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No paid leave raises level of flu danger
November 5, 2004WASHINGTON (PAI) — Lack of paid sick leave in the U.S. may force flu-ridden employees — men and women who caught the flu and didn’t get shots due to lack of vaccine — to work when...
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ChicagoCity college teachers on strike
November 5, 2004CHICAGO (PAI) — Management demands to load $2,000 in increased health care costs on each worker each year, plus its insistence on higher workloads, forced teachers at Chicago’s city/community colleges into their first strike in 27...
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Workers encouraged in S.F. hotel dispute
November 5, 2004SAN FRANCISCO — As the lockout of 4,000 hotel workers by the 14-hotel Multi-Employer Group continued here, workers and their union, UNITE HERE Local 2, were encouraged by several developments: • On Oct. 28, the State...
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Expensive oil and imperialist war
November 5, 2004In February 2003, Ari Fleischer, then George W. Bush’s press secretary, brushed off millions of demonstrators worldwide demanding “No war for oil!” If the assault on Iraq was for cheap oil, Fleischer said, the U.S. could...
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Firms export jobs
November 5, 2004Book Review Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas By Lou Dobbs Warner Books, 2004 Hardcover, 208 pp., $19.95 Lou Dobbs is a television business journalist and, he says proudly, a lifelong Republican....
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