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1/5/2004; 10:50:23 AM
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Thursday, December 04, 2003 |
The New Unity Partnership in the AFL-CIO: Sweeney critics would bureaucratize to organize. Five US unions have formed a New Unity Partnership to transform the AFL-CIO and the US union movement. This article examines their project, with special attention to the question of democracy. "What binds the New Unity Partnership together, at this juncture, is the conviction that if they could be relieved of the "narrow" restraints of democracy, all power placed in their hands, they could save the labor movement..." From the December/January 2003 issue of Union Democracy Review, #149... [Labour News Network]
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Free Speech Under Attack from Within in US Writers Union. From the December/January 2003 issue of Union Democracy Review, #149 www.uniondemocracy.org The National Writers Union and its parent union, the United Auto Workers, have stripped members of their rights under federal law by declaring that the union is "not a labor organization" and now proceed to limit their free speech as union members. Strange but true, and here is how it worked out... [Labour News Network]
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Argentina's rebound Argentina's economy is showing signs of life after the battering it received in 2001-02. Shops are looking forward to their best Christmas in three years and tourism is booming. Even in the less glamorous neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires long-shuttered businesses are starting to re-open. Out in the pampas, farmers are buying new tractors and trucks, and market towns are buzzing with life. [Economist: World]
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Steel wars WHEN the Bush administration slapped tariffs on imported steel in March 2002, the move was sold as a temporary measure to help America's ailing steel companies get back on their feet. Job losses in the battered industry were concentrated in rustbelt states such as Ohio and West Virginia (which George Bush would love to win again in the 2004 elections) and Pennsylvania (which he hopes to snatch from the Democrats). Last month the World Trade Organisation ruled again that the tariffs were illegal. [Economist: World]
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