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Labor, community fight to save health center

July 23, 2004

OAKLAND, Calif. – A years-long simmering crisis threatening the existence of the Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) is heating up again, as a “turn-around” management firm’s drive to cut hundreds of workers is challenged by a...

National Clips

July 23, 2004

NEW YORK: City workers to picket convention site The United Federation of Teachers, the Uniformed Firefighters Association, and the city’s police union have vowed to begin round-the-clock informational picketing at Madison Square Garden when the Republican...

Texas watchdog groups want DeLay probe

July 23, 2004

AUSTIN, Texas – Three Texas campaign reform groups called July 15 for the U.S. House Ethics Committee to appoint an independent outside counsel to investigate charges that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas illegally funneled...

California labor calls for troops home now

July 23, 2004

SAN DIEGO – The California Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, has voted in favor of “an immediate end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and to support the repeal of the Patriot Act and the reordering of...

At the Democratic National Convention – Unionists talk jobs, health care

July 23, 2004

BOSTON (PAI) – When he gets to Boston, Richard Martin will discuss health insurance and homeland security. When she greets her colleagues, Maria Balestri will push for education issues and raise questions about our future course...