Labor
San Francisco hotel workers on strike
November 23, 2009About 650 workers at the St. Francis Hotel, one of the city's oldest and most luxurious, walked out on strike on November 18.
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Workers and oppressed of the world unite, 2.0
November 22, 2009The following are remarks made by Communist Party USA Vice Chair Scott Marshall to the 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties hosted by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party...
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‘Health care or food?’
November 21, 2009"The company wants to make us pay $350 a month for our family health care; for me that would mean a 10 percent wage cut."
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10 years after the ‘Battle in Seattle’
November 20, 2009SEATTLE (PAI)—Ten years ago on Nov. 30, 1999, 50,000 people protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle.
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AFL-CIO head denounces Honduras elections
November 18, 2009AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has weighed in on the planned November 29 elections in Honduras, with an open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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