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  • As nightmare scenario unfolds in one plant, auto union fights for American way of life

    As nightmare scenario unfolds in one plant, auto union fights for American way of life

    July 27, 2007 By John Wojcik

    BELVIDERE, Ill. — Pretend you’re an autoworker and you’re having a bad dream. In your dream it’s 2008, one year after the Big Three — GM, Chrysler and Ford — got away with murder in contract...

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  • The call of Cuba

    The call of Cuba

    July 20, 2007

    I’m not so much of a world traveler, but I do know from friends who travel that there are few places you can go where you won’t find a McDonald’s, a Kentucky Fried Chicken or a...

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  • EDITORIAL: Sitting on a fault line

    EDITORIAL: Sitting on a fault line

    July 20, 2007

    A major earthquake hit Japan’s Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant this week. That should give pause to those who advocate looking to nuclear power as concerns about global warming escalate. On July 16, an earthquake measuring...

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  • EDITORIAL: America needs a break

    EDITORIAL: America needs a break

    July 20, 2007

    It’s summer. The warm sun means you can put on shorts, pack your stuff and head off for a stretch at the beach, in the woods or at a resort hotel or maybe plan to have...

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  • We need the Healthy Families Act

    We need the Healthy Families Act

    July 20, 2007

    Worker's Correspondence Every day, hundreds of thousands of Americans who are really too sick to work trudge off to their jobs, in spite of their fevers, sore throats, headaches, sprains and strains. Hundreds of thousands of...

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