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  • LETTERS: Oct. 6

    LETTERS: Oct. 6

    October 5, 2007

    Terrible UAW contract I just read my PWW and your coverage of the negative aspects of the new UAW contract was bad. You did not report on how retirees will not get their health benefits from...

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  • EDITORIAL: Sexual harassment hurts all

    EDITORIAL: Sexual harassment hurts all

    October 5, 2007

    Every day women go to work and have to face various kinds of gender discrimination — an unfair wage differential, discrimination in health and other benefits, lack of advancement opportunities, and sexual harassment. Title VII of...

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  • Talks continue after first-ever security workers strike

    Talks continue after first-ever security workers strike

    October 5, 2007

    SAN FRANCISCO — Talks for a new contract continued this week after workers who provide security in prime downtown office buildings returned to their jobs Sept. 27 following a first-ever three-day strike. Workers, members of SEIU...

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  • Critics call Cuban blockade genocide

    Critics call Cuban blockade genocide

    October 5, 2007

    Cuba plans soon to introduce its annual resolution before the UN General Assembly against the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Nations siding with Cuba have gone from 59 in 1992 to 183 last year. At a press...

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  • NATIONAL CLIPS: Oct. 6

    NATIONAL CLIPS: Oct. 6

    October 5, 2007 By Denise Winebrenner Edwards

    BOULDER, Colo.: Students walk out protesting pledge KANSAS CITY, Mo.: Churches offer shelter to undocumented workers MILWAUKEE: March celebrates struggle to desegregate housing SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Republicans abandon ‘stealth’ election trick

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