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At the begin speak of crimes during periods of military dictatorship, generally those who committed torture and assassination. This omits the economic interests and industries involved even though they were the ones who took advantage of such coups.
Gomez family deportation
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Molson workers occupy plant
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Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman is threatening to tell homeless people to go to hell and not to house them anymore.
Trade Unionists in Detention
The workers of the Hospitals SAN JUAN DE DIOS and INFANTILE MATERNAL INSTITUTE, located in Bogot Colombia’s city denounce before the peoples of the world: Andrs Pastrana’s neoliberal government seeks to put an end to these biggest specialized university hospitals in the country, product of his desire to private to the help of the disastrous law 100 approved by the National Congress during Cesar Gaviria’s government in 1994
Recent events to do with the safety of the teacher and trade union leader DOMINGO RAFAEL TOVAR ARRIETA, member of the Executive Committee of the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores - CUT (Workers’ Unitary Central) and head of its Human Rights Department.
The former spokesman of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) and current member of Gladys Marín’s presidential team, Vasili Carrillo was arrested
The former Front activist is today a member of Gladys Marín’s presidential team.
Workers from assembly-for-export factories who refused to go to work in a stirring show of solidarity for striking workers at the Kimi factory in Continental Park in Honduras were tear-gassed and beaten Monday morning, August 30 by anti-riot police.
Urgent appeal
Since Friday Sept. 17th, the workers at Congeladora del Rio have set up a picket line outside their plant to demand a fair contract.
Canadian Labour Support for MumiaThe campaign to win freedom for Mumia gains significant ground in Canada.
A vigil will take place on the 11th December to mark the 18th anniversary of Mumia's arrest.
Mumia Supporters Meet in Liverpool
Mumia supporters provided late night Christmas shoppers in Liverpool with a noisy demonstration in support of Mumia Abu Jamal.
Fraternal Order of Police Boycott Mumia Supporters
The far-right police organisation, FOP, are boycotting supporters of Mumia
French Ministry Receives Mumia Committee
The International Committee to save Mumia put their case to the French Government
See Also:
Jamal News Service - Breaking News
The very latest Mumia info is given here.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal : UK Action
Mumia : A Legal Analysis
New York Forum: Mobilizing Workers to Free Mumia
Free Mumia: Message from Pam Africa
UK Mumia Must Live Support Group
Mumia and the International Dockers Movement+
Employees of IBM have announced the formation of a national organisation, affiliated with the Communications Workers of America,
Five years ago, the Caterpillar strike turned Decatur, Illinois into a "war zone". Now a new interview confirms that IBEW electricians from Local 146 were doing UAW maintenance work behind the picket line. Michael Carrigan, then the Business Agent for IBEW Local 146, is running for office in the state-wide AFL-CIO election.
Paving the way for contracts covering the nation’s 400,000 unionized auto workers, the United Automobile Workers union and DaimlerChrysler A.G. Thursday morning reached tentative agreement on a four-year pact calling for a $1,350 signing bonus and pay increases of 3 percent a year on top of adjustments for inßation
1,450 American tiere workers who have been on strike for one year have reached a tentative contract agreement with General Tire, a subsidiary of global giant Continental.
Campaigns operated by rank-and-file flight attendants in Honolulu and Seattle on two Internet sites, were a key ingredient of a grassroots campaign that led to last week's overwhelming rejection of the proposed deal.
Longshore workers on the US West Coast have now voted decisively to accept the contract negotiated with the Pacific Maritime Association after a coast-wide go slow. Read the extensive rank and file debate and the voting esults. docks2/other/update.htm
The organizing drive among the engineers at the Pratt & Whitney factory in Palm Beach, Fla., was a home-grown affair. The leadership of the aspiring union, the Florida Professional Association, knew it had a difficult job, and in an early appeal stressed that "just because we are seeking change doesn't mean we're radicals."
A video piece on the current lock-out and battle between Pacifica Foundation management and progressive radio station KPFA, in Berkeley California, visit the web site http://www.brightpathvideo.com .
As families across Chicago celebrate this Labor Day weekend, there will be one place on local television where working people will tell their own stories.
Locked-out workers at the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press commemorated the fourth anniversary of their strike-turned-lockout on July 13. Although the newspapers have recalled some of the 2,500 strikers since the unions offered to return to work in 1997, many others are still awaiting reinstatement. Among them are more than 100 fired for strike activity; the NLRB is slowly hearing their cases.
Ford Motor Co. faces a possible showdown in national contract talks with the United Auto Workers over the potential spinoff of the No. 2 automaker's Visteon Automotive Systems parts unit. The union has scheduled an Aug. 17 strike-authorization vote at Ford plants nationwide.
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