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  • Health care union kicks off united bargaining

    Health care union kicks off united bargaining

    February 29, 2008

    Goal: better care for patients, conditions for workersOAKLAND, Calif. — Health care workers represented by United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW) kicked off their campaign to renegotiate nearly 200 hospital and nursing home contracts covering over 75,000 workers...

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  • Warning: SAVE Act goes wrong way on immigration

    Warning: SAVE Act goes wrong way on immigration

    February 29, 2008

    WASHINGTON — The Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act (SAVE) is an enforcement only, anti-immigrant bill that will make life worse for immigrants and their families while doing nothing to solve our country’s undocumented immigration...

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  • Castros retirement sparks worldwide reaction

    Castros retirement sparks worldwide reaction

    February 29, 2008

    Cuba has a new president. Voting on Feb. 24, Cuba’s National Assembly elected former First Vice President Raul Castro as President of the Council of State, the official whom Cuba’s constitution designates as President of the...

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  • Edwards joins new antiwar campaign

    Edwards joins new antiwar campaign

    February 29, 2008 By Susan Webb

    Former presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth joined MoveOn.org, the Service Employees union, VoteVets.org and other groups Feb. 25 in launching a $20 million Iraq/Recession Campaign that will target war hawk Republican presidential candidate...

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  • Ohioans say its all about jobs

    Ohioans say its all about jobs

    February 29, 2008

    In Toledo, Ohio, a 100-year-old plant that makes plumbing fixtures is closing. Two hundred men and women who make $19 an hour at the American Standard plant will be out on the streets. In the same...

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