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    Editorials

    December 3, 2004

    The debate in labor After the elections the labor movement emerged bruised but unbowed. A mood of stubborn determination and resistance is settling into union halls and central labor councils. Labor gave its all to defeat...

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  • S.F. hotel workers triumph over lockout

    S.F. hotel workers triumph over lockout

    December 3, 2004 By Marilyn Bechtel And Sonia Siegel

    SAN FRANCISCO — Some 4,300 hotel workers returned to work triumphantly at 14 of this city’s premier hotels last week, after area health providers’ decisions to extend workers’ medical coverage for December and January pulled the...

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  • Equatorial Guinea in the crosshairs

    Equatorial Guinea in the crosshairs

    December 3, 2004

    News Analysis Imperialist conspiracies to seize control of natural resources and to dominate peoples of distant lands are in full swing. Apart from the Iraqi debacle, the events unfolding in the former Spanish colony of Equatorial...

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  • Workers strike the Youngstown Vindicator

    Workers strike the Youngstown Vindicator

    December 3, 2004

    YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Fed up with years of wage freezes and concessions in health care benefits, workers represented by Local 11 of The Newspaper Guild went on strike Nov. 16 against the The Vindicator, a daily...

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  • Cuba honors PWW supporter

    Cuba honors PWW supporter

    December 3, 2004

    Wisconsin Peace and Justice Committee Chairman John Gilman was decorated with the Cuban Medal of Friendship, Nov. 12, in Havana. Sergio Corrieri, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and member of...

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