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RNs strike over patient care
October 19, 2007BERKELEY, Calif. — Nearly 5,000 registered nurses at 15 northern California hospitals walked the picket line Oct. 10-11 in the largest strike of RNs in the state in a decade. Most struck hospitals belong to the...
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Up to a third of U.S. jobs are low-wage, researcher says
October 19, 2007Fighting poverty is ‘moral’ issue> WASHINGTON (PAI) — “One-fourth to one-third” of all U.S. jobs “are low-wage jobs” whose workers need not just a raise, but a support system to help lift them out of poverty,...
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Village raids evoke Gestapo tactics
October 19, 2007Workers’ Correspondence Just before dawn, sweeping searchlights and pounding on doors awaken terrified residents of a small village. Requests for warrants or official identification are ignored as squads of agents, some uniformed and some not, rampage...
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Save home hotline launched
October 19, 2007CLEVELAND — More help is now available to union members caught in the mounting home mortgage crisis, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said at a press conference here Oct. 15. Sweeney unveiled a free, confidential 24-hour Save...
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WORLD NOTES: Oct. 20
October 19, 2007Lesotho: Diplomat hits world neglect of women, children When Stephen Lewis, longtime Canadian political leader and former UN envoy to Africa for HIV/AIDS, was in Lesotho last month receiving honors, Seven Oaks magazine interviewed him. “Central...
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