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BBC World Service journalists walk out over outsourcing
February 25, 2009Original source: Furious BBC World Service workers will strike for 24 hours on Thursday over the outsourcing of production. Staff working for the south Asia section are to take part in the strike after the breakdown...
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WORLD NOTES
February 25, 2009Guadeloupe: Strike forces French concessions After a month-long general strike against high prices, low wages and 20 percent unemployment shut down public services, shops, fisheries and businesses in the French colony of Guadeloupe, French President Nicolas...
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The extraordinary life of Marvel Cooke
February 25, 2009Women’s History Month fittingly opens with International Women’s Day, March 8. On March 8, 1908, 15,000 women workers marched through New York’s Lower East Side demanding shorter hours, better pay, a needle trades union, and the...
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Stimulus package to help workers keep health care coverage
February 25, 2009Two important health care measures that were included in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package will begin to be implemented this week and will ensure that millions of working families impacted by the recession are able...
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Closing Guantanamo: many questions remain
February 25, 2009Two days after taking office, President Barack Obama announced that the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be closed by the end of this year at the latest. This step, which was acclaimed worldwide, is...
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