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Stop victimizing workers: Labor, community groups mobilize against immigration raids
December 22, 2006Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided Swift & Co. meat-processing plants in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Utah last week, arresting 1,282 undocumented workers. It was the largest-ever workplace assault on immigrant workers. But the raids...
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Treatment of Immigrant Workers Nationwide in Meatpacking Plants Violates Basic Worker Rights
December 16, 2006Immigration Reform is key to Preventing Identity Theft and to End Family Separation Chicago—With recent raids in meatpacking plants in various states, United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 881 protests this treatment of workers...
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Florida event welcomes Cindy Sheehan, via phone
December 16, 2006TAMPA, Fla. — Participants packed the hall for a Dec. 11 banquet organized by Chapter 119, Tampa Bay Veterans for Peace, that celebrated voters’ rejection of the Bush administration’s “stay the course” policy and urged Floridians...
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How to pass the Employee Free Choice Act
December 15, 2006Passing the Employee Free Choice Act will require a massive shift in the culture of the labor movement, Communications Workers President Larry Cohen told national union leaders gathered for the AFL-CIO’s organizing summit. “Labor law reform...
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Denouncing the killings in Oaxaca
December 15, 2006The Mexican Consulate in downtown Sacramento, Calif., locked its doors Dec. 1 when protesters lined up with signs condemning the Mexican government’s violence against thousands of strikers in Oaxaca. At least 17 strikers have been killed....
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