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Latino workers die from on-the-job injury at higher rates than all others, with 33 percent of the deaths happening at construction sites, a government report noted June 5.

“We are coming to the end of a terrible stage. The end of our struggle is near.” This last was a reference to former Cuban President Fidel Castro’s health problems. The speaker moved on to work at hand: “We ask God to sharpen our machetes.”

Among those that have just endorsed the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign are the United Auto Workers, the United Transportation Union and the Sheet Metal Workers.

The International Trades Union Congress, which met June 9-11 in Geneva, assailed the lack of workers’ rights in the United States. The ITUC also called on the World Trade Organization to take up the issue at its biannual review of U.S. trade policy.

The Democratic controlled House passed a bill June 12 extending unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 39 weeks in most states and to 52 weeks in states with official unemployment rates of 6 percent or more.

Unions that were either neutral or backing Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries are rapidly endorsing Barack Obama.

Used to be that consumer products had something called "planned obsolescence" built into them; they were designed to wear out and be thrown away (partly explaining our nation's overflowing landfills).

WEST MILFORD, New Jersey — Ella llegó aquí desde Guatemala y consiguió un trabajo como trabajadora doméstica para una familia viviendo en su casa.

Después de 102 Anos de vida republicana, desde la promulgación de la Constitución de 1906, sancionada por Eloy Alfaro Delgado, el Ecuador ha vuelto a respirar vientos de justicia y libertad con el régimen de Rafael Correa Delgado. Ambos regimenes se entrelazan históricamente, porque cada uno de ellos rompe con etapas de servidumbre, la de Alfaro supera la etapa oscurantista de los conservadores de la era colonial y la de Correa esta tratando de superar la etapa neoliberal, la etapa del contubernio entre la oligarquía criolla, el capital transnacional y el colonialismo estadounidense.