DETROIT--While many union militants from Canada and the northeastern United States spent the third weekend in April on the march in Quebec, nearly 1,000 gathered instead at Detroit's Cobo Hall for an international conference sponsored by Labor Notes. Launched 22 years ago as an alternative to the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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