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Labor to lawmakers: Dont weaken workplace standards
February 3, 2009California labor leaders are warning that the state’s $42 billion budget gap, which has grown greatly in recent months as the economic crisis deepens, must not be resolved at the expense of the state’s working families....
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Star Tribune bankruptcy imperils 1,400 Minnesota jobs
February 3, 2009Reposted from Workday Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS - The Star Tribune's move to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy puts 1,400 local workers' jobs in limbo. About two-thirds of the workers at the state's largest newspaper are union members....
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Ghana: Voters also go for change they can believe in
February 3, 2009On Jan. 7, John Evan Ata Mills was sworn in as the new President of Ghana, the third since the country became a multiparty democracy in 1992. Mills and his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC),...
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24,000 workers postpone strike for talks
February 3, 2009A STRIKE by 24,000 US oil refinery workers was averted on Sunday after both sides had agreed to extend negotiations. Workers at refineries near New Orleans, Houston and Billings, Montana, will turn up for their shifts...
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World Social Forum: presidents for feminist socialism
February 2, 2009BELÉM, Brazil, Jan 30 (IPS) - 'True socialism is feminist,' and is already being built, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, standing next to three other South American presidents, all of them men, at a dialogue that...
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