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Struggle to save jobs at Winchester continues
March 24, 2006NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The struggle to save unionized manufacturing jobs and continue the 140-year production of Winchester sporting arms in New Haven has attracted national and international attention as the Belgian Herstal Group prepares to...
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Perfect pension storm revisited
March 24, 2006Some time ago this paper surveyed the approach of a “perfect storm” of economic assaults on the U.S. private pension system. Not entirely unmindful of the weather, the U.S. Republican-controlled Congress, under the leadership of Sen....
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Gary meeting discusses economic agenda for Blacks
March 24, 2006GARY, Ind. — An array of African American business, political, civic, labor and economic leaders met at Westside High School here March 9-12 for the National Black People’s Unity Convention to discuss a long-term economic empowerment...
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New Orleans spurns voting rights, NAACP charges
March 24, 2006The New Orleans primary election set for April 22 violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act, NAACP President and CEO Bruce Gordon has charged. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has assailed the Justice...
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French protest job bill
March 24, 2006After a weekend of protests in which 1.5 million people took to the streets, French labor unions are preparing for a general strike in response to what they call a dangerous and disturbing new law. The...
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