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  • Pages from workers lives  Love and union

    Pages from workers lives Love and union

    February 4, 2005

    Love and union The merger last summer of the Union of Needletrade, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees was the reflection of an earlier “merger” which took place on a...

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  • Policy wonks project key health care issues

    Policy wonks project key health care issues

    February 4, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

    A year-end report from the Commonwealth Fund highlights core, mainstream health care issues. These, in turn, show some key points of struggle in 2005.

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  • The myth of capitalist efficiency

    The myth of capitalist efficiency

    February 4, 2005 By Greg Godwin

    The Great Depression shattered the myth that capitalism—a for-profit market economy—constituted a fail-safe, efficient system of economic organization. Before the Great Crash and the free fall of the world economies (excepting the Soviet Union), orthodoxy insisted...

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  • D.C. hotel employees OK pact

    D.C. hotel employees OK pact

    February 4, 2005

    WASHINGTON (PAI) — Using the presidential inauguration as leverage, workers at Washington, D.C.’s top hotels reached a new three-year contract with major downtown chain-owned hotels. Local 25 set its strike deadline after learning the hotels planned...

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  • Care providers win two-month strike

    Care providers win two-month strike

    February 4, 2005

    Should taxpayer money go to the creation of poverty wage jobs? Should public dollars go to virulently anti-union companies? A resounding “no” was the answer in Portland, Ore. when 85 workers at the Parry Center, a...

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