Labor's Gambit in Houston
17th Nov 2006, 07:54 GMT
HOUSTON -- According to the laws of economics, a $5.25-an-hour night cleaning woman with breast cancer is no match for the multibillion-dollar corporations that run the energy capital of America. But that's only one of the assumptions being tested in a strike of 1,700 Houston janitors that began...
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