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African unions urge action on Zimbabwe
June 20, 2008Labor unions from southern Africa have called on the regional Southern African Development Community to send peacekeepers to Zimbabwe to ensure presidential elections take place democratically. A statement from the main labor organizations in eight countries...
Read moreNepal goes from Hindu kingdom to secular democracy
June 20, 2008The king of Nepal is no more. No. He’s not dead. He has been retired. After the Maoists’ party won the overwhelming majority in Nepal’s Constituent Assembly elections this April, the country’s left and secular forces...
Read moreRallies across country slam Big Oil, McCain
June 20, 2008Here’s what Manny Flores, a Laborers Union member in Denver, had to say about the pain many are feeling at the gas pump.
Read moreWorld labor group hits U.S. on worker rights
June 20, 2008The International Trade Union Congress, which met June 9-11 in Geneva, assailed the lack of workers’ rights in the United States, and called on the World Trade Organization to take up the issue at its biannual...
Read moreWorld notes: June 21, 2008
June 20, 2008South Korea: Conservative president confronts outrage Monitored by 30,000 riot police, a million people demonstrated throughout South Korea on June 10, following weeks of protests against the government’s bowing to Washington’s threats to retract a trade...
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