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Hotel workers hit the bricks for fair contracts
August 4, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — Hotel workers on both sides of San Francisco Bay took to the streets last week in their struggles for fair union contracts. Over 1,400 members and supporters of Unite Here Local 2 marched...
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Workers signing union cards at Yale-New Haven Hospital
August 4, 2006NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “Nobody can take away your courage,” said Carmen Boudier, president of New England 1199 SEIU, to a large audience of workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital who came to sign up for the...
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Coming to a town near you: the battle over immigrant rights
August 4, 2006NewsAnalysisAction in Congress on immigrant rights legislation is suspended at least until the fall session. But action is intensifying in state legislatures, in municipal councils and within the nooks and crannies of our social system. The...
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Huge oil profits linked to economic slowdown
August 4, 2006WASHINGTON — Exxon Mobil reported $10.4 billion in second quarter profits July 27, the second highest quarterly profits for any publicly traded company in U.S. history. Shell profits jumped 40 percent to $7.32 billion in the...
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Detroit gears up for Labor Day
August 4, 2006Friends of the People’s Weekly World are planning a major distribution of the paper at Detroit’s Labor Day parade, which routinely draws tens of thousands of people. John Rummel, who is organizing the distribution, said that...
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