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Nurses: Ebola threat requires emergency presidential action

October 16, 2014 By Special to People’s World

With concern escalating bout the threat of a wider Ebola outbreak, National Nurses United today called on Obama to "invoke his executive authority."

Today in Labor History: Clayton Antitrust Act signed

October 15, 2014 By Special to People’s World

The Act established that unions are not conspiracies under the law and freed them to legally strike, picket and boycott employers.

Duvalier: Dead but not gone

October 15, 2014 By Charlie Hinton

Jean-Claude Duvalier, responsible for the death of thousands and theft of millions, who moved openly in the society of Haitian elites, died Oct. 4 a free man.

Nurses say U.S. hospitals not ready to tackle Ebola

October 15, 2014 By Combined Sources

As the Ebola crisis appears to grow more serious, some 4,000 nurses got on a national conference call sponsored by the NNU to discuss the response at their hospitals.

In wake of Ferguson, Baltimore examines police practices

October 15, 2014 By Margaret Baldridge And Cindy Farquhar

Baltimore is among the many cities in the country examining its police performance in the wake of the Aug. 9 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.