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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    February 27, 2004

    End U.S.-backed bloodshed in Haiti! Haiti is in deep crisis, with so-called rebels overrunning the country’s second-largest city, Cap-Haitien, and threatening to attack the capital, Port-au-Prince, in a bid to violently overthrow the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand...

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  • March 4 action for health care rights

    March 4 action for health care rights

    February 27, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Jobs with Justice and hundreds of local unions, retiree groups and health care advocacy organizations, including the Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN), have set a national “Health Care Action Day” to link workers’ struggles against...

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  • Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract

    Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract

    February 27, 2004

    The big issue in our contract was health care, which is also the major issue in California, where 70,000 members of our union (United Food and Commercial Workers) are on strike. We took a collection in...

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  • Wall Street loves Bush budget

    Wall Street loves Bush budget

    February 27, 2004 By Art Perlo

    Under the Bush administration, the federal debt has reached record dollar amounts. The latest budget, which claims to cut the deficit in half in five years, is a work of fiction – under the Bush program,...

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  • Southwest, the LUV airline, is a heart-breaker

    Southwest, the LUV airline, is a heart-breaker

    February 27, 2004

    DALLAS – Flight attendants in Transport Workers Union Local 556 sent a powerful Valentine’s Day message to the bosses at Southwest Airlines Feb. 13 with informational pickets and rallies at all seven major airports served. There...

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