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Decision time for Colombia: Labor rights or death
April 10, 2008As the countdown begins for Congress to vote on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, debate is intensifying on both sides of the issue. On April 7 President Bush sent the agreement to Congress. Under fast track...
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Causes Dr. King fought for are very much with us
April 10, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI) — The causes the late Dr. Martin Luther King fought for, including racial justice, economic equality and ending a misguided war “are very much with us today,” says a labor historian and author of...
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Tensions continue at Mexican copper mine
April 10, 2008Tensions continue at a high level at Grupo Mexico’s largest copper mine in Cananea, in Mexico’s Sonora state. Workers represented by the Mexican National Union of Mine, Metal and Allied Workers (SNTMMSRM) have been on strike...
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Torture memo fuels calls to close Guantanamo
April 10, 2008Advocates for hundreds of detainees in George W. Bush’s “war on terror,” many held for years without criminal charges, are escalating their demands for fair trials or release of the prisoners and for closing Guantanamo and...
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Greece slashes worker pensions
April 9, 2008ATHENS — The Greek government overturned long-standing retirement benefit provisions for working people in a vote last week that will have powerful ramifications for generations to come. The new “anti-social security” measures will hit working mothers...
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