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  • Supreme Court backs OSHA scofflaw employers

    Supreme Court backs OSHA scofflaw employers

    July 25, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

    A recent Supreme Court decision has given employers a free hand in excluding workers who may have a preexisting health condition. In this case the preexisting health condition would be one which might become worse given...

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  • Janitors win with picket

    Janitors win with picket

    July 25, 2002

    ST. LOUIS – The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 50 recently won another victory against Mitch Murch Maintenance Management (4M), a member of the Contract Cleaners Association (CCA). Local 50 has been in contract negotiations...

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  • Laundry workers demand justice from BBJ

    Laundry workers demand justice from BBJ

    July 25, 2002

    CHICAGO – “What’s disgusting? Union Busting! What’s outrageous? Sweatshop wages!” chanted 100 BBJ Linen workers and their supporters. The protesters were picketing at the main gate of the Lincoln Park Zoo July 12, while wealthy patrons...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    July 25, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

    Ecuador: Banana workers fight for union/Vietnam: Gov’t sets 2003 social & economic agenda/Burkina Faso: Thousands march vs. privatization/New Zealand: Unions say overwork hurts families/Cuba: Education a continuing priority

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  • Wo-Chi-Ca book offers glimpse of camp

    Wo-Chi-Ca book offers glimpse of camp

    July 25, 2002

    Book ReviewTales of Wo-Chi-Ca: Blacks, Whites and Reds at Camp, by June Levine and Eugene Gordon, Avon Springs Press, 235 pages. There have been a number of books published in recent years that have surveyed the...

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