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THIS WEEK IN LABOR

September 1, 2006

San Francisco, Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strikes Thousands of hotel workers in San Francisco and Chicago, members of Unite Here, have voted to authorize strikes if labor disputes are not settled soon with major...

WORLD NOTES

September 1, 2006

South Korea: Autoworkers win gains After a series of strikes culminating in a month long work stoppage, Hyundai’s South Korean autoworkers won a one-year 5.1 percent wage increase. They initially sought a 9.1 percent hike. In...

Mexico court rejects charges of election fraud

September 1, 2006

In the wake of an Aug. 28 ruling by Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal that there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the July 2 election, leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed to continue...

Bolivias constituent assembly runs into trouble

September 1, 2006

As candidate for the Bolivian presidency in 2005, Evo Morales promised to nationalize hydrocarbon resources and to establish a constituent assembly. Nationalization of natural gas was announced on May 1. On Aug. 6, delegates to a...

Girls under 18 left behind

September 1, 2006

Bittersweet. It’s a good word to describe the anticipated U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of the controversial contraceptive pill, Plan B. The sweet part is the fact that, after nearly a three-year delay, a...