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June-July 2004 America@work Table of Contents

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    In the June/July issue of America@work:
      
     
    My Vote, My Right
    Through a new AFL-CIO voting rights protection program, voters are learning about changes in election laws since 2000 and
    what they can do to protect their votes in the election process in November.
    Photo Credit: Mike Ewen
     
      
    Making Labor Law Work for Workers
    Activists join unions in educating union members, lawmakers and the public about the need for the Employee Free Choice Act.
    Photo Credit: USWA
     
     

    AFL-CIO Ask a Working Woman Report
    Good jobs and health care are working women's top concerns, according to a new AFL-CIO survey.

     
     

    Closing the Doors on Wal-Mart
    A coalition of union and community members stopped the world’s largest retailer from bringing low-wage, low-benefit jobs to their California town.

    Photo Credit: Nick Ut/AP

    Union ABCs
    The American Labor Studies Center helps educators provide students a lesson often missing from school curriculum: workers and their unions.

    Photo Credit: University of Missouri at Columbia Labor Education Program
    Currents
     
    Ensuring a Voice on the Job with OPEIU
     
    Union Members Knock on Voters' Doors
     
    Building a Partnership with Habitat for Humanity
    Toolbox
     
    Taxpayers and Workers Subsidize Wal-Mart's Profits
    Like It Is
     
    Brown v. Board of Education: Still Working to Make the Dream Reality
    Out Front by AFL-CIO John J. Sweeney
     
    Reclaim America
    Homepage
     
    Exhibit: Drawing the Line: The Labor Posters of Ricardo Levins Morales
     
    Video: "Danger Ahead! The FTAA Is Coming Your Way"
     
    Publications: Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization?
     
    Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-First Century
     
    Music: "Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1"
     
    Websightings: Labor museum, paid family leave and union songs
     
    The Union Shop Online: Get 3/4-length sleeve Working Women Vote T-shirts, a high-quality
    union-made-in-the-USA American flag and more at www.aflcio.org/shop

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    From America@work, June/July 2004.
     
     
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