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This week in labor

November 18, 2005

Kentucky AFL-CIO: ‘De-privatize health care’ The Kentucky AFL-CIO and the Central New Mexico Central Labor Council are the latest labor backers of HR 676, legislation for single-payer national health care. In their recent convention, Bluegrass State...

Medicare Part D is a dog

November 18, 2005

Medicare has no control over the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan. It is the insurance companies and HMOs who will run Part D. Of course they will do this for their own profit. And Medicare...

CARA convention vows to fight Bush agenda

November 18, 2005

LOS ANGELES — On the heels of a stunning Special Election victory, the California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA) held its second annual convention, “Turning outrage into action,” in Anaheim Nov. 9-10. The first day was...

Lorain voters defeat Wal-Mart

November 18, 2005

LORAIN, Ohio — A union-community coalition delivered a sharp rebuke to Wal-Mart Corp. in the Nov. 8 election here. Voters in this northern Ohio steel center overwhelmingly defeated a ballot referendum that would have permitted city...

Republicans thrashed in Tucson

November 18, 2005

TUCSON, Ariz. — Voters here dealt the right wing a stinging defeat in the Nov. 8 city election, in keeping with what appeared to be a nationwide voter rebuff to the GOP. Republican incumbents Kathleen Dunbar...