John Wojcik
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Police tear down New York’s Occupy Wall Street camp
November 15, 2011In the pre-dawn hours today helmeted and shield-carrying police tore down the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park here where protesters have hunkered down since September.
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Communist Party’s National Committee convenes just blocks from Occupy Wall Street
November 12, 2011Leaders of the Communist Party, USA, opened a full session of their recently-elected National Committee in New York in a celebratory mood on Saturday.
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Congress eyeing backdoor route to slashing benefits
November 8, 2011Republicans and Democrats inclined to go along with the slashers are reportedly considering adoption of a new formula that would allow progressively larger reductions in Social Security and other benefits.
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Economy adds paltry 80,000 jobs, official jobless rate 9 percent
November 4, 2011Just 80,000 jobs were added in the U.S. economy in October and the official unemployment rate was 9 percent, almost unchanged from September.
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Workers reject sugar company demands; lockout continues
November 3, 2011Workers at American Crystal Sugar's seven plants in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa rejected, by a nine to one margin in a Nov. 1 vote, the company's latest demands.
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Unions urge last minute calls to Senate today on jobs
November 3, 2011The U.S. Senate will vote on the Rebuild America Jobs Act, which would immediately create jobs by putting $59 billion into infrastructure repairs.
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Wisconsin GOP pushes bill to slow down recall
November 2, 2011In a sneak attack on the democratic rights of the voters to recall elected officials, the Republicans are proposing a bill that would force petition gatherers, who already have to certify each petition they collect, to...
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AFL-CIO ramps up campaign to protect Social Security
October 31, 2011The AFL-CIO is ramping up its campaign to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from threatened future cuts by the congressional so-called "Super Committee."
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