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Political prisoner dies in Iran jail

June 17, 2011 By Jamshid Ahmadi

Another victim of the Iranian regime's brutal repression, hunger striking political prisoner Hoda Saber, has died in jail.

Hundreds join Congress Hotel strikers at 8th Anniversary rally

June 16, 2011 By John Wojcik

Sixty workers who have been on strike at Chicago's Congress Hotel for eight years were joined June 15 by hundreds of supporters at a rally outside the hotel.

In South Korea, strike leaders land in court

June 16, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

180 Vietnamese migrant workers building a wharf in Inchon, South Korea, launched one brief strike in July, 2010, and another last January.

Tired of pollution, Chicago students demand clean air

June 16, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

Dozens of students, calling themselves the "Anti-Pollution Revolution," from high schools in Chicago's mostly Mexican American neighborhood protested against local power plants.

Unions take fight vs. Walker bill to federal court

June 16, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

Wisconsin AFL-CIO head Phil Neuenfeldt assailed the state Supreme Court for reinstating the union-busting law, called the ruling "an affront to our democracy."