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AFL-CIO Endorses Barack Obama (LA Times)
By Michael Finnegan
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Barack Obama consolidated his organized labor support Thursday with an AFL-CIO endorsement that puts much of Hillary Rodham Clinton's union muscle behind his bid for the White House.
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Students and Workers Begin 3-day Fast at UCLA
Daily News Wire Services
Article Last Updated: 06/04/2008 04:55:03 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES - About 20 students and workers began a three-day fast at UCLA Wednesday to call for a new contract for UC health care and service workers, and the group presented 1,000 petition signatures supporting former President Bill Clinton's refusal to cross a picket line to speak at the university's commencement ceremony.
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Pensions for All
From the Los Angeles Times
A state bill wants to create CalPERS-managed portable retirement plans for private-sector employees.
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Hollywood to the Docks — Labor Power Fills the Streets
More than 5,000 union activists and supporters rallied at the harbor here, April 17, roaring their approval of an assertive, one-for-all and all-for-one strategy to change the national and local direction this year.
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Massive Union Crowd Celebrates at Port
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Hollywood Rally to Stop in Torrance
From the Daily BreezeHundreds of union activists ranging from firefighters to baggage handlers and actors began a three-day march across Los Angeles and into the South Bay on Tuesday in a campaign they call their "Hollywood to the Docks Fight For Good Jobs."
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So What America?
From Random Lengths News
by James P. Allen
You will have two opportunities in the next few weeks to express some rage at the machine. First is the three-day march from Hollywood to the Docks from April 15 to 17 when the County Federation of Labor will bring together the Hollywood and the waterfront unions, with over two dozen others in between, in a joint demonstration of solidarity.
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