Labor
N.Y. transit union re-elects Toussaint
December 22, 2006Workers’ CorrespondenceRoger Toussaint, president of New York’s Transport Workers Union Local 100, has prevailed in a close and hard-fought union election. The race ended on Dec. 15 with the election of Toussaint for a third three-year...
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Dear Santa
December 22, 2006About 200 demonstrators participated in a holiday-themed picket line and rally at the Woodfin Suites Hotel in Emeryville, Calif., Dec. 18. They were protesting the firings of 21 immigrant workers who had been involved in a...
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Portuguese public workers battle austerity plan
December 22, 2006LISBON, Portugal — A two-day general strike brought this nation to a standstill Nov. 9-10 as 750,000 public workers protested the government’s plan to impose vicious wage and benefit cutbacks at the insistence of the Brussels-based...
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24th W.Va. miner killed on job
December 22, 2006Longtime residents of this state remark, “The only time West Virginia gets on the news is when there is a mining disaster or when a miner dies at work.” The state was back in the news...
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Huge victory for labor in southwest Texas
December 22, 2006Labor-backed Ciro Rodriguez defeated Republican Henry Bonilla, a seven-term incumbent, in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, delivering a knockout blow to the right wing. Rodriguez garnered 54 percent of the vote in the Dec. 12 runoff election,...
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