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Clinton's free-trade advocacy is hitting labor where it lives
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTo many labor unions and high-tech workers, the Indian giant Tata Consultancy Services is a serious threat -- a company that has helped move U.S. jobs to India while sending thousands of foreign workers on temporary visas to the United States. So when...Tags: Reviews, John Kerry, Interior Policy, Hotels and Accommodations, Health and Safety at School
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At Wal-Mart, Clinton didn't upset any carts
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAt a Democratic presidential debate last month, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton described Wal-Mart, the world's largest retail company, as a "mixed blessing." She spoke from experience. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: An article on May 19, 2007,...Tags: Regional Authority, Companies and Corporations, Bill Clinton, Justice System, Sam Walton
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At L.A. carwashes, taking a stand
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"Compañero, how do they treat you here?" The stranger addressed Manuel Varela, a worker at Nary's Hand Car Wash on Beverly Boulevard, in Spanish. "Badly," Varela answered, continuing to pass tickets to motorists as they pulled in. Curious, Gabriel...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Emiliano Zapata, Justice System, Deportation, Mexico
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Edwin O. Guthman, 89; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEdwin O. Guthman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and editor whose aggressive pursuit of Watergate stories during the 1970s earned him the enmity of President Nixon and the No. 3 spot on Nixon's infamous enemies list, has died. He was...Tags: Television, Values, Ethics, Sports, Entertainment
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Obama and Big Labor
Today's question: Will big labor help or hurt Obama in his first year in the White House? Previously, Weigel and Lilly discussed possible futures for Hillary Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Obama administration, weighed potential Cabinet picks...Tags: Henry Ford, Productivity, American Federation of Teachers, George W. Bush, World War II (1939-1945)
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Ron Carey dies at 72; Teamsters president ousted amid financial scandal
Associated PressRon Carey, a former president of the Teamsters who pledged to rid the union of mob corruption but was later forced from leadership in a financial scandal, has died. He was 72. Carey died Thursday at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens of...Tags: Health, Diseases and Illnesses, UPS Inc., Crimes, Elections
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Former Chavez Ally Took His Own Path
Times Staff WriterAt 21, the farmworker from Delano with an eighth-grade education hopped an airplane for the first time, with $20, a bag of UFW buttons to sell and the name of a Chicago postal worker loyal to the union cause. The kid from the tiny town in the Central...Tags: Grapes, History, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Music Industry, Sports
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Linked Charities Bank on the Chavez Name
Times Staff WriterKEENE, Calif. — Paul Chavez lives a stone's throw from the two-bedroom home where he grew up and his mother still resides. His commute is a short walk across a bucolic compound here in the Tehachapi Mountains to the nondescript building where he...Tags: History, Interior Policy, Tourism and Leisure, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Rentals
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Voting in a neck-and-neck nation
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — The 2006 campaign, one of the nastiest battles and the most expensive ever for control of Congress, came to an end Monday amid indications that months of debate over Iraq, political corruption and the Republican dominance of...Tags: Michael Steele, Thomas M Reynolds, Polls, Entertainment, Political Corruption
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Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots
Times Staff WriterRed letters flash inside the famous black eagle, symbol of the United Farm Workers: "Donate," the blinking message urges, to carry on the dreams of Cesar Chavez. Bannered on websites and spread by e-mail, the insistent appeals resonate with a...Tags: Public Employees, Grapes, Interior Policy, Rentals, Symbols and Symbolism
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Cuts Would Harm the Paper and Our Region
September 12, 2006 Dear Mr. FitzSimons and Members of the Board of Directors: We are writing to urge the Tribune Company to continue to keep the Los Angeles Times a vibrant paper of local, state, national and international importance, and to resist...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Journalism, Tribune Company, Corporate Officers, Sports
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Tom Braden dies at 92; former CIA operative became columnist and talk show co-host
Tom Braden, a former CIA operative who became a syndicated newspaper columnist, liberal co-host of the CNN talk show "Crossfire" and author of "Eight Is Enough," a 1975 memoir that spawned the popular television series, died of natural causes Friday at...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Culture, Television, H.L. Mencken, Entertainment
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