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Blue Diamond Growers guilty, panel says

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As over 200 union and community supporters gathered at a Nov. 18 town hall forum on the labor situation at Blue Diamond Growers, a panel of elected officials and community representatives found the...

THIS WEEK IN LABOR: Dec. 15

Labor cites the Bush record The AFL-CIO reported this month that since Bush has been in office, 5 million Americans have slipped out of the “middle class” into poverty and 8.5 million people have lost their...

WORLD NOTES: Dec. 15

South Africa: Mine owners’ profits ‘dripping in blood,’ say strikers Over 270,000 members of South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers engaged in a one-day strike Dec. 4 that closed down the world’s largest gold and platinum...

Crisis mounts in Bolivia

Meeting in the southwestern city of Oruro on Dec. 8-9, Bolivia’s Constituent Assembly approved “99.8 percent” of a new constitution by a two-thirds majority. The full text of the constitution, including some hitherto unresolved land reform...

Shades of Green: Dec. 15