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By Mark Gruenberg Press Associates Union News Service MONTCLAIR, N.J. – As the strike that wealthy telecom Verizon forced on 40,000 workers neared the end of its fourth week, a rank-and-file Verizon worker, Amanda Poe, penned an open letter to the company’s CEO, telling him why he forced her to walk the picket line. In …

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For the first time in U.S. history, a committed union member will be on U.S. currency: Eleanor Roosevelt, who joined the American Newspaper Guild in 1936, will be on the back of the newly designed $5 bill. Roosevelt will enter that pantheon when she joins Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Marian Anderson on the …

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