Qwest workers near strike after stalled contract talks
The Communications Workers of America with 25 000 Qwest workers in 13 states moved closer to a strike after a midnight deadline passed without a new contract. The executive board authorized the president to call a strike if needed, with a date to be set later. The union cited persistent unresolved issues and disappointing progress. Qwest reportedly did not concede on health care and retirement, and offered no overtime increase.
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Qwest Communications
Communications Workers of America
Candice Johnson
CWA
Johnson
Qwest
Mystery DC boy from 1850s coffin studied by experts
Experts at the National Museum of Natural History opened a well preserved coffin found in Columbia Heights Washington DC. They examined a 13 year old boy likely died of lobar pneumonia around 1850 after a 24 to 36 hour fast. His pleated shirt waistcoat and white lateen trousers were preserved.
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Washington
Smithsonian Laboratory
Columbia Road NW
District of Columbia
National Museum of Natural History
Con
Washington D.C
Columbia Heights
Museum of Natural History
Arthur Aufderheide
University of Minnesota
Aufderheide
ELCA condemns Israeli West Bank barrier in peace proposal
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denounces the security barrier and calls for a just peace in the Holy Land. Delegates adopt the plan in a 668 to 269 vote during a weeklong assembly, amid Protestant Jewish tensions and debates over divestment. The 4.9 million member denomination partners with Palestinian churches and a Jerusalem hospital serving Palestinians.
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Orlando
Fla
Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
Israel
West Bank
The
Holy Land
Mideast
U.S
East Jerusalem
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