Labor

                
  • Colombia: repression and resistance

    Colombia: repression and resistance

    March 31, 2006

    In response to a comment about the beauty of Colombia, 7-year-old Daniela said, “Yes, but it is so violent.” Daniela should know. She has seen the violence up close. Her father, a left-wing city council member,...

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  • Transit union fights binding arbitration

    Transit union fights binding arbitration

    March 31, 2006

    NEW YORK — Transport Workers Union Local 100, which represents this city’s bus and subway workers, has been ordered by a state agency into binding arbitration with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but the union plans to...

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  • Nationwide strike rocks Greece

    Nationwide strike rocks Greece

    March 31, 2006

    ATHENS, Greece — Several months of intensified trade union activity in Greece culminated in a nationwide strike March 15 where thousands upon thousands of working people, the unemployed, university and high school students and pensioners flooded...

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  • Massive strike in France against jobs law

    Massive strike in France against jobs law

    March 31, 2006

    PARIS (AP) — At least 1 million of protesters poured onto France’s streets and absent workers hobbled transport services March 28 in the first nationwide strike against a new labor law for youths, increasing pressure on...

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  • How the corporate right lies about union corruption

    How the corporate right lies about union corruption

    March 25, 2006

    Ah, the corporate right has launched a new anti-labor front group called UnionFacts.org, dealing in dark tales of union corruption. Of course, you can judge the likely accuracy of the site by the fact that its...

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