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WNU #945: Latin America Workers March for May Day
Despite labor's apparent victory at Cananea, Mexico's union movement is "pulverized" through lack of unity, Autonomous National University of Mexico Workers Union (STUNAM) leader Agustín Rodríguez told the daily La Jornada during May 1 celebrations in Mexico City.
Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #945, May 4, 2008
1. Latin America: Workers March for May Day
2. Honduras: Union Leader Murdered
3. Mexico: Cananea Strike Now Legal
4. Links to alternative sources on: Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico
ISSN#: 1084-922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com. It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com
*1. Latin America: Workers March for May Day
Unionists and other activists marked International Workers Day with marches throughout Latin America on May 1 as rising food and fuel costs cut into workers' standard of living. Demands included increases in the minimum wage, an end to violence against unionists and rejection of trade pacts with the US.
Read full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2008/05/wnu-945-latin-america-workers-march-for.html
Issue #945, May 4, 2008
1. Latin America: Workers March for May Day
2. Honduras: Union Leader Murdered
3. Mexico: Cananea Strike Now Legal
4. Links to alternative sources on: Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico
ISSN#: 1084-922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com. It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com
*1. Latin America: Workers March for May Day
Unionists and other activists marked International Workers Day with marches throughout Latin America on May 1 as rising food and fuel costs cut into workers' standard of living. Demands included increases in the minimum wage, an end to violence against unionists and rejection of trade pacts with the US.
Read full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2008/05/wnu-945-latin-america-workers-march-for.html
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