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REPORTERS NOTEBOOK: AFL-CIO marks King Day with action
January 24, 2009NEW ORLEANS — Each year the AFL-CIO celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day in a different city. This year, it was symbolic that the labor federation chose to hold the event here, with about 1,000 union...
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Mexican govt attacks miners union
January 24, 2009Since 2006, the right-wing Mexican governments of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon have been engaged in a war of nerves with the National Union of Mine, Metal and Allied Workers. Calderon has now escalated the fight...
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WORLD NOTES: January 31
January 24, 2009Paraguay: Agrarian reform unveiled Timed with President Fernando Lugo’s promise to respect landowning rights for 300,000 soy farmers from Brazil, Rural Development Minister Alberto Alderete on Jan. 12 launched the first phase of an agrarian reform...
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LETTERS January 31, 2009
January 24, 2009Quotes of the week Hallelujah! In his inaugural speech (albeit without attribution) President Obama quoted from Thomas Paine’s American Crisis No. 1. “Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of...
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Michigan notebook: Autoworkers rally for jobs; Calls for justice for child care workers
January 24, 2009WARREN, Mich. — Inside the City Hall atrium in this working class suburb of Detroit, 250 autoworkers rallied Jan. 13 to save their jobs. Billed as “Stand Up for American Products and American Workers,” the rally...
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