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Health crisis hits kids
April 30, 2004When you have over 40 million people without any health insurance at all – and another 70 million with limited and poor coverage – while suffering is widespread, some categories of people are at greater risk.
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Telephone employees stand strong in Texas
April 30, 2004DALLAS – Communications Workers of America members are waiting out big contract deadlines, but they aren’t sitting still. They are holding marches and rallies, and they are signing up supporters to switch telephone companies if the...
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Students, parents and teachers: March vs. education cuts
April 30, 2004SACRAMENTO, 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
April 30, 2004After 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
April 30, 2004News 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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