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Labor Feels Betrayed by Ridge
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Sep 18, 2002 07:43pm |
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Category | General |
News Date | Thursday, September 19, 2002 01:43:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, a former union member, finds himself in the position of defending a White House plan that labor leaders fear could strip federal employees of basic workers' rights.
As the Senate prepares to vote on creating a federal Department of Homeland Security, labor advocates are frustrated that Ridge is backing the White House plan that would give the agency powers to hire and fire its workers in the name of safeguarding the nation against terrorism |
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