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  • Can both worker rights and civil rights win in hotel talks?

    Can both worker rights and civil rights win in hotel talks?

    November 5, 2004

    In the current hotel conflict, most attention has focused on the proposed contract length and the dispute over who pays health care benefits. But another issue also separates the two sides — civil rights and the...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    November 5, 2004

    Now what? No matter who sits in the Oval Office, our society is plagued with problems: the gap between the Haves and Have-nots grows exponentially. Our prison system is bursting at the seams with mentally ill...

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  • Grassroots organizing wins big at America West

    Grassroots organizing wins big at America West

    November 5, 2004

    The announcement of victory spread to airports across the nation at lightning speed after the nearly 3,200 customer service representatives at America West won their union election on Aug. 17. It was the largest union election...

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  • EPA pays families to expose kids to pesticides

    EPA pays families to expose kids to pesticides

    November 5, 2004

    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is paying selected Florida families who “spray or have pesticides sprayed inside your home routinely” to study their infant children, according to agency documents released today by Public Employees...

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  • No paid leave raises level of flu danger

    No paid leave raises level of flu danger

    November 5, 2004

    WASHINGTON (PAI) — Lack of paid sick leave in the U.S. may force flu-ridden employees — men and women who caught the flu and didn’t get shots due to lack of vaccine — to work when...

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