalition talks in Tel Aviv. Israeli President Shimon Peres asked hardline Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu...
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Republic Windows workers come to Connecticut
February 24, 2009NEW HAVEN, CT -- UE Local 1110 president Armando Robles and other officers recently toured the country to make public their sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago which won a severance package. The Connecticut...
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Labor rallies against racist editorial cartoon in New York Post
February 24, 2009Hundreds of angry protestors recently gathered in mid town Manhattan for a noon time rally protesting an editorial cartoon that ran in the previous day’s edition of the notorious New York Post newspaper. The cartoon depicted...
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Stanford: Biggest Texas scandal since Enron
February 24, 2009HOUSTON – With typical Texas flamboyance, Sir Robert Allen Stanford built a financial empire which stretched across Texas, through Mexico, the Caribbean islands and into South America. He was charged by the SEC on Feb. 17...
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