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EDITORIAL: Reverse unequal pay ruling
June 1, 2007The U.S. Supreme Court’s extreme right majority handed down a decision May 29 crippling the right of women workers to win justice in pay discrimination cases. The court ruled 5-4 that women have 180 days to...
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Saying no to foreign military bases
June 1, 2007The International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases was formally established at a conference in Quito and Manta, Ecuador, March 5-9. Over 400 grassroots and community-based activists were in attendance from more than 40...
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Dead last: health care quality in the U.S.
June 1, 2007A few paragraphs in the executive summary of a new report quickly reveal the brutal truth: Among the six nations studied — Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States — the...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
June 1, 2007Security workers march for health care, respectPrivate security officers and their supporters marched May 24 through downtown Oakland, Calif., past the high-rise commercial office buildings they work to protect, to demand decent wages, affordable family health...
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Ohioans urge end to foreclosure frenzy
June 1, 2007CLEVELAND — Residents here appealed to Congress May 21 to end the epidemic of home foreclosures wrecking their city. Community leaders, public officials, researchers and banking experts charged in testimony at a congressional hearing that the...
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