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CALIFORNIA Health care bill under fire

May 7, 2004

The health care crisis faced by California’s workers has legislators and even some businesses seeking a solution. Nearly 7 million Californians are uninsured – 80 percent of them from working families. The passage of SB 2,...

Its dog eat dog in textile

May 7, 2004

Workers’ correspondence I recall being told when I was very young that if I worked hard for my employer I would always have a job. This may have been true decades ago, but today it’s dog...

UAW Local 259 fights for dignity and respect

May 7, 2004

NEW YORK – Auto mechanics, members of United Auto Workers Local 259 working at New York City car dealer Star Toyota, have been out on strike for nearly eight months. The mechanics had been working without...

Bloody fiasco must end

May 7, 2004 By David Eisenhower

Enough. The colonial pipedreams of G.W. Bush’s gang of neo-conservatives is creating a humanitarian and military catastrophe in Iraq.

HAITI Crisis continues

May 7, 2004

As the United Nations prepared to send a peacekeeping force to Haiti, armed gangs continued to hold sway in the country, while the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and Venezuela refused to recognize the U.S.-installed interim government. Late...