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By GW=MCHammered, May 23, 2008 at 12:23 pm Link to this comment
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Longshore union strikes against war
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/361087_mayday.html

“These days, such examples of worker power are increasingly rare in the U.S. The tragedy is that, historically, labor activism gave us the 40-hour workweek (and the weekend) and helped humanize the exploitative excesses of unregulated capitalism. As income inequality continues to grow in the United States, it is wise to remember how, in the past, strong unions created a larger middle class as well as a more democratic and egalitarian nation.”

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