Workers’ Correspondence
Jan. 1, 2004, was a historic date for railroad unionism but was little noticed outside the industry. The Teamsters and the oldest of the rail craft unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, merged. 
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Feb 21, 2004
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Fred Gaboury, a logger from the Pacific Northwest, had Paul Bunyan-sized hands so big he couldn’t make his fingers hit the right typewriter keys. Yet in 30 years as a peerless labor writer, he interviewed hundreds of workers – first as editor of Labor Today and then as a writer for People’s Weekly World. His stories from the front lines of the class struggle prompted many to call him the “Dean of American Labor Journalists.”
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WASHINGTON – You know you’re at a great conference when, before the first speaker can finish even one paragraph, 3,000 screaming workers jump to their feet, whooping and hollering to beat George Bush.
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PHILADELPHIA – While Iraqi workers currently face daunting conditions such as spiraling inflation and 70 percent unemployment, they are refusing to let restrictive, anti-labor laws stop their organizing work.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Hace un año desde que Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, el ex obrero metalúrgico y dirigente del izquierdista Partido de los Trabajadores de Brasil, fue electo presidente del país.
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Ahora que el Presidente Bush ha hecho su famoso pronunciamiento sobre cómo se encargará de los entre ocho y doce millones de inmigrantes indocumentados que viven en Estados Unidos, las corporaciones de los medios de comunicación, al parecer sin entender efectivamente la propuesta de Bush, transmiten sus habituales chorradas.
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Grocery worker supporters geared up to mark Valentine’s Day week with the distribution of 20,000 “Don’t Kiss Healthcare Goodbye” leaflets in Washington, D.C., Metro stations.
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Eight people were killed during a general strike that shook the Dominican Republic for 48 hours on Jan. 28-29.
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YPSILANTI, Mich. – Disappearing jobs. That is the issue that primarily motivated nearly 150,000 Michigan voters to participate in the Democratic presidential caucus.
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Negro history: The history of the whole Negro people. A proud heritage of courage.
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