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Issue no. 807 — October 8 - 22, 2007
- Editorial: The Vultures of Wall Street Are Circling over the GM VEBA
- Egypt: New strike of textile workers
- Rights of “Indigenous People”: A formal right, a real disappearance
- Burma: Foreign investments
- Burma: A dictatorship supported by the big powers
- Simi Valley: Right wing attacks on immigrant sanctuary
- “Ford is in worse financial shape,” NO! They make it, then they take it away
- The devil in the GM contract: Sell out your children, your parents and yourselves
- Scare tactic #1
- NO to two-tier of any kind!
- Caterpillar workers know all about VEBA
- If GM risks bankruptcy – cover retirees with GM stock!
- New Attendance Rules: GM Owns You
- VEBA good for 80 years? Not even 80 months!
- COLA formula maintained – but the money disappears!
- Chrysler: Scheduling a vote with nobody there
- Key sections of the UAW GM contract on-line
- Skilled trades on a chopping block
- GM Contract – A monument to worthless promises
- A promotion for this?
- LAX: One near miss after another
- Five workers dead – the cost of pushing to increase profits
- Michigan budget deal: Exactly as scripted
- CEOs “sacrifice” in a time of war
- Congress can’t find money for poor children
- Iraq: Controlled by ethnic cleansing
- Children’s health care – just a CHIP in a political game