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Colombian women workers strike for survival

November 7, 2009 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Accompanied by her children and 25 fellow workers, strike leader Aidé Silva escorted our small U.S. labor delegation through an industrialized floriculture operation near Madrid, Colombia.

Asian natural disasters: A harbinger of things to come?

November 7, 2009 By Brian McAfee

In a span of 5 weeks earthquakes, floods, mudslides, typhoons and tsunamis swept through 10 nations leaving thousands of people dead and rendering millions more homeless.

Janitors call for ‘green’ cleaning

November 7, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks now, teams of supermarket janitors have been traversing northern California on a mission: get supermakerts to go green.

International labor campaign against nuclear weapons

November 7, 2009 By Gary Bono

In a sign of growing international labor solidarity around broad social issues labor unions and peace groups have launched a new petition campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.

In Thompson’s defeat, seeds of future victory

November 6, 2009 By Dan Margolis

It would be a mistake to classify Bloomberg's November 4 mayoral reelection win as anything but a defeat for the working people of New York City

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Colombian women workers strike for survival

Asian natural disasters: A harbinger of things to come?

Janitors call for ‘green’ cleaning

International labor campaign against nuclear weapons

In Thompson’s defeat, seeds of future victory