Labor

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio School District students walked out of classes April 10 along with students from Alamo District to protest the immoral Sensenbrenner bill, HR 4437, which would criminalize many immigrants as “illegals” and anyone who would try to help them. The students chanted, “No immigrant is illegal.”

BERKELEY, California — Después de una larga y dura lucha, unos 400 trabajadores en el lujosa Claremont Resort and Spa han ganado un nuevo convenio laboral que aumenta el sueldo y mejora los beneficios. Por la primera vez la mayoría de los trabajadores serán elegible para la cobertura de seguro médico.

Cuarenta y cinco trabajadores agrícolas de tomate, miembros de la Coalición de Trabajadores de Immokalee (CIW en siglas ingles), les encantaba la solidaridad de grupos estudiantiles, laborales, comunitarios y religiosos en las manifestaciones en San Louis y Chicago la semana pasada.

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French President Jacques Chirac bowed April 10 to the pressure of millions of students and workers marching across France and withdrew a hated law granting employers the right to fire a young worker at will for up to two years after he or she is hired.

Saying huge numbers of on-the-job injuries from lifting and turning patients causes ever-increasing legions of nurses to quit, American Federation of Teachers’ nurses division launched a drive for state legislation mandating that hospitals install devices to help cut the injury toll — since the institutions won’t install them voluntarily.

More than a million people in France have taken to the streets against their conservative government’s attempts to change the country’s labor law.

PITTSBURGH — Randall McCloy, 26, thin and weak, sat inside his Simpson, W.Va., home with his wife and two children for the first time in two months. McCloy survived the worst West Virginia mining disaster in 40 years. His recovery from carbon monoxide poisoning following the Jan. 2 explosion at International Coal Group’s Sago Mine will take months.

El Sindicato Unido de Obreros Siderúrgicos (USW) de Estados Unidos están protestando al frente de los consulados mejicanos a través de EEUU y Canadá para demandar que el presidente Vicente Fox reinstala al jefe del sindicato de los mineros mejicanos.

It has become fashionable in certain circles to say that unions and government regulations are unnecessary nuisances, sand in the gears of the economy. The invisible hand of capitalism would take care of all our problems, if we would just let it alone.