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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
June 15, 2007Who’s the boss? A series of recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board has raised the possibility that millions of Americans may have their right to join together in unions stripped away because of word...
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New Haven unites to stop immigrant raids
June 15, 2007NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On June 4, while the Bush administration twisted arms in Congress to pass an exploitative guest worker program, New Haven became the first city in the country to issue a municipal ID...
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WORLD NOTES
June 15, 2007South Africa: Public workers go on strike By June 10, a weeklong strike of public service workers called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) had become “the most devastating strike in post-apartheid South...
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Italys Communists grapple with political realities
June 15, 2007RIMINI, Italy — The recent general elections here resulted in a defeat for the ultra-right Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister, and his supporting parties. But the government, now run by a coalition of center-left parties and...
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Communists lift every voice for Black equality
June 15, 2007ST. LOUIS — Eighty activists, including trade unionists, elected officials, religious leaders and workers of all races, ages and genders gathered here June 9-10 for an extraordinary Communist Party conference on African American equality. The participants...
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