FENTON, Missouri — La compañía automovilística Chrysler está recortando 1.300 empleos de su planta en Fenton, Missouri. Esto es parte de un plan de reestructuración que eliminará a 13 mil empleos en todo el país para el 2009. La fábrica de Fenton emplea como 2.300 obreros. 
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Feb. 24, 2007
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The firing of workers trying to unionize at the Smithfield meat packing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., has prompted Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to take aim at the Department of Homeland Security.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) is 650 miles from the notorious anti-worker Smithfield Foods livestock processing factory in Tar Heel, N.C. On Smithfield’s killing floors and in New Haven’s healing wards, the workers have something in common. Their employers use illegal, anti-democratic union-busting tactics to deny a voice on the job.
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Excerpts from the remarks of Roger Toussaint, president of New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100, on the occasion of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration, Jan. 15.
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FENTON, Mo. — An autoworker who is a member of the Missouri Legislature says Chrysler’s announcement that it is gutting 1,300 jobs from its South Assembly Plant here has “more to do with the bargaining climate than with the car sales.”
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El proyecto de ley para facilitar el derecho de trabajadores para formar sindicatos fué reintroducido en el Congreso el 8 de febrero. La Ley que da Libertad de Escoger a los Empleados (EFCA por sus siglas en inglés) tiene 232 legisladores apoyándola. Los partidarios de la legislación buscan un voto para el 1 de marzo.
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Historians call the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 a tragic part of our history. With this act, Chinese workers were denied citizenship. It remained in effect until 1943. But unprincipled politicians continue to use fear and hatred as tactics to remain in power. The November elections unmasked many of them.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Progressives in Connecticut will celebrate African American History Month by commemorating one of the state’s most outstanding fighters for economic and social justice and peace, George C. Springer Sr., who died in December at age 74.
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“I served my nation to protect the laws of our land, not companies like Smithfield that deprive us of those laws,” meatpacking worker Keith Ludlum told a packed congressional hearing last week.
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CARACAS (Tribuna Popular) – El Buró Político del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV) informó, en rueda de prensa el 15 de enero, que impulsara la creación de los Consejo de Trabajadores con el objetivo de hacer avanzar el ejercicio efectivo del poder político, social y económico de la clase trabajadora en los marco de la construcción del socialismo. Así lo informó Pedro Eusse, secretario sindical del PCV.
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