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U of M workers victory

November 7, 2003

MINNEAPOLIS – Striking clerical workers at the University of Minnesota have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the university administration and will return to work on Nov. 5. The 1,900 workers, members of...

National Clips

November 7, 2003

MACON, Ga.: Tobacco merger to destroy 14,000 jobs It was not the famous “tobacco settlement” where cigarette corporations are paying billions of dollars to states to cover smoking-related health care costs that forced the closure of...

Canadian health care expert on tour

November 7, 2003

Doug Allan, a Toronto-based trade union health care researcher and health coalition organizer, will be speaking on “Lessons from Canada’s Public Health Care System” in a series of three events in the eastern United States this...

Marlins cruise, Yankees lose

October 31, 2003 By Chas Walker

The Thrill and the Agony This week in sports by Chas Walker The Florida Marlins stunned the baseball world by defeating the New York Yankees 4 games to 2 in the World Series. Few expected such...

Hold Wal-Mart accountable

October 31, 2003

Opinion All across the country Wal-Mart is cashing in on family tragedies. After Doug Sims, a Wal-Mart employee in Plainview, Texas, died of a heart attack in 1998, his wife, Jane, found out exactly what Wal-Mart...