Work/ Labor

Rally to Protect Our Future

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 23:49.
Rally!

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Hugo Chavez's Call for a Fifth Socialist International

Submitted by rick on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 13:54.

 This is from Venezuela Analysis site -Rick  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/ 
 
December 15th 2009, by Bill Leumer & Ann Robertson - Workers Action

Recently
a conference was held in Caracas, Venezuela that included
representatives from socialist and left parties from around the world
and that culminated in an official statement, referred to as The
Commitment of Caracas. As reported by Venezuela Analysis, one of the  read more »

DEMAND HUMAN RIGHTS AT TACOMA IMMIGRATION PRISON!

Submitted by rick on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 14:42.

***Monthly Demonstration/Vigil at NW Detention Center
1623 E. J St., Tacoma WA 98421(Tacoma tideflats)***

SAT., November 14, 12noon-3pm. Bus leaving Media Island / Olympia Timberland library at noon


The Northwest Detention Center is guilty of violating the human and constitutional rights of
its 1000 detainees.  Recent studies have brought this out.  The prison is run by a private for-profit
operator named Geo.  Geo profits from our taxes and from the suffering
of immigrant workers in detention.  Geo owns prisons all over the
country.

Immigrant workers are being arrested, jailed and deported for the simple act of working.  This  read more »

ICE Detention Reforms Hide Abusive Practices

Submitted by rick on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 20:24.
   
 

The
Obama administration is trying to wiggle its way out of the immigration
crisis created by the Bush administration without taking any decisive
steps to distance itself from its predecessor's immigration policies
and enforcement practices.  read more »

Mexican Government Sends Police to Take Over Electrical Company and Bust Union

Submitted by wildleaf on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 12:01.
LFC protests in Mexico.

By Laura Carlsen

http://americasprogram.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/calderon-government-send...  read more »

Short fuse; 50,000 workers on the streets & 50 factories burning in Bangladesh

Submitted by pirate on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 20:43.

Libcom.org Jun 30 2009
Hamim garment factory burning - Ashulia 29 6 09

The mass unrest in the garment industry continued on Monday (29 June) for a third day...  read more »

More mayhem - cops kill again as garment workers' rioting continues in Bangladesh

Submitted by pirate on Sun, 06/28/2009 - 22:11.

Libcom.org Jun 28 2009

Ashulia - garment workers continue to fight cops - 28 Jun 09

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Oil refinery wildcat enters third day

Submitted by pirate on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 17:06.

Libcom.org June 16, 2009

Strikes at the Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolshire entered their third day today as talks between business leaders and employees broke down.

The unofficial strike action began at Lindsey Oil Refinery on Saturday as in protest over the loss of 51 jobs, cut by a sub-contractor while another employer on the site was hiring workers.  read more »

2009 Annual Survey of Trade Union Violations

Submitted by pirate on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 12:03.

http://survey09.ituc-csi.org/

As you open this year's Annual Survey of Trade Union Violations, you may
be thinking of the terrifying impact of the global financial and economic
crisis which hit millions of working women and men around the world in
both industrialised and developing countries in 2008.  read more »

Nigeria: One Dead, Several Injured As Ajaokuta Steel Workers Protest

Submitted by pirate on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 20:35.

All Africa.com June 3, 2009

Ajaokuta (kogi) — ONE person was feared dead and several others
wounded, yesterday, in Ajaokuta when aggrieved workers of the
multi-billion Naira Ajaokuta Steel Company (ASCL) took to the major
road in a violent protest over non-payment of their outstanding wages.

The ASL workers protest is coming barely a month after members of
the House of Representatives Commitee on Steel undertook a working tour
to the complex.  read more »

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