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Apparel manufacturers in all countries that make clothing and other logo items for the University of Notre Dame stand to lose their lucrative contracts if they refuse to allow workers to organize.

The late Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers founder who touched millions of lives with his fight for labor rights, is likely to have a state holiday named for him.

If there weren’t already ample reasons to be wary of anti-labor presidential candidate George W. Bush, Fortune magazine offered up another one recently: He’s the overwhelming choice of corporate CEOs.

Washington Post reporter Katherine Boo has won the 1999 Heywood Broun Award for distinguished journalism for her investigation into the rapes, physical abuse and forced labor of retarded people, and the collusion of city officials who profited from the situation.