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		<title>Toyota Republicans should cut their own pay</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/21/toyota-republicans-should-cut-their-own-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President President Bush took to the TV Friday to announce that he wouldn’t walk past the financial crash of America’s Big Three automakers and do nothing to save their lives. Refusing resuscitation, Bush said, would be irresponsible during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. A week earlier, 31 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama opens the door, will labor go through it?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/15/obama-opens-the-door-will-labor-go-through-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Ostertag Associate Professor of Technocultural Studies, University of California, Davis This week demonstrated for all to see two directions for organized labor in the Obama era. You can support laid off workers occupying the factories of their former employers, or you can focus on cutting backroom deals with corrupt politicians. I know, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If G.M. was a Canadian company it wouldn&#8217;t be asking for help</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/12/if-gm-was-a-canadian-company-it-wouldnt-be-asking-for-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research The Detroit automakers have made many mistaken business decisions that have been important factors contributing to their current crisis. However, they are not responsible for some of the factors that have brought them to the brink of bankruptcy. Most obviously, they are not responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Jeep; Save the Nation</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/05/save-the-jeep-save-the-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President In 1941, car manufacturer Willys-Overland demonstrated the strength and sturdiness of its new Army scout vehicle – the Jeep &#8212; to Congress by driving it up the U.S. Capitol steps. Invented and manufactured in the USA, the Jeep would become an icon of American ingenuity, durability and mechanical ability. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress bails out those who shower before work, but not those who shower after work</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/25/congress-bails-out-those-who-shower-before-work-but-not-those-who-shower-after-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President     Congress drove the Big Three CEOs out of Washington, D.C. last week, ordering them not to return with their tin cups until they could guarantee their companies would be viable after a $25 billion bailout. Just days later, Citigroup, a bank that had already received a $25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Henry Paulson sink Detroit?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/20/will-henry-paulson-sink-detroit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/20/will-henry-paulson-sink-detroit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Henry Paulson&#8217;s main claim to fame is getting just about everything wrong in his tenure as Treasury secretary. However, he now stands to gain lasting notoriety as the person who destroyed the domestic U.S. auto industry, and the economies of the Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana [...]]]></description>
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