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  • Connecting the dots in health care

    Connecting the dots in health care

    July 16, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Connecting the dots in the U.S. for-profit health care system draws a picture that could provoke outrage, mass action and important victories. Consider the following:

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  • Workers testify: We organize to win respect

    Workers testify: We organize to win respect

    July 16, 2004

    VERSAILLES, Ky. – On July 1, workers from Quebecor World declared their independence a few days early when they testified publicly at Kentucky’s first Workers’ Rights Board hearing. Quebecor, the world’s largest commercial printer, is headquartered...

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  • The economy: theirs and ours

    The economy: theirs and ours

    July 16, 2004 By Art Perlo

    When the most recent Labor Department report showed a gain of only 112,000 jobs in June, far less than the 297,000 average for the previous three months, President Bush claimed it was good news. “We’re witnessing...

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  • Greens pick national ticket, reject Nader

    Greens pick national ticket, reject Nader

    July 16, 2004

    MILWAUKEE – Delegates and guests from around the U.S. and the world met here June 23-28 for “Forward 2004,” the presidential nominating convention of the Green Party of the United States. The voting delegates selected Texas...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    July 16, 2004

    Colombia: Cheaper to shoot unionists than to negotiate A new report by the London-based International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) concludes that in Colombia it’s quicker, cheaper and less risky for employers to kill trade unionists...

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