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Altos dirigentes sindicales terminaron una gira a Colombia el 13 de febrero declarando al presidente de ese país, Álvaro Uribe, que los sindicatos norteamericanos no apoyarán al tratado de libre comercio entre Estados Unidos y Colombia hasta que no se ponga fin a los asesinatos de sindicalistas colombianos por escuadrones de la muerte ultraderechistas en ese país sudamericano.
Comments (View) | Read more | Feb. 23, 2008

OAKLAND, Calif. — Janitors represented by Service Employees International Union held coordinated actions around California late last week as they kicked off their campaign to win new union master contracts covering workers in southern and northern California. The current contracts expire April 30.
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This past Labor Day, trade unionists were outraged to wake up and read an editorial in The Detroit News arguing for a “right-to-work” law in Michigan. Right-to-work bills failed to garner majority support in the Michigan Legislature last year, but the editorial in the state’s leading business newspaper signaled that the anti-labor crowd is not giving up
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SACRAMENTO (PAI)--By a 7-1 vote on Jan. 28, the California state senate Health Committee killed a corporate-based statewide universal health care plan pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), a vote the California Nurses Association cheered.
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A la hora de cierre de este número de Nuestro Mundo la situación en Puerto Rico se encuentra tensa con la expectativa que los profesores del sistema de instrucción público se pueden ir a la huelga en cualquier momento y la administración colonial del gobernador Aníbal Acevedo se prepara para el paro con fuerza militar y policiaca.
Comments (View) | Read more | Feb. 9, 2008

Más de 3.000 obreros siderúrgicos en su convención se pusieron de pie para aplaudir a Richard Trumka, secretario tesorero de la AFL-CIO, declaró “no mal que ha causado más dolor y sufrimiento en nuestro país que el mal del racismo. El movimiento sindical tiene una responsabilidad especial de luchar en contra de este mal. No llamando a alguien malvado, sino educando a los que no votarían por Barack [Obama] porque es negro”.
Comments (View) | Read more | July 5, 2008

Dover, NH - 600 AT&T Government Solutions workers in Dover, New Hampshire have formed a union with Communications Workers of America Local 1298 last month. It is the largest private sector organizing victory for workers in New Hampshire since 1966.
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While the future is looking up for General Motors and its high-priced execs, it’s anything but good for workers as the company is moving quickly to slash its labor expenses. General Motors has just told Wall Street analysts it will take advantage of its new cost-cutting labor agreement with the United Auto Workers to reduce its annual U.S. labor costs by $5 billion by 2011.
Comments (View) | Read more | Feb. 2, 2008

This article has been corrected.

The long-running saga of health reform in California has taken a new turn, with two developments that are reshaping the debate about how best to cover millions of uninsured and underinsured people in the state.
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MEMPHIS, Tennessee – Dos trabajadores, protegiéndose de una lluvia torrencial fría en este puerto del Río Mississippi, fueron destruido por un camión de basura mal funcionando. Así fue como empezó, en 1968, una larga huelga de empleados del sector público que sacudió al país y para siempre cementó una alianza histórica entre el movimiento sindical y el de derechos civiles.
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