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Labor/equality alliance lives
May 25, 2007It 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
May 25, 2007CHICAGO — 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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Earths last best hope
May 25, 2007Last week’s column examined why capitalism has not stopped environmental destruction, despite protests, local victories and treaties like Kyoto. Profound economic, political and social forces make capitalism incapable of doing so, just as they block its...
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Laundry workers vow to strike till we win
May 25, 2007CHICAGO — Some 20 laundry workers who have been on strike since last July at Lechner and Sons, a uniform-rental and industrial laundering company in nearby Mount Prospect, Ill., joined with community and labor leaders to...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
May 25, 2007PORTLAND, Maine: Impeach Bush/Cheney drive gets boost The Woodfords Club is not a smoke-filled room. Opened in 1913, the quaint picture postcard New England private club hosted a May 19 rally of over 200 calling for...
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