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GM Plant Closes: Who’s to Blame?

June 3, 2008 – 10:15 pm

This morning, General Motors announced that it would be closing four plants — including the Janesville, Wisconsin plant. Everyone was talking about the news today. Most of the talk centered around who to blame. The most popular candidates were President Bush; the evil, greedy managers of GM; and even President Reagan (!). Governor Doyle’s opinion: [...]

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Special-Ed Kids Everywhere You Look

May 11, 2007 – 6:21 am

From What special-ed cut means: Several speech and language clinicians predicted some of the projected savings won’t materialize. Testing of children diagnosed with only speech and language disabilities will intensify, they said, in search of additional diagnoses — such as learning disabilities, or emotional behavioral disabilities — that would cement the [...]

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Manufacturing in Decline?

April 26, 2007 – 7:33 am

United States Steel, Alcoa, Goodyear and the United Steelworkers want to convince you that American manufacturing is in serious decline and that if serious action isn’t taken soon our manufacturing sector will disappear entirely. “The hemorrhaging of manufacturing jobs is hurting America down to the local level,” said Terrence D. Straub, United States Steel’s [...]

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Unions and Success

June 14, 2006 – 6:30 am

The United Automobile Workers Union recently held its annual convention. While in Las Vegas, they discussed what steps were necessary to grow union membership. Mr. Bailey [president of Local 2865] told fellow members that organizing could often take a long time, saying that it took nearly two decades to change California law to allow [...]

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