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N.Y. labor mobilizes to end Iraq war
October 19, 2007NEW YORK CITY — The mobilization for the Oct. 27 peace demonstration here is now in full swing. A significant number of New York-area labor unions have endorsed the action. So far, 15 unions from New...
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RNs strike over patient care
October 19, 2007BERKELEY, Calif. — Nearly 5,000 registered nurses at 15 northern California hospitals walked the picket line Oct. 10-11 in the largest strike of RNs in the state in a decade. Most struck hospitals belong to the...
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Up to a third of U.S. jobs are low-wage, researcher says
October 19, 2007Fighting poverty is ‘moral’ issue> WASHINGTON (PAI) — “One-fourth to one-third” of all U.S. jobs “are low-wage jobs” whose workers need not just a raise, but a support system to help lift them out of poverty,...
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Save home hotline launched
October 19, 2007CLEVELAND — More help is now available to union members caught in the mounting home mortgage crisis, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said at a press conference here Oct. 15. Sweeney unveiled a free, confidential 24-hour Save...
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Colombian scores second hung jury
October 19, 2007The most recent trial in Washington, D.C., of Ricardo Palmera, a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), ended in a hung jury on Oct. 4. Palmera, 57, was extradited to the U.S. in...
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