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Univ. of Chicago Medical Center nurses authorize strike
September 9, 2019Some 67% of nurses told NNU surveyors a patient or a visitor threatened them, while 32% had been kicked and 28% had been hit or had an object – including chairs -- thrown at them.
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Por la libertad de los presos políticos
September 9, 2019"Un encuentro muy importante por la situación política de nuestro país y nuestro continente", señaló Malena Silveyra, de la Liga Argentina por los Derechos Humanos, que dio apertura al II Encuentro Americano "Derechos Humanos para la...
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Jobs numbers conceal real unemployment and underemployment rate of 7.2%
September 6, 2019130,000 new jobs last month—but 20% of them were census temps. “This isn’t a very strong employment report,” AFL-CIO chief economist William Spriggs said.
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D.C. area bus systems share one characteristic—mistreating workers
September 6, 2019“We believe this upcoming contract will determine the fate of public transportation and economic justice for our entire region," workers say.
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The art of ‘The Heal,’ Sophocles’s ‘Philoctetes’ in a Malibu amphitheater
September 6, 2019The production, performed in front of an ancient Roman-style villa that is a repository of relics wrought contemporaneously when Sophocles created his dramas, is suffused with philosophical musings.
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