Convention Protests Target Labor Policies
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NEW YORK - Republican National Convention protesters waved symbolic pink slips along a three-mile "unemployment line," labor unions demanded better treatment of workers and a group of AIDS activists infiltrated Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, as arrest totals soared beyond 1,700 for the past week.    The arrests, including several on Wednesday, far surpass those made in much more violent circumstances at Chicago's 1968 Democratic convention...
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NEW YORK - On the eve of the Republican National Convention in New York, thousands turned out on a scorching day to protest the policies of President George W. Bush and his administration.
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Unionized Washington, D.C. hotel  workers said on Friday they might go on strike if they could  not reach a new contract settlement before events leading to  the U.S. Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20.
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Strikes planned for January 7, 14 and 17 after union ballot
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Unions look set to back industrial action at BAA airports, but consider festive amnesty
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On the eve of the Republican National Convention, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Manhattan to speak out against the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
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Abortion-rights protesters and the first Republican delegates descended on President Bush's heavily fortified convention city Saturday as campaign officials said their boss would use the nomination spotlight to defend his hawkish foreign polices and offer a second-term agenda for health care, education and job training.
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Tens of thousands of trade unionists, farmers and leftists marched through downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to protest price increases for basic foods like tortillas &#151; the staple of Mexico's poor &#151; and to demand a change in economic policy.
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Thousands of people waving pink slips will line Broadway for three miles, their jobless-in-America protest stretching from the site of the Republican National Convention to Wall Street.
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Thousands of protesters marched past New York&#39;s Madison Square Garden where the Republican National Convention starts tomorrow to show their opposition to the Iraq war and President George W. Bush.
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Trade unions opened their annual conference amid threats of strike action ahead of a general election expected in 2005, urging Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to tackle concerns about pensions and job cuts.
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They have protested naked, used pedal  power, marched and rung bells in the days leading up to the  Republican convention, but on Sunday political activists were  expected to turn out in the hundreds of thousands to rally  against President Bush's policies.
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Millions of workers across Italy are expected to take part in a general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Demanding full labor rights, unionized public workers went on a general strike for the first time in the nationâs history on Monday.
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BOCHUM, Germany Thousands of General Motors employees at its European factories are staging protests to fight what they call &quot;bad management.
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Republicans also said they would seek to turn any disruptions at the convention to their advantage, by portraying protests as Democratic-sanctioned displays of disrespect for a sitting president.
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LABOR: Members march outside the Labor Department in Washington, DC, to protest the regulations that took effect Monday. BY LEIGH STROPE.