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The health bridge is falling down

March 14, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Ever heard of COBRA? You probably have if you lost a job and were offered the opportunity to keep your health coverage. Under the 1986 Consolidated Omnibus Benefit Reconciliation Act (COBRA), workers who are laid off...

State employees win union rights

March 14, 2003

ALBUQUERQUE – After 10 years of bitter struggle, New Mexico state employees finally won back their collective bargaining rights when Governor Bill Richardson signed into law these rights at a Round House Ceremony, March 7. Present...

WOMENS HISTORY MONTH: I helped organize the CIO

March 14, 2003 By Beatrice Lumpkin

I was not quite 19 but I answered the call to help organize the laundry workers of New York City. In two months, our staff of 30, half of us Communists, organized 20,000 workers.

International notes

March 14, 2003

Turkey: Torches for peace Students, professors and workers lit torches symbolizing the light of life and peace at universities around the country on March 3, in an action organized by the Communist Party of Turkey. The...

Labor leaders to Bush: Stop bullying Mexico

March 14, 2003

Leaders of the nation’s main farm labor organizations sent a letter on March 10 to President George Bush expressing their “outrage over the heavy-handed tactics” employed by his administration against the government of Mexico. Dolores Huerta,...