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Safeway janitors stop work, tired of intimidation
February 12, 2010Frustrated by the intimidation tactics of Safeway's janitorial services contractors, janitors who clean Safeway supermarkets in northern California stopped work on the night of Feb. 10.
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A blizzard of nonsense
February 12, 2010Despite right-wingers' igloo jokes, more snow is actually more proof of global warming.
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Capitalist hypocrisy and Eastern European anti-communism
February 12, 2010There is a new push in the Czech Republic to bar the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia from running candidates for public office or otherwise functioning like other political parties.
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The background behind Toyota recall
February 12, 2010The underlying cause, says a Japanese labor researcher, is the company's stress on "low cost" in pursuit of high profits, at the expense of its workers and consumer safety.
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Anthem Blue Cross – poster child for urgency of health reform
February 11, 2010With its move to raise premiums on individual policyholders in California by up to 39 percent, Anthem Blue Cross enraged customers and elected officials.
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