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  • Border insecurity rises, as does the temperature

    Border insecurity rises, as does the temperature

    June 1, 2007

    TUCSON, Ariz. — While Congress debates “tougher security at the border,” the temperature is rising above 100 degrees in the Sonoran Desert. Already 84 bodies have been found along the Mexico-Arizona border, more than this time...

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  • Black unionists assail wage, wealth gaps

    Black unionists assail wage, wealth gaps

    June 1, 2007

    Stressing civil rights and labor rights, delegates eye 2008 elections CHICAGO — Answering the question, “Are the civil rights and labor movements united?” with a resounding “more than ever,” the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists held...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    May 25, 2007

    There goes another plant Sometimes when you watch working people being mauled, degraded and blamed for everything from bad luck to bad weather, you have to ask yourself: when is enough enough? Well, the owners of...

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  • Labor/equality alliance lives

    Labor/equality alliance lives

    May 25, 2007

    It is appropriate that Chicago, where the fight for the 8-hour day began so dramatically at Haymarket Square 120 years ago, is the site of this year’s Coalition of Black Trade Unionists convention. Chicago is also...

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  • Black unionists urge new social contract

    Black unionists urge new social contract

    May 25, 2007

    CHICAGO — Dismantling of the corporate agenda is the big mission that the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) took on as it opened its 36th International Convention here May 23 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel....

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