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  • Union to picket petrol station over porn

    Union to picket petrol station over porn

    June 29, 2009

    A branch of the Syndicalist trade union has threatened strike action at a petrol station in northern Sweden if managers refuses to remove pornographic material from the shelves. The union's Umeå branch plans to picket the...

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  • Turkey’s sex workers seek to establish a union

    Turkey’s sex workers seek to establish a union

    June 29, 2009

    Reposted from http://www.hurriyet.com.tr Turkey's sex workers seek to establish a union ISTANBUL – Activists and sex workers in Turkey are working on a project to establish Turkey’s first sex workers union. They are hopeful about finding...

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  • Health reform? Women say it’s about work, wages

    Health reform? Women say it’s about work, wages

    June 29, 2009

    Original source: (WOMENSENEWS)--As the battle to reform U.S. health care heats up, Cindy Pearson is staying focused. 'This push is our No. 1 priority now,' says Pearson, executive director of the Washington-based National Women's Health Network....

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  • Attorney General seeks review of cocaine sentencing laws

    Attorney General seeks review of cocaine sentencing laws

    June 29, 2009

    Original source: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers that it was time to close the gap in prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine crimes, a disparity in sentencing that has had a large impact...

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  • Ludlow massacre site dedicated as national landmark

    Ludlow massacre site dedicated as national landmark

    June 29, 2009

    Original source: Mine Workers (UMWA) leaders, union activists, lawmakers and historians will dedicate the site of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre—one of the bloodiest chapters in the nation’s labor history—as a National Historic Landmark. On April 20,...

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