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  Wednesday  July 3  2002    01: 38 AM

Labor and homeland Security

Strikers pose threat to Homeland?
'National security' used to justify strikebreaking—again

At the rate things are going, it may not be long before labor organizers are being thrown into military prisons and held without warrant as "enemy combatants." Tom Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security has been phoning Jim Spinosa, head of the West Coast's Longshoremen's Union, saying that a strike would be bad for the national interest.
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