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  • Injury, illness prevention now city policy

    Injury, illness prevention now city policy

    July 18, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    On June 17, 2003, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted an historic principle of public health that should be an example for every municipality and for the nation itself. The term they used is “precautionary...

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  • Dont privatize care for the disabled

    Dont privatize care for the disabled

    July 18, 2003

    News Analysis HARTFORD, Conn. – The outside thermometer said 90, but the temperature was more than sizzling last Thursday when the State Department of Mental Retardation (DMR) refused to allow 20 family members of group home...

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  • Vietnams socialist market economy

    Vietnams socialist market economy

    July 18, 2003 By Erwin Marquit

    Vietnam shifted to a socialist market economy in 1986 after failing to meet economic output targets of its five-year plans. Similar problems began to appear in the mid-1970s in the USSR and European socialist countries. Under...

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  • Landslide victory for Head Start workers

    Landslide victory for Head Start workers

    July 18, 2003

    Union density for Head Start workers in San Diego County reached 100 percent when 186 workers at Episcopal Community Services (ECS) Head Start recently voted 168-7 for Service Employees International Union Local 2028. Now employees will...

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  • Organizing at America West

    Organizing at America West

    July 18, 2003

    Chara, from Tucson, Ariz., sends the following report about the organizing campaign of customer service representatives (CSRs) at America West Airlines. I am a CSR of 19 years, and I am an organizer. This is the...

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