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• Globe Union Rallies Against Outsourcing

  - 2007-02-28

  To: LABOR EDITORSContact: Cosmo Macero, +1-617-646-1017, or Wesley Eberle, +1-617- 827-4229, both for The Boston Newspaper Guild BOSTON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents nearly 1,000 Boston Globe employees, was joined by local unions, Massachusetts labor leaders and elected officials today to protest the outsourcing of...

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• Tidal wave of offshoring began early for Boston-area technology firms.

  - 2004-11-17

  By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 17--Jim Pinder lost his job to India before most people had ever heard of "offshoring." It was October of 2000. Pinder, then 40, had a master's degree in engineering from...

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• Kerry Edwards: Bush-Cheney Ad Fact Check on 'The Choice' (3/3)

  - 2004-10-25

  WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is an Ad Fact Check from Kerry-Edwards 2004 (Part 3 of 3): B-2 BOMBER: The Kerry Record Kerry has supported over $16.7 billion in defense authorizations for the B-2 program, over $11 billion since the Cheney cuts. -- THE CHENEY...

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• Personality change planned for Boston transit system.

  - 2004-10-11

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 11--Their reputation is quintessential, don't-waste-my-time Boston: the tellers behind thick-glassed booths at T stations, sometimes barely looking up at customers, talking on the telephone, meting out tokens and change,...

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• Kerry calls rival 'unfit,' rips vice president on deferments.

  - 2004-09-03

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 3--SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- John F. Kerry blasted President Bush as "unfit for office and unfit for duty" because of the Iraq war and lost jobs at home at a midnight rally in this battleground ...

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• Numbers of poor, uninsured rise.

  - 2004-08-27

  By Kimberly Blanton, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 27--The US poverty rate rose, incomes stagnated, and more Americans went without health insurance last year, even though economic growth surged, according to Census Bureau data released yesterday. ...

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• Database makes hard job easier for Boston-area house hunters.

  - 2004-08-21

  By Chris Reidy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 21--Now buyers can use technology and databases to get a more complete view of a house without driving 30 miles to see it. David Hitrys thinks house-hunting takes too long,...

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• Workers at Boston Health Care Center Stage Symbolic Strike.

  - 2004-05-19

  By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 19--More than 100 nurses assistants, housekeepers, and licensed nurses walked off the job at the Edgar P. Benjamin Health Care Center in Mission Hill yesterday during a symbolic strike to...

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• New CEO Aims to Stabilize Boston-Area Hospital Network.

  - 2004-05-13

  By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 13--The chief executive of Caritas Christi Health Care said he will spend some of the next 30 days reassuring staff and trying to create stability at New England's second-largest hospital network,...

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• Kerry Message Starts to Break Through.

  - 2004-05-09

  By Glen Johnson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 9--PHOENIX -- For a candidate accused of searching for a message, the challenge was no clearer than it was Friday, as John F. Kerry stood at a podium here outlining his...

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