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2008 Press Releases


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Water District Employees Fight For Worker Safety and Healthcare
Over 100 Water District workers will march en masse into the Alameda County Water District boardroom to highlight the abuses in working conditions and fight back drastic healthcare takeaways. The workers say huge safety problems persist at the Water Distr

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3/13/2008

SOLANO COUNTY WORKERS FIGHT TO PROTECT THE SICK AND THE TEMPORARILY DISABLED AMONG THEM
Solano County Workers are in a contract dispute, not over cost of living increases, but over two major contract takeaways. The first is a disability insurance takeaway that will hurt the sick and temporarily disabled county worker. The second is a flexib

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3/11/2008

From Model to Meltdown: San Francisco's Public Health Institutions In Freefall
Viewed as a beacon of health care reform as recently as a year ago, San Francisco's public health institutions are in the middle of a drastic implosion. Elected officials, labor leaders, health care professionals and community advocates are converging on

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2/15/2008

Fighting to save SF's Worker Comp Clinic
Closing SF's Worker Comp Clinic is not only bad for injured workers, but would undermine departmental productivity and cost the city more money than it saves.

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1/28/2008

Why are San Francisco Food Stamps Workers Protesting?
Workers at San Francisco's Food Stamps Call Center are frustrated by management's poor implementation of a new call center. The center has been plagued by poor management decisions that caused increased work and degraded services.

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1/28/2008

SEIU 1021 Head Start Workers File Federal Charges Against San Joaquin Head Start Agency
Head Start workers file federal charges against local agency

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1/11/2008