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U of Miami janitors celebrate victory
May 5, 2006CORAL GABLES, Fla. — After two months of struggle, including picket lines, demonstrations and a three-week hunger strike, striking janitors at the University of Miami have won the right to unionize through the method of their...
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Labor summit: Beat Bush agenda, save affirmative action!
May 5, 2006DETROIT — A clarion call for unity was sounded at a Labor Summit on Affirmative Action and Segregation here April 28. Conference-goers heard the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm...
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United we march — Sí se puede!
May 5, 2006It was a May 1 like no other. On the day celebrated around the world as International Workers Day, 2 million-plus people marched in the U.S. for justice and a path to citizenship for immigrant workers.
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Displaced Katrina survivors lose health care benefits
April 29, 2006As Medicaid waivers begin to expire, Katrina evacuees who need health care are growing ever more desperate. In September 2005, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), the federal agency which administers Medicaid, initiated a...
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Thousands pack San Francisco for immigrant rights march
April 29, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — The labor movement, the faith community, a broad spectrum of immigrant rights organizations and just plain folks joined in a river of 15,000 marchers that flooded city streets from the Mission District’s Dolores...
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