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  • Reflections on New Mexicos minimum wage fight

    Reflections on New Mexicos minimum wage fight

    March 10, 2006

    Commentary New Mexico has just gone through two major campaigns to enact a higher minimum wage law. One was a ballot referendum in Albuquerque in November 2005. The other was to pass a bill in the...

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  • Globalization and women workers

    Globalization and women workers

    March 10, 2006

    Is the “globalization” that George Bush supports good or, at least, inevitable, as people from the capitalist class claim? And what impact has it had on women workers? Tuberculosis and malnutrition are global, and becoming more...

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  • 98.6  a healthy number

    98.6 a healthy number

    March 3, 2006

    Ninety-eight point six is a symbol of good health and that’s the percent of members of Change to Win unions in California whose locals have submitted solidarity charters and are now considered full members of the...

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  • The World of Peggy Lipschutz: Women, workers, angels  soul of her purposeful art

    The World of Peggy Lipschutz: Women, workers, angels soul of her purposeful art

    March 3, 2006 By Susan Webb

    Peggy Lipschutz, 87, picked up a small brush and eyed an unfinished painting. She added a dab of color to the figure of an older woman sitting in thought, with an angel in the background.

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  • Wal-Mart and Henry Ford

    Wal-Mart and Henry Ford

    March 3, 2006 By Art Perlo

    Wal-Mart is known for the huge profits it has accumulated for the Walton family and its Wall Street backers. It is also known for low pay and savage opposition to workers’ rights.

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