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Obama: Families in urgent need of health reform
July 21, 2009Families are in desperate need of health reform, President Obama said in remarks at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, July 20. In his statement, after meeting with the hospital's administrators, doctors and nurses, the president...
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Roger Rader: 1929-2009
July 21, 2009TACOMA, Washington – Roger Rader’s family and friends gathered in the front yard of the family house here July 18 to remember his irascible personality but also his unwavering, lifelong fight for trade union rights, civil...
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Deaths among Latino workers rise
July 21, 2009The number of Latino workers who die on the job has risen 76 percent since 1992, even as the total number of workplace deaths has declined, federal statistics show. In 1992 the number of reported Latino...
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Obama takes lead on health reform
July 21, 2009Pushing back against Republican opposition to health reform, President Obama this week launched a national campaign for urgent passage of health reform proposals in Congress. 'Now there are some in this town who are content to...
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NEWS ANALYSIS Getting closer than ever to majority signup
July 21, 2009Speculation in the major media about the alleged “dropping” of majority signup from the Employee Free Choice Act, coming now as the nation is on the verge of radical labor law reform, must be viewed, at...
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