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Health care union kicks off coordinated bargaining
February 27, 2008OAKLAND, Calif. — Health care workers represented by United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW) kicked off their campaign to renegotiate nearly 200 hospital and nursing home contracts covering over 75,000 workers with a spirited march and rally Feb....
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BPs Texas City refinery leads nation in deaths
February 27, 2008HOUSTON – According to the Houston Chronicle, British Petroleum’s (BP) Texas City refinery has killed more workers than any other in the nation. Following the catastrophic disaster that killed 15 workers in March 2005 at the...
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Definitive analysis of primary election
February 27, 2008This post considers only the narrow issue of who is going to get the Democratic nomination. It does not pretend to be balanced. It is, however, absolutely certain, scientific, factual and free of any wishful or...
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Houston surges against the ultra-right
February 27, 2008HOUSTON – Early voting started in Texas Feb. 19, and votes in the Democratic primaries here in Harris County have already surpassed the total votes in all of the early voting period in 2004, according to...
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City-wide contract to lift thousands of Indy janitors out of poverty
February 27, 2008INDIANAPOLIS – On Thursday, Feb. 21 a three-year effort by 1,500 Indianapolis janitors to form a union with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) culminated as representatives of Local 3 headed to the bargaining table. They...
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