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Metro Detroit AFL-CIO supports national health care
April 24, 2008DETROIT — Almost every hand went up when John Dick asked the audience: “Who knows someone without health care?” Dick, from National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 3126 in Royal Oak, Mich., was giving a presentation...
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Hollywood to the docks labor power fills the streets
April 24, 2008LOS ANGELES — More than 5,000 union activists and supporters rallied at the harbor here, April 17, roaring their approval of an assertive, one-for-all and all-for-one strategy to change the national and local direction this year.
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A wolf in sheeps clothing: Vote No on 98, Yes on 99!
April 24, 2008Dueling ballot initiatives dealing with the same subject — reforming the government’s ability to take private property under eminent domain — will share center stage in California’s June 3 statewide primary election. Though the official titles...
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India fights soaring food prices
April 24, 2008Food prices are soaring around the world. Long lines for rations of rice or wheat flour snake through cities and towns across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Food protests have rocked Haiti, Egypt, Senegal,...
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Texas nurses organize
April 24, 2008HOUSTON – Nurses at Tenet Healthcare, owned by Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital, voted March 28 to organize and form a union with the California Nurses Association. The hospital is located in northwest Houston and employs...
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