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Ohio voters demand affordable medicine
August 30, 2002CLEVELAND, Ohio – The five-million-strong Ohio Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs is “fed up with legislative stonewalling.” An “Initiative Petition,” filed July 2, has lain in limbo with no action for over a month in Ohio...
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Yale workers battle Ivy league economics
August 30, 2002Job security, classifications, promotions and pensions are at stake when 4,000 Yale workers take a strike authorization vote on Sept. 4, as well as the right of graduate teachers and hospital workers to organize. But for...
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TWU launches save the fare struggle
August 30, 2002Workers Correspondence As our local union prepares to negotiate a labor contract with New York City Transit, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proclaimed that a $2.00 subway fare was in the offing. The current fare is $1.50....
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No-match letters: anti-union weapon
August 30, 2002“No-match” letters have become the weapon of choice as employers and the government step up their attack on immigrant workers. The Social Security Administration sends these letters to employers advising them that information in the administration’s...
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March to support HERE workers
August 30, 2002CHICAGO – Even with the threat of rain looming, almost 5,000 people, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 1 members, families, and supporters marched through the “Magnificent Mile” shopping and hotel district for better wages,...
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