"Our members have been working seven days a week without a day off and have worked for three years

"Our members have been working seven days a week without a day off and have worked for three years without a wage increase. ... This is the last straw."
Yvette Salazar
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1001 president, on why Denver transit union workers were going on strike Monday.
"You cannot have a circumstance in which there is a political vacuum in a country like this that faces so much threat of violence."
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
In urging Iraqi leaders to form a government as soon as possible to curb the bloodshed and rein in sectarian militias behind much of the violence.
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