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Grassroots organizing wins big at America West
November 5, 2004The announcement of victory spread to airports across the nation at lightning speed after the nearly 3,200 customer service representatives at America West won their union election on Aug. 17. It was the largest union election...
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EPA pays families to expose kids to pesticides
November 5, 2004WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is paying selected Florida families who “spray or have pesticides sprayed inside your home routinely” to study their infant children, according to agency documents released today by Public Employees...
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No paid leave raises level of flu danger
November 5, 2004WASHINGTON (PAI) — Lack of paid sick leave in the U.S. may force flu-ridden employees — men and women who caught the flu and didn’t get shots due to lack of vaccine — to work when...
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ChicagoCity college teachers on strike
November 5, 2004CHICAGO (PAI) — Management demands to load $2,000 in increased health care costs on each worker each year, plus its insistence on higher workloads, forced teachers at Chicago’s city/community colleges into their first strike in 27...
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Workers encouraged in S.F. hotel dispute
November 5, 2004SAN FRANCISCO — As the lockout of 4,000 hotel workers by the 14-hotel Multi-Employer Group continued here, workers and their union, UNITE HERE Local 2, were encouraged by several developments: • On Oct. 28, the State...
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