Red Springs, N.C. — North Carolina is one of the most industrialized states in the country. Yet it still has one of the lowest percentages of workers in unions, though not from lack of trying by labor. 
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April 29, 2006
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Cientos de policía federales y estatales mejicanos atacaron la planta de acero SICARTSA en Michoacán el 20 de abril para sacar a los obreros en huelga que habían ocupado la planta desde el 2 de abril. La policía mató a dos obreros, uno de ellos un representante del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros, Metalúrgicos y Similares de la República Mexicana (SNTMMS). Unos 40 obreros fueron hospitalizados junto con dos docenas de policías.
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Supporters of immigrant rights are reacting with anger to last week’s large-scale immigration raids, and calling for all raids and deportations to be stopped and for legislation legalizing undocumented workers to be supported.
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Hundreds of Mexican federal and state police stormed the Sicartsa steel plant in western Michoacan, April 20, to remove striking steelworkers who had occupied the plant since April 2. The police opened fire on workers with teargas and bullets. When the smoke cleared, the police had killed two workers, one of them a representative of the National Union of Mine and Metallurgical Workers of the Republic of Mexico.
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NUEVA YORK — Una ventaja única de la Marcha por la Paz, Justicia y Democracia del 29 de abril será la participación de uniones laborales.
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Diecisiete estudiantes de la Universidad de Virginia fueron arrestado en el campus de Charlottesville el 15 de abril por ocupar a la oficinas del presidente de la universidad por cuatro días. Los estudiantes demandaron que la universidad acepte su “responsabilidad moral” y se comprometa a pagar buenos salarios a sus trabajadores.
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Tens of thousands of peaceful protesters against the autocratic rule of King Gyanendra continued to fill the streets of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, and cities and towns throughout the country this week despite brutal government repressive measures, including a daytime curfew and orders to shoot on sight.
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While Delphi CEO Steve Miller has proposed in bankruptcy court to cancel labor agreements, slash the company’s hourly workforce by approximately 75 percent and phase in a wage cut from $27 an hour down to $16.50, it has sung a different song to its executives.
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NEW YORK — On April 10 Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Theodore Jones sentenced Roger Toussaint, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, to 10 days in jail for leading his union on a pre-Christmas three-day strike. Seven days later, Jones slammed the union again, fining it $2.5 million and crippling its ability to collect dues
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Seventeen University of Virginia students were arrested on the Charlottesville campus April 15 because they staged a four-day sit-in at the university president’s office. The students demanded the administration accept its “moral responsibility” and commit to paying a living wage to university workers.
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