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Health care union kicks off united bargaining
February 29, 2008Goal: 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
February 29, 2008WASHINGTON — 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
February 29, 2008Cuba 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
February 29, 2008Former 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
February 29, 2008In 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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