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Racism remains factor in health
February 1, 2002The economic boom of the 1990s brought improved health conditions for most people in the United States. It wasn’t a dramatic increase, more like a trickle-down effect. Federal dollars went into the health system due to...
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Drug price campaign starts
February 1, 2002COLUMBUS, Ohio – A statewide campaign for passage of the Prescription Drug Fair Pricing Act (HB-290) was announced here Jan. 22. The legislation, the state senate draft of which is SB-127, is similar to that passed...
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Major victory at Chicagos V&V
February 1, 2002CHICAGO – On Jan. 21, production workers at V&V Supremo Cheese in the mostly Mexican Pilsen community here voted to ratify their first union contract. They had voted more than a year ago to be represented...
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Working families economic forum
February 1, 2002NEW YORK – The global union movement will explore how today’s global economy drives down living standards for working people worldwide in a Working Families Economic Forum here Jan. 31.
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1,000 demonstrate for Ohio schoolworkers
February 1, 2002JEFFERSON, Ohio – Over 1,000 strong, organized labor took to the streets here Jan. 26 in support of their striking brothers and sisters in the Ohio Association of Public School Employees (OAPSE)/American Federation of State, County...
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