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    :: Monday, September 12, 2005 ::

    Bush Uses Disaster to Ram Through Low-Wage Work - AFL-CIO News
    “Employers are all too eager to exploit workers. This is no time to make that easier,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says. “What a double tragedy it would be to allow the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to depress living standards even further. Taking advantage of a national tragedy to get rid of a protection for workers the corporate backers of the White House have long wanted to remove is nothing less than profiteering.”
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