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Grocery unions call for arbitration

February 6, 2004 By Joseph Hancock

Presidents of the seven locals of striking and locked out Southern California grocery workers appeared in simultaneous press conferences in Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Palm Desert and San Diego on Feb. 4 making public a joint letter...

National Clips

February 5, 2004

GREENWICH, Conn.: Bush feels street heat in arctic air High school students sent out the call and 500 showed up to protest Bush as he stopped in to pick up $1,000 checks at a campaign fundraiser....

Act now to free Marcus Dixon

February 5, 2004

Marcus Dixon is sitting in jail because of racist injustice. Dixon, a Black teenager on his way to college, is instead serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual sex when he was 18 years old...

The struggle for the right to organize a union

January 30, 2004

While 45 percent of U.S. workers express the desire to have a union, only 13 percent have one. Using bold, repressive and mostly illegal methods, corporate America has held new organizing to a tiny trickle as...

Letters

January 30, 2004

Illegal detentions Conceivably, the United States government, by holding prisoners incommunicado at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba, has relinquished legal responsibility for due process according to law. With evidence that most detainees may not know the...