Bittersweet. It’s a good word to describe the anticipated U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of the controversial contraceptive pill, Plan B. 
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Sept. 2, 2006
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The United States may be the world’s only military superpower, but attempts by the Bush administration to get its way in northeastern Africa are meeting with resistance.
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As candidate for the Bolivian presidency in 2005, Evo Morales promised to nationalize hydrocarbon resources and to establish a constituent assembly. Nationalization of natural gas was announced on May 1. On Aug. 6, delegates to a Constituent Assembly gathered in the old capital city of Sucre to formulate Bolivia’s sixth constitution.
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In the wake of an Aug. 28 ruling by Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal that there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the July 2 election, leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed to continue his campaign of mass, peaceful civil resistance to force the authorities to conduct a full recount.
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South Korea: Autoworkers win gains
Canada: Opposition to troops in Afghanistan mounts
Haiti: Some political prisoners released, others languish
India: Coca-Cola provokes protests
Guatemala: Women at risk
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San Francisco, Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strikes
Right to strike for Northwest workers?
Dallas transit workers drive home their point
Concrete solidarity wins in Seattle
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What the Republican-controlled federal government couldn’t do with Social Security may have been achieved with pensions, as Congress this month passed the biggest pension law changes in 30 years. The full impact is unclear, but certainly there will be fewer traditional pension plans, more 401(k)-type retirement accounts and a lot of betrayed workers, but companies happy to be able to more easily freeze or terminate pensions.
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Dave Pavlick took his vacation from his job as a staff representative for the UAW in Cleveland so that he could walk 600 miles across the entire state of Ohio. He stopped at community after community to hold press conferences and talk with regular folks, supporting the Health Care for All Ohioans Act.
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Texas trucker looks at terrorist scare
Virginia delegate reports from AFL-CIO convention
Minnesota labor has its eyes squarely on the elections
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WASHINGTON (PAI) — Joint organizing drives involving two or three unions, some of them in notoriously anti-union “right to work” states, will lead to wins for organized labor, says AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff.
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