International – Page 588

Celebrating our history

October 17, 2003

Opinion I learned to fly as an RAF cadet in Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe] during the war and vividly remember the way in which Britain obliterated the history of the people of the country that it then...

Republicans threaten the world with nukes

October 17, 2003

Opinion Last year, the Bush administration sought $15.5 million for a three-year program called Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Program (RNEP), to study usable nuclear weapons. This program would try to build two large weapons with yields...

Aluminum unions form global network

October 17, 2003

MONTREAL – Pledging “our full support to help other unions across the globe that represent workers in the aluminum industry when they are in need of our solidarity,” 160 delegates from 17 nations at the International...

Rally for jobs says Stop the FTAA

October 17, 2003

PARMA, Ohio – At a town hall meeting held in the community center of this Cleveland suburb, Tom Frisbie, president of Cleveland’s AFL-CIO, denounced the loss of 766,000 jobs since the signing of the North American...

International notes

October 17, 2003

Asia: Coca-Cola workers mobilize Unions representing Coca-Cola workers in Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Sri Lanka met in Manila earlier this month and agreed to coordinate their efforts to build strong bargaining power...