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Union activist: organizing drive spurs contract gains
October 26, 2007NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “Our members are thrilled. For the first time in years we pulled off a victory.” Ray Milici, veteran of 40-plus years working at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), was reflecting on the...
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Univ. of Chicago workers demand fair contract
October 26, 2007CHICAGO — Sharon Mikulich, a clerical worker for the Law School at the University of Chicago, has worked there for 31 years. An active member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 743, she was an...
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Government stumbles in Holy Land trial
October 26, 2007DALLAS — The long-awaited verdicts in one of the country’s most critical civil rights cases were revealed Oct. 22 at the Earle Cabell Federal Building downtown. The Holy Land Foundation, the largest organization providing charitable aid...
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Republican wins in Louisiana, exploits Jena 6
October 26, 2007Republican Bobby Jindal won election as governor of Louisiana, Oct. 20, with a campaign that evaded the issues while offering barely coded appeals to racism in the case of the Jena Six. Jindal won 53 percent...
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On the New Orleans docks: Workers fight to rebuild their city
October 26, 2007NEW ORLEANS — A small sliver of downtown New Orleans has bounced back as a neighborhood of gleaming corporate office towers and a playground for the rich. There, on Oct. 19, in the “isle of denial,”...
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