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Using OSHA to win victories: the case of Cintas
December 14, 2007There is a tendency among U.S. trade union leaders, shop stewards and rank-and-file activists to strongly distrust federal and state agencies charged with protecting workers’ health and safety — and therefore not to utilize them. While...
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Report: Step up fight vs. AIDS among Latinos
December 14, 2007CHICAGO — Last October the Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness, a coalition of health-related groups here, released a report titled “A Call To Action: Regarding HIV/AIDS Among Illinois’ Latino Communities” that investigated the community’s current...
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Blue Diamond Growers guilty, panel says
December 14, 2007SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As over 200 union and community supporters gathered at a Nov. 18 town hall forum on the labor situation at Blue Diamond Growers, a panel of elected officials and community representatives found the...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR: Dec. 15
December 14, 2007Labor cites the Bush record The AFL-CIO reported this month that since Bush has been in office, 5 million Americans have slipped out of the “middle class” into poverty and 8.5 million people have lost their...
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WORLD NOTES: Dec. 15
December 14, 2007South Africa: Mine owners’ profits ‘dripping in blood,’ say strikers Over 270,000 members of South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers engaged in a one-day strike Dec. 4 that closed down the world’s largest gold and platinum...
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