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Student-worker coalition scores victory at Stanford
June 14, 2002PALO ALTO, Calif. – Victory! After a three-night sleep-out in front of the Stanford University president’s office, over 100 students joined campus workers at midnight May 31 to celebrate huge gains won by employees of Bon...
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Unemployment by the numbers
June 14, 2002Thousands of workers laid off immediately after Sept. 11 have lost their unemployment benefits, exhausting the 13- week extension that was passed in March. But the big corporations are still collecting the tax cuts that Congress...
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Protect Social Security
June 14, 2002In the week of July 4 and beyond, the AFL-CIO and other groups will stage events across the country to demand that members of Congress “declare their independence” from President Bush’s dangerous plans to privatize Social...
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Board tackles health care, globalization
June 14, 2002ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Jobs with Justice held its first Workers Rights Board hearing here June 8 at the Ethical Society of St. Louis. It was entitled “St. Louis Confronts the Recession” and was co-sponsored by...
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Poverty + unemployment finances = TB
June 14, 2002New York is lucky, in a sense. The newly appointed Commissioner for Health, Dr. Thomas Frieden, was the senior public health physician in charge of fighting the Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic that gripped New York in 1991...
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