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Paramilitaries raid house of Salvadoran Union Leader! PARAMILITARIES RAID HOUSE OF SALVADORAN UNION LEADER
Latest Incident in Escalating Series of Paramilitary Violence and Threats...
Posted: Wed, Nov 20, 2002 3:35pm PST
Worker Abuses at Lufthansa 
"Lufthansa Unbalanced" Web Site Exposes Conflict Between Socially Responsible Image and Treatment of U.S. Workforce, says Airline Catering Union...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 12:29pm PST
Situation in El Salvador Escalates! SALVADORAN ELECTRICITY WORKERS JOIN HEALTHCARE UNIONS ON STRIKE AGAINST PRIVATIZATION
INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AND SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED!
Planning meeting this Sunday, Nov 17th!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2002 10:54pm PST
Latest Campaign & Action for the the Bangladeshi garments workers 
In Bangladesh, National Garments Workers Federation started a Campaign & Action for the Festival Bonus for the garment workers.....
Posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2002 2:17am PST
BOYCOTT walmart sams clubs worldwide 
BOYCOTT walmart sams clubs worldwide
numerous violations...
Posted: Mon, Nov 4, 2002 6:39pm PST
In Bangladesh, Garment Workers Demanded: Fair Wage and Fair Trade. 
More than hundred workers including women workers from different garment factories participated in the demonstration. It was organised by the National Garments Workers Federation. Workers staged this demontration from 11 a.m to 12 noon on 14th October,2002....
Posted: Thu, Oct 24, 2002 3:24am PDT
On the war cargo: Open letter to ILWU Rank & File The following appears in the November issue of the Industrial Worker:, published by the IWW, iww.org...
Posted: Fri, Oct 18, 2002 6:01pm PDT
Labor Strikes in Israel Could Expand There are major labor strikes occurring in Israel, and they promise to expand. The garbage is piling up, school aides are on strike and hospitals, railroads, the post office and the phone service face possible strikes. Meanwhile, the poverty of the workingclass increases as the Zionist government puts guns before butter....
Posted: Thu, Oct 17, 2002 8:01pm PDT
Belgian Company Linked to Rural Slavery in Brazil (Media) The Federal Police and the Ministry for Employment have found around 180 people who have been working for four months in conditions analogous to slavery on a farm in the state of Pará, Brazil. The farm is linked to the Belgian capital investments company SIPEF....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2002 9:55am PDT
Bush wages war on unions As the Bush Jr. administration and the Pacific Maritime Association work hand-in-hand to wage a brutal war against the dockworkers, international labor unity is needed for a defiant fightback....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:21pm PDT
Half a Million Workers march through Madrid Half a Million Workers...
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 10:52am PDT
Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened In this Alert:
1. Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened
2. Fighting to Keep Their Rights
3. PANAMCO, Coke in Colombia
4. Take Action Now!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 3:45pm PDT
Voices of Anarchist Union Organizers I asked a few folks to tell me a little about themselves and their views
on organizing for unions. These six people identify as either an anarchist (with or without adjectives) or as an anti-authoritarian (an anarchist that doesn't know it yet!). They all work as union organizers or have worked as union organizers....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 1:43pm PDT
Bush Preparing to Invoke Taft-Hartley to End Lockout at Pacific Ports (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) More than two hundred cargo ships are anchored in harbors off the Pacific coast today as a lockout of west coast dockworkers enters its second week. Talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association – representing shipping and terminal companies – broke down again late last night, prompting the Bush administration to weigh in on the labor dispute....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 12:10pm PDT
10/10: General Strike in Israel A general strike is scheduled to take place in Israel commencing on a small scale on Oct 10 and broadening thereafter. The Zionist government cannot deliver both guns and butter....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 7:23pm PDT
BILLY BRAGG: POWER IN A UNION (video/x-pn-realvideo 1.3MB) FOR THE ILWU -- BILLY BRAGG, NYC, FEB. 1, 2002 DEMONSTRATIONS VS THE WEF
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Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 12:20pm PDT
Audio: The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Oppose Iraq War Peter Knowles is President of UE District 2, which represents workers in New England and upper New York. He was one of the sponsors of the international union's resolutions against an invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 1:10pm PDT
Action Alert! Burlington Coat Factory - Cloaked in Oppression 
This winter, help stop dictatorship in Burma: Burlington Coat Factory is helping support Burma's military regime by retailing huge quantities of "Made in Burma" products. Please take a minute to tell this company to end support for forced labor and stop the retail of products from Burma!
Write Burlington Coat Factory at Customer.Mail@coat.com...
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 10:13am PDT
El Salvador: Violent Repression Reaching Heights, Urgent Call for Solidarity! 30 health care workers fired, union leaders held at gunpoint in El Salvador as the resistance to corporate gloablization surges...
Posted: Thu, Sep 19, 2002 12:56pm PDT
NOV 4-10 ANTI-COCA-COLA-WEEK We are demanding that our university refuse the next coca-cola contract renewal unless coca-cola cleans up their act. (1. Allow international human rights monitors in their plants and around their installations. 2. Publicly condemn paramilitary violence in Colombia and cease all connections with them. 3. Allow the WRC, an independent sweatshop monitoring group,into their plants.) We will demand our university to write a letter to coke demanding these things or else...NO CONTRACT....
Posted: Fri, Sep 13, 2002 8:23am PDT
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