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  • Labor solidarity backs West Coast dockers

    Labor solidarity backs West Coast dockers

    July 4, 2002

    OAKLAND – Leaders of unions representing transport workers from around the world locked arms at a Solidarity Day rally here on June 27 in support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). The ILWU is...

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  • OHSA finds Beth/Lukens guilty in steelworker death

    OHSA finds Beth/Lukens guilty in steelworker death

    June 28, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

    VALLEY, Pa. – Wanda Smith, 41, a production steel press operator for Bethlehem/Lukens Steel Plate and member of United Steelworkers of America (USWA) Local 1165, went to work December 17, 2001, with her Christmas list almost...

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  • Health damage result of Mideast crisis

    Health damage result of Mideast crisis

    June 28, 2002

    War is the great threat to medical and public health. The tragedies that take place on a daily basis in the Gaza Strip and West Bank are testament to this fact. Palestinian children are facing a...

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  • Airport workers demand living wage be paid

    Airport workers demand living wage be paid

    June 28, 2002

    OAKLAND, Calif. – A lively crowd of more than 50 pickets from several Bay Area unions and community groups marched and chanted slogans in front of the Port of Oakland Building June 18, demanding that the...

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  • Israeli government builds evil fence

    Israeli government builds evil fence

    June 28, 2002

    TEL-AVIV – The Israeli government has begun to erect a so-called “Defensive Fence,” part concrete, part wired net, all with barbed wire and equipped with sophisticated electronic warning systems. In its first stage, the wall will...

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