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Circular migration of labor: a global corporate trend
October 5, 2007The defeat of the Senate’s flawed comprehensive immigration bill last spring and the Bush administration’s escalating of factory and neighborhood raids, deportations and militarization of the border are largely blamed on right-wing forces who see legalization...
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New allies in health care fight
October 5, 2007Our nation’s health care crisis is in the public eye, and while Democratic presidential candidates, with the exception of Dennis Kucinich, are trying to appropriate the language of universal health care to win support for plans...
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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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