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Talks continue after first-ever security workers strike
October 5, 2007SAN FRANCISCO — Talks for a new contract continued this week after workers who provide security in prime downtown office buildings returned to their jobs Sept. 27 following a first-ever three-day strike. Workers, members of SEIU...
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Veterans group seeks mandatory VA funding
October 5, 2007CHICAGO — If you thought every woman and man that served in the U.S. military and honorably discharged was guaranteed health care as a veteran, you would be wrong. Funding shortages still limit the extent and...
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WORLD NOTES: Oct. 6
October 5, 2007Egypt: Textile workers strike When 27,000 Egyptian textile workers struck the state-owned Misr textile corporation on Sept. 23, about 7,000 workers occupied a factory in el-Mahalla el-Kubra in the Nile Delta. Five independent union leaders spent...
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Haiti: repression drops, but not poverty
October 5, 2007VANCOUVER, British Columbia — While the people of Haiti have experienced an improvement in the country’s political atmosphere, their economic situation continues to deteriorate, said Roger Annis, a representative of the Canada-Haiti Action Network. Annis visited...
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Critics call Cuban blockade genocide
October 5, 2007Cuba plans soon to introduce its annual resolution before the UN General Assembly against the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Nations siding with Cuba have gone from 59 in 1992 to 183 last year. At a press...
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