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Seek national health solutions
July 1, 2003At its February meeting the AFL-CIO Executive Council responded to the deepening health care crisis by adopting a statement aimed at making health care a priority in the 2004 elections. “We need to turn the 2004...
Read moreAnit-immigrant wall endangers nature, too
July 1, 2003TUCSON, Ariz. – “The Sonoran Desert is a place of stunning beauty and provides essential habitat for a surprising number of plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth,” said Scotty Johnson, a representative of...
Read moreStarbucks hit for Cintas contract
July 1, 2003Across the country last week, upscale coffee company Starbucks felt the heat for contracting with union-buster Cintas Corp. to launder aprons, mats and linens. Cintas has been cited repeatedly for breaking the law by discriminating, dumping...
Read moreLee calls for new national priorities
July 1, 2003CHICAGO – Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the only representative to vote against Pres. Bush’s unlimited war authorization, spoke at the United Church of Hyde Park, June 23. Lee is the author of a bill that would...
Read moreTennessee UAW Local defeats lockout
July 1, 2003Locked out since Sept. 2, 2002, some 250 Peterbilt truck workers in Madison, Tenn., return to work July 2, having defeated company proposals to increase their health care costs up to 300 percent. “We’re very happy...
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