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Workers comp cut is gift to bosses
January 14, 2005Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger slashed the California workers’ compensation law to gain the support of employers and insurance carriers. It was nothing new for Republican politicians to attack a system, which is difficult to understand, and at...
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Nurses strike St. Louis hospital: This is all labors fight
January 14, 2005ST. LOUIS (PAI) — With the St. John’s Hospital nurses strike stretching on for weeks, the St. Louis labor community turned out in force to demonstrate solidarity behind these angels of mercy standing up for their...
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Big lies, little lies, & statistics
January 14, 2005There’s a retirement crisis facing older workers. The bosses tell us they can’t meet pension obligations because there are too many retirees and not enough active workers. They use the same argument to explain why they...
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N.Y. drug laws slightly reformed
January 14, 2005NEW YORK — In what is seen to be a small, forced step forward, Gov. George Pataki signed into law Dec. 14 a bill that slightly modifies the state’s notorious Rockefeller Drug Laws (RDL), which impose...
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WORLD NOTES
January 14, 2005Haiti: Paychecks for death squad killers The U.S.-backed Haitian government has begun to hand out paychecks to former members of Haiti’s brutal military who helped overthrow democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. David Bazile, secretary for public...
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