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Bay Area community to Congress: good jobs now!
August 18, 2011A veritable rainbow of Oakland residents lined up at the microphones Aug. 16 to tell four members of Congress how the economic crisis affects them.
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Standing up: a poem for the picket lines
August 18, 2011This poem was inspired by the just-concluded United Steelworkers convention.
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Ohio governor backtracks on union stripping bill
August 18, 2011Unions say that the historic petition drive and a late July Quinnipiac poll showing voters favoring repeal are likely explanations.
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Major food companies promote childhood obesity
August 18, 2011Governments should ban all advertising of unhealthy food aimed at children and indeed ban the production and sale of such foods entirely.
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Verizon threatens strikers with health care cutoff
August 18, 2011Workers this week will miss their first paycheck as result of the strike, now in its 11th day. Pension and disability benefits were suspended as the strike began.
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