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...game for more than two decades. The son of a shoe salesman, Rosenthal, 51, grew up on Long Island, N.Y., and got his start in politics organizing unions in New Jersey. Few in Democratic politics have shown the kind of results that Rosenthal did as head of the AFL-CIO's political operation from 1996 to 2002. In the 2000 election, union members accounted for only about 16% of the voting-age population but produced 26% of the votes; two of three union votes went to the Dems...
...incumbent Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had won the presidential election, and accused Arroyo of electoral fraud. One For The Road BRAZIL The government withdrew an expulsion order against New York Times correspondent Larry Rohter. The government said Rohter had apologized for a story he wrote suggesting President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's drinking habits were a matter of national concern. The Times denied they either apologized or retracted the comment. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN ... Looking for Harder Time Two prisoners who escaped from an open prison in central England turned up a day later at the doors...
...even municipal election. Besides being problematic for those who have utopian visions of the wonders decentralization can do for America’s schools, this syndrome upsets the balance between unionist and administrator with school board candidates relying on union support. It’s as if the AFL-CIO took over a company’s board of directors...
Many economists agree with him. Anything that makes an economy more efficient tends to help in the long run. But in reducing job losses to macroeconomic landfill, Mankiw handed Democrats an issue. His words, accompanied by an ominous drumbeat, are now immortalized on the AFL-CIO's website, just before an image of a beaming John Kerry, who won the union's endorsement last week...
...extremist protesters”—have had some limited success in protesting Coke, but they are hoping the Bombay forum will provide a chance to join forces with a union boycott of Coke led by Sinaltrainal, Colombia’s largest food and bottling union, the AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union. The protesters allege collusion between Coca-Cola and a right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, which the U.S. State Department classifies as a terrorist organization, in the intimidation and assassination of union members in Coke bottling plants in Colombia...