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    :: Saturday, August 09, 2003 ::

    reform-aflcio: LaborTalk (August 6, 2003) AFL-CIO Described Me as ‘Security Risk’ And Pressured Hotel to Deny Me Lodging
    By Harry Kelber

    I have been called many names in the years I have worked as a labor journalist and educator, but I’ve never, never been called a “security risk”-- until this week.

    It happened in what was supposed to be a friendly environment--a meeting of the AFL-CIO Executive Council at Chicago’s Drake Hotel on Aug. 5-6.

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