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If you’re sick, come in anyway!

October 28, 2009 By John Wojcik

In reaction to the swine flu epidemic, unions are pushing for guaranteed sick days.

U.S. official quits Afghanistan job over war

October 28, 2009 By Susan Webb

Vice President Joe Biden's foreign policy adviser will meet this week with a respected U.S. Foreign Service officer who quit his job in Afghanistan because he lost faith in the purpose of the war.

Congress Hotel strikers set record

October 28, 2009 By John Bachtell

CHICAGO – “This is an embarrassing day for the city of Chicago,” declared Guadalupe Perez a striking Congress Hotel worker at an Oct. 26 action honoring the strike.

Obama to sign hate crimes bill

October 28, 2009

Eleven years after Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder because he was gay, President Barack Obama will sign the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law this afternoon.

UC panel: Keep higher education public and affordable

October 28, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

BERKELEY, Calif. - Keeping California's public higher education both public and affordable was the theme as a star-studded panel gathered with hundreds of faculty members, students and concerned community members on the University of California campus...