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	<title>USW Blog &#187; minimum wage</title>
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		<title>Workers Rights Are Civil Rights</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/24/workers-rights-are-civil-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard
International President
This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar&#8217;s lot really, but still corporations across America decried it. Good times or bad, somehow Wall Streeters walk away with $700,000 bonuses, you know, on top of their salaries, but a 70-cent minimum wage hike is never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color Hardest. Workers Desperately Need EFCA.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The real economy strikes back</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/10/07/the-real-economy-strikes-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Middle class needs right to bargain, secure contracts &#8212; like CEOs have</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/08/08/america%e2%80%99s-middle-class-needs-right-to-bargain-secure-contracts-like-ceos-have/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>China trade promises all snake oil</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/08/02/china-trade-promises-all-snake-oil-%e2%80%93-fair-trade-crucial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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