News
Head Start workers fight for their jobs
June 14, 2009PROVIDENCE, R.I. — “We built Head Start,” said Barbara Lewis. “We are Head Start. We just lost our jobs.”
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Join the UFCW in celebrating Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
June 14, 2009Original source: In June of 2000, Bill Clinton deemed the month of June “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” The month was chosen to remember the Stonewall riots in 1969 in Manhattan. Instead of backing down to...
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President Obama pledges to sign tobacco bill
June 13, 2009In remarks from the White House lawn June 12 President Obama welcomed the passage of a bill in Congress this week that will impose strong regulations on tobacco products, and he signaled his intention to sign...
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Women’s movement in Iran’s presidential elections
June 13, 2009The ancient country of Iran in the last two centuries has witnessed many internal and regional political crises. The major internal political events in the last 150 years include the attack by Tsarist Russia on Iran,...
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Letters
June 12, 2009USW knows Koch Re: “Anti-union, anti-gov’t group takes aim at public health plan,” www.pww.org/article/articleview/15783/: The Koch family is well known to the USW (United Steelworkers). A few years back they bought Georgia Pacific, a company with...
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