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  • Students, parents and teachers: March vs. education cuts

    Students, parents and teachers: March vs. education cuts

    April 30, 2004

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Fifty students, parents and teachers spent their spring break marching from San Pablo to Sacramento in a “March 4 Education” to dramatize the financial plight of the West Contra Costa County School District....

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  • Getting paid for overtime

    Getting paid for overtime

    April 30, 2004 By Art Perlo

    After 30 years, I still remember my rage and frustration. I was cleaning up after a hot, hard eight-hour shift at Oregon Steel, when the foreman came into the locker room. “Put your work clothes back...

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  • Cintas workers seek safety and justice

    Cintas workers seek safety and justice

    April 30, 2004

    News analysis Just hearing Cintas workers tell their stories about sorting out wormy, moldy and flammable shop towels without proper ventilation is nauseating. Area clergy took these concerns about intolerable and dangerous health hazards straight to...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    April 30, 2004

    Colombia: Coke unionist’s family killed On April 20 armed men entered the home of the brother-in-law of Coca-Cola union leader Efrain Guerrero, in Bucaramanga, site of one of Coca-Cola’s bottling plants. They killed Efrain’s brother- and...

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  • Proud, happy Israeli whistleblower released

    Proud, happy Israeli whistleblower released

    April 30, 2004

    An unrepentant Mordechai Vanunu – the Israeli whistleblower who confirmed the existence of the country’s nuclear weapons program – left Ashkelon’s Shikma Prison April 21 after serving an 18-year sentence, 11 years of it in solitary...

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