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Workers charge Red Cross with unfair labor practices

October 9, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky

ST. LOUIS – “I’ve worked 96 hours in a single week,” Jason Withey, a Red Cross driver from Buffalo, N.Y., told the World here on Oct. 8. “I could live better working at Wal-Mart.”

Thompson: Treatment of Stella d’Oro workers ‘disgraceful’

October 9, 2009 By Dan Margolis

Brynwood Partners, which owns cookie-manufacturer Stella d’Oro has drawn the ire of city Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, who said the private equity firm’s actions are “disgraceful.

Seven arrested at CIGNA demanding ‘profits out of health care’

October 8, 2009 By John Bachtell

Seven health care activists were arrested when the refused to leave the lobby of CIGNA insurance company after they were denied a meeting with corporate executives.

Farmworkers seek justice for tobacco cutters

October 8, 2009

Hundreds of delegates with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) convened in Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 3, during their 11th national convention.

Time running out for ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

October 8, 2009 By John Wojcik

In the last several days support for lifting the ban on gays serving openly in the military has been surfacing on numerous fronts, leading even those who have been critical of the Obama administration for not...