Bruce Bostick

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  Economic issues in the elections

  October 24, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

  With control of the House and Senate at stake in the Nov. 5 elections, the Republicans have launched a national campaign of lies and disinformation.

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  Latinos and the recession

  October 3, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

  George Bush is trying to attract Hispanic voters by speaking Spanish and nominating a reactionary Latino lawyer as a federal judge. But the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda has examined congressional voting records. They have found that...

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  Its hurricane season for workers

  September 27, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

  In our states and cities, we are caught between a drenching rain and a freezing wind. We are getting soaked by the layoffs, lower wages and vanished pensions brought on by the recession and the burst...

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  The disappearing jobs of summer

  September 13, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

  This summer in New Haven, Conn., my neighborhood block watch held a meeting in response to a series of car break-ins. The police lieutenant told us he talked with 16 kids who were likely to cause...

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  Yale workers battle Ivy league economics

  August 30, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

  Job security, classifications, promotions and pensions are at stake when 4,000 Yale workers take a strike authorization vote on Sept. 4, as well as the right of graduate teachers and hospital workers to organize. But for...

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  Economic recovery? Not for African Americans

  August 8, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

  Although the official unemployment rate for July stood at 5.9 percent, it was 9.9 percent if “hidden” unemployment – those who would work if they could find jobs – were taken into account, and that’s bad.

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  The ILWU longshore contract by the numbers

  July 19, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

  The longshore workers who load and unload the cargo ships on the West Coast are locked in a struggle for a new contract. Their union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), is under attack by...

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  The ILWU longshore contract by the numbers

  July 19, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

  The longshore workers who load and unload the cargo ships on the West Coast are locked in a struggle for a new contract. Their union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), is under attack by...

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