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(Scot Yount, NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Thursday afternoon, hundreds of Boston area hospital workers turned out in the Longwood Medical Center area to rally for better care and better jobs.

They are demanding freedom from hospital CEOs to hold their own union elections.

The Dropkick Murphys played at the rally held by the state's largest healthcare union.

The hospital CEOs say they are not doing anything to prevent union election.

NECN's Scot Yount has details.

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Door-to-Door Canvass to 200,000 Union Members and Families

Health Care Top Issue

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New Bedford Mayor Lang has instituted a Summer Jobs Program to hire city youth to prepare them for the working world.

National Jobs with Justice conference participants joined RI Jobs with Justice and allies in holding the line in Rhode Island

Workers Memorial Day Observance at Dubin Labor Education Center

By Maria Sacchetti, Boston Globe, April 29, 2008

Submitted by Jordan Barab. This was on a "Motion to Recommit" -- a Republican amendment that would have required the Secretary of Labor to certify that food prices would not go up before the combustible dust standard could cover food grains.

Gone fishing has too often meant gone missing for the seafarers who brave the waves off the Massachusetts coast to bring in the daily catch, a new report finds.