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Sept. 15, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO — Security officers who protect downtown high-rise office buildings are telling this city’s corporate real estate giants they need real security, too, in the form of living wages, family health coverage, paid sick days and pensions. And if need be, they are prepared to strike to get it.
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CHICAGO — Students and teachers here, during “back to school week” at the Rudy Lozano Leadership Academy, an alternative high school in the Mexican American Pilsen neighborhood, honored the life of Rudy Lozano, Sept. 5.
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HOUSTON — In the ongoing litigation against BP following the March 2005 blast at the company’s Texas City oil refinery that killed 15 workers, a lawyer for some of the victims has produced an internal memo showing BP did a cost-benefit analysis that concluded it would be cheaper to not make structures blast-resistant than it would be to absorb the costs of a possible explosion.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Members of four locals of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) representing 3,500 clerical, technical and health care workers at the University of Minnesota walked out Sept. 5 over pay issues.
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As Michael Moore puts it, there is a lot “sicko” with our health care system. In many cases, it is with the AIDS epidemic where our system’s most profound injustices and inefficiencies are brought fully into the light.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The big success of the Elm City Residents Card, which has received an overwhelmingly positive response here, has also become a model for other cities. The history of the new ID card is a history filled with the struggle for immigrant rights and workers’ rights.
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El gran éxito de la tarjeta de residencia de New Haven, la Ciudad del Olmo, que ha provocado una respuesta tremendamente positiva de la gente que vive aquí, se está convirtiendo en un modelo para otras ciudades. La historia de esta tarjeta de identificación es una de la lucha por los derechos de los inmigrantes y de los trabajadores.
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Ever since the Cold War ended, successive U.S. administrations have warned repeatedly about the dangers of unsecured nuclear weapons. But just before Labor Day an incident occurred which calls into question the kind of security the U.S. itself is maintaining over its own nuclear weapons.
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Saying that the 130 million workers in the U.S. are worried about the economy is like saying Barry Bonds can hit home runs or Peyton Manning can throw a football.
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