Marilyn Bechtel

LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel

• Labor

  

  S.F. hotel workers triumph over lockout

  December 3, 2004 By Marilyn Bechtel And Sonia Siegel

  SAN FRANCISCO — Some 4,300 hotel workers returned to work triumphantly at 14 of this city’s premier hotels last week, after area health providers’ decisions to extend workers’ medical coverage for December and January pulled the...

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• Peace

  

  Support our troops: bring them home now!

  June 11, 2004 By Marilyn Bechtel

  Events on both coasts last week reflected the worry growing throughout the country about the impact on soldiers and their families of ever-lengthening deployments in Iraq and Kuwait.

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• PrintEditions

  

  Calif. education and health on chopping block

  May 28, 2004 By Marilyn Bechtel

  Across California, students and those who depend on publicly-funded health care programs will be among the hardest hit if the draconian cuts in programs and services proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger survive in the final budget...

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• PrintEditions

  

  Unity on the waterfront

  July 12, 2002 By Marilyn Bechtel

  Solidarity Day rallies held on June 27 at the West Coast ports of Los Angeles, Oakland and Seattle brought together a powerful united front of unions and community groups together with the International Longshore and Warehouse...

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