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Texans mark Workers Memorial Day
May 6, 2005TEXAS 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
May 6, 2005I 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
May 6, 2005Thousands 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
May 6, 2005CHICAGO — 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 6, 2005NEW 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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