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  • Oakland City Council OKs card-check measure

    Oakland City Council OKs card-check measure

    March 10, 2006

    OAKLAND, Calif. — This city became the first to tell a cable company it must agree to recognize a union based on card check when the City Council late last month passed an ordinance requiring city...

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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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  • ANC wins big vote in local elections

    ANC wins big vote in local elections

    March 10, 2006

    The African National Congress won two-thirds of the vote in the March 1 local elections in South Africa, handily defeating its closest rival, the Democratic Alliance, which won 16 percent. The Inkatha Freedom Party won 8...

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  • S. African women helped crush apartheid

    S. African women helped crush apartheid

    March 10, 2006

    The 1950s marked a turbulent period in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. At the beginning of the decade, the apartheid regime banned the South African Communist Party, a longtime, militant foe of racism and inequality....

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