News
Autoworkers confront uncertain future
March 31, 2006With all the proposals being floated in auto, the one constant is GM’s and Delphi’s efforts to increase profits by cutting jobs and benefits. A recent agreement between GM, Delphi and the United Auto Workers Union...
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Nationwide strike rocks Greece
March 31, 2006ATHENS, 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
March 31, 2006PARIS (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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Burst Alaskan pipeline damages tundra
March 31, 2006A leak in an Alaskan pipeline operated by BP (British Petroleum) has resulted in one of the worst oil spills to afflict the region since the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989. News reports say more than...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
March 31, 2006DETROIT: 50,000 say, ‘We are not criminals’ Over 50,000 Mexican, Guatemalan, Honduran and El Salvadoran and other immigrant families, carrying their homeland flags, jammed in front of the Federal Building, March 27, chanting, “We are not...
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