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Meatpackers union sues on immigration raids
September 21, 2007Mike Graves, a 21-year veteran at the Swift & Co. plant in Marshalltown, Iowa, stood in front of a crowd of reporters in Washington, D.C., Sept. 12 and held a pair of handcuffs high over his...
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Panel OKs bill overturning Kentucky River/NLRB decisions
September 20, 2007WASHINGTON (PAI)--By a 26-20 party-line vote 11 months after the rulings were issued, the Democratic-run House Education and Labor Committee voted Sept. 19 to overturn the National Labor Relations Board’s “workers are supervisors” decisions. If approved...
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When a terrorist is our terrorist
September 14, 2007Recently, a 20-year-old American, Din Dona Thin, took an American Airlines flight from Miami to La Paz, Bolivia. She declared to Bolivian customs officials that she was bringing “cheese” into the country, but a search of...
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More on Barry Bonds and the all-American game
September 14, 2007For the last several years we have seen a feeding frenzy targeting one of baseball’s greatest players of all time. What is behind these attacks? Is it that one man went astray in an otherwise pure...
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LETTERS: SEPT. 15
September 14, 2007It’s an occupation It’s very tiresome to keep hearing reference to the so-called “war in Iraq” when there isn’t an actual war in Iraq. Instead, following the illegal invasion of that ruined, but still sovereign, country,...
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