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  • Texans mark Workers Memorial Day

    Texans mark Workers Memorial Day

    May 6, 2005

    TEXAS CITY, Texas — A Workers Memorial Day ceremony here at the Steelworkers/PACE union hall paid tribute to 67 union members killed on the job this year and the many other victims of workplace accidents and...

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  • Reporter’s Notebook

    Reporter’s Notebook

    May 6, 2005

    I once was part of a union group that was taken on a tour of a new high-tech hospital. Our guide was an earnest young woman, a physician, who had been elected as the union leader...

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  • Workers threaten strike to clean up laundries

    Workers threaten strike to clean up laundries

    May 6, 2005

    Thousands of laundry workers who process hospital and nursing home linens voted to strike May 5 if necessary to win living wages and safe working conditions. Working under expired contracts, employees at seven facilities of Angelica,...

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  • Capital campaign reaches $200,000

    Capital campaign reaches $200,000

    May 6, 2005

    CHICAGO — The campaign to raise $400,000 for three modern centers of education and struggle in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York reached the halfway point last week. The tax-deductible N.Y.-based Chelsea Fund for Education and...

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  • May Day lives!: CPUSA hosts May 1 reception

    May Day lives!: CPUSA hosts May 1 reception

    May 6, 2005

    NEW YORK — The Communist Party USA hosted a reception celebrating May Day at its national headquarters here following the successful peace rally in Central Park. The event was a stirring end to a long day...

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