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Continuing Crystal Eastmans work
March 16, 2007Workers Memorial Day is a day to remember those who have been injured or died on the job, and to renew the fight for safe workplaces. This year the Allegheny County Labor Council, in Pittsburgh, Pa.,...
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Unions: Enough talk, time for action on health care
March 16, 2007The AFL-CIO Executive council voted unanimously at its March 6 meeting in Las Vegas to endorse universal national health care coverage for all Americans under a plan in which government plays a central role in regulating,...
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18 months after Katrina, little progress
March 16, 2007Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, broke the levees and flooded his home in the city’s Lower 9th Ward, Allsee Tobias and 20 of his relatives, including 10 children, are relocating once again. Last...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
March 16, 2007TACOMA, Wash.: 31 antiwar protesters arrested at port Eight antiwar demonstrators were arrested earlier this month when they crossed a white police line separating them from the Port of Tacoma. The shipping port is a loading...
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With 100 dead, action urged to curb house fires
March 16, 2007Jim Harmes, president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, told the World he has been a firefighter for over 35 years, and “I don’t remember when there have been so many multiple-death house fires as...
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