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3/5/03 - Pension Funds Await New Rules on 30-Year Benchmark.
At issue is the question of what interest rate pension-plan sponsors should use to make two important calculations. The first is the amount they must put into a plan to cover futur...
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3/4/03 - AT$T Distorts CWA Position on UNE-P
Download Letter from CWA President Morty Bahr in pdf format....
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3/2/03 - Bush's Political Counselsor in Greece U.S. Embassy Resigns!
John Brady Kiesling, a Career U.S. Foreign Service Diplomat who has served four U.S. Presidents, RESIGNS UNDER PROTEST! The letter below, delivered to Secretary of State Colin Powe...
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AFL-CIO Opposes War With Iraq!
The AFL-CIO Executive Council ended its four-day meeting in Florida by unanimously passing the following resolution in opposition to War in Iraq. This is a link to an external site...
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WE Are The True Majority - Send FREE FAXES to Congress and The President - 2/23/03
Tell them we can win without WAR and they should let the inspections work. You can fax a free letter to your U.S. Senators, your Congressperson and President Bush in the time it ta...
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Labor's "No" to War! - 2/23/03
"Leaders of more than 400 labor organizations, representing 4.5 million union members, have signed on to a tough resolution condemning the Bush administration's push toward war." T...
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Want To Get The Economy Moving Again? - 2/21/03
Do your part by clicking on this external web site....
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Congratulations to IBEW Local 21 in Their Ongoing Battle Against AT$T/Comcast - 2/18/03
A sweeping decision against AT$T/Comcast was handed down on January 29, 2003 by the Appeals Court of the Federal Seventh Circuit. The decision is a total defeat of the AT$T/Comcast...
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What Do AT$T and Enron Have in Common? - 2/17/03
The answer is.... Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, a law firm! AT$T retained the firm to accuse five CWA Local Presidents of a violation of the Federal Economic Espionage Act. Enron...
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Who Served in the Military? - 2/14/03
Get the dope on today's prominent republican and democratic politicans who are beating the tom toms for War in Iraq! Did they serve their country in their yute? This is link to an ...
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