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L.A. hotel workers reach tentative pact
June 17, 2005Only moments before some 2,500 workers at seven major Los Angeles hotels were to be locked out by their employers, leaders of UNITE HERE Local 11 and the L.A. Hotel Employers’ Council (EC) reached a tentative...
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Calif. labor vows fight in special election
June 17, 2005California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped the proverbial other shoe June 13 with a long-anticipated announcement that a special election headlining his proposed ballot measures will be held Nov. 8. The governor made his announcement, foreshadowed in...
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National Clips
June 17, 2005E. PALO ALTO, Calif.: ‘Evict hazardous waste plant’ “When I take a shower, I itch; and I won’t drink the tap water,” testified Rosie Solorzano, 15, who has lived her entire life a block from U.S....
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New Haven concert builds labor-neighbor solidarity
June 17, 2005News Analysis NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After a year of door knocking and organizing, neighborhood activists who have joined forces with the union organizing drive at Yale New Haven Hospital decided it was time to hold...
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Storm erupts over Patriot Act
June 17, 2005WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) was so enraged by a witness from Amnesty International USA, who linked the Patriot Act to torture at secret U.S. detention facilities around the world, that he...
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