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Archive for August 27, 2011
RTD Approves Service Modifications to Take Effect October 2
Stockton, CA – At its August 23 meeting, the San Joaquin Regional Transit District (RTD)
Board of Directors approved modifications to the Stockton Metropolitan Area (SMA), Metro and
County Hopper, and Intercity services that will take effect on October 2, 2011.
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Dying for a Glass of Clean Water in San Joaquin CA’s Valley
New America Media, Photo Essay, david bacon, Posted: Aug 22, 2011
LANARE, Calif. — When Mary Broad moved to Lanare in 1955, there were only four other families still living in this tiny, unincorporated community in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, halfway between old Highway 99 and Interstate 5 on the cracked blacktop of Mt. McKinley Avenue.
Central Valley Walk for Union Rights: UFW plans Madera County to State Capital march — Stockton stop estimated on August 29th and 30th.
California — during the late hours of June 28, 2011 Governor Brown vetoed a bill that would have made it easier for farm workers to join a union. “I am not yet convinced that the far-reaching proposals of this bill – which alter in a significant way the guiding assumptions of the ALRA [Agricultural Labor Relations Board] – are justified,” Governor Brown wrote in his veto statement of SB 104 — Labor representatives: elections.
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