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Almond workers voices travel far
August 11, 2006OAKLAND, Calif. — The story of hundreds of workers seeking a union at a California almond processing plant is increasingly being heard around the state and around the world. Faced with their employer’s union-busting efforts, the...
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Stop playing games with minimum wage
August 11, 2006Labor, community groups vow to press forward for a real minimum wage hikeA Republican bill that hid a huge, wolfish tax break for the wealthy inside the sheep’s clothing of an increase in the minimum wage...
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N.J. nurses hold the line
August 4, 2006News Analysis ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — The struggle by 660 striking nurses at Englewood Hospital faces a double uphill fight. The strikers, members of Health Professional and Allied Employees (HPAE-AFT), is dealing with a notoriously anti-labor employer...
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Coulter crap: Dont ignore it, expose it
August 4, 2006BOOK REVIEW Godless: The Church of Liberalism By Ann Coulter Crown Forum 2006, Hardcover, 320 pages Why would Ann Coulter dedicate the last one-third of her latest book to attacking science? More specifically, why would this...
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Asian American actors career was forged by struggle
August 4, 2006Mako, the Japan-born actor who used his Oscar nomination for the 1966 film “The Sand Pebbles” to push for better roles for Asian American actors, died July 21. He was 72. Mako, whose birth name was...
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