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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 : One of yesterday's unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is a big blow to low-wage workers. In Island Care at Home v. Coke , the High Court ruled home care workers?who number more than 1 million in the nation?are not entitled to a minimum wage or overtime pay under the nation's Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)....

Monday, June 11, 2007 : More than 70 workers spent their lunch hour sending a message to one of the world's biggest telecom companies and the German government: injustice to German workers is an injustice to all of us. The workers marched in the hot Washington, D.C., summer sun at the German Embassy in support of striking workers at the German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom (DT)....

Monday, June 11, 2007 : Vineeta Anand, chief research analyst for the AFL-CIO Office of Investment , highlights a new study by AFSCME on the success of shareholder proposals seeking to rein in CEO pay....

Saturday, June 9, 2007 : Iraq’s powerful oil workers’ trade union today expressed alarm as an arrest warrant was issued for its leaders, in an attempt to clamp down on industrial action....

Friday, June 8, 2007 : Workers in Iraq face the dual dangers of a lack of basic security and a lack of basic workers' rights. Striking oil workers this week found themselves surrounded by the military. At the same time, U.S. prosecutors reportedly are investigating charges that the company building the U.S. embassy in Baghdad forced migrant workers to work on the project against their will....

Thursday, June 7, 2007 :Twenty-two union leaders were arrested at the State Capitol in Hartford, Conn., June 1, as they called for universal health care. The arrests were made at different locations throughout the Capitol building amid a heavy police presence. The union leaders were sitting-in outside the offices of the governor, the speaker of the House and the president of the Senate when they were grabbed by the police....

Letter to the international labour movement Response to Judge Oziel Francisco de Sousa, who decided upon the invasion of CIPLA by 150 armed police with the aim of closing the plant. As we received this article we heard the news that the administrator has abolished the 30-hour week and reintroduced 40 hours, a clear indication of the real intentions of the bosses....

Monday, June 4, 2007 :Black America Web.com, News Analysis, Judge Mathis , Posted: Jun 04, 2007...

The Democratic control Congress recently passed a minimum wage increase tied to a Bush-Iraq War spending bill for $120 billion; within the next two years America’s lowest paid wage earners will receive a $2.10 pay increase. Presidential hopeful Stewart A. Alexander says, “It’s not enough.”...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply curtailed the ability of workers to sue employers who engage in pay discrimination. With the 5-4 decision, the court reversed long-standing legal precedent and administrative practice, reinterpreting workplace discrimination provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in a manner that shields companies which illegally penalize employees because of their gender, race, religion or national origin....