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Single-payer universal health care can be a reality!
July 6, 2007Workers’ Correspondence ”Of all the forms of inequality, the injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. All of us have encountered one problem or another with our...
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A little health education for FOX and CBS
July 6, 2007FOX Broadcasting and CBS reached new lows of hypocrisy and pandering to the ultra-right on reproductive rights, sex and contraception when they recently refused to air ads for condoms. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has offered...
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Big cheers for Family and Medical Leave Act
July 6, 2007AFL-CIO blogger Mike Hall writes, “When the Department of Labor in December asked workers and employers to comment on their experiences with regulations that implement the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), many observers believed it...
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July 7 THIS WEEK IN LABOR
July 6, 2007Moldy food found at Farmer Joe’s; How about American Vulture?; Farm workers toil in extreme heat; Fast track dies; We’d deliver, but our bosses won’t let us
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July 7 NATIONAL CLIPS
July 6, 2007LOS ANGELES: Mayors stand up for cities: U.S. out of Iraq Providence, R.I., Mayor David Cicilline introduced a resolution before the 224 mayors attending the U.S. Conference of Mayor’s annual meeting saying, “We support the troops...
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