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World Notes: Palestine, China, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Cuba and global union report
March 11, 2009Palestine: Unity gov’t talks recess Talks in Cairo among 14 Palestinian factions seeking to form a unified transitional government recessed March 14, leaving the Higher Committee made up of heads of the five working committees to...
Read moreWorkers tell lawmakers of unionizations benefits as Employee Free Choice Act is introduced
March 11, 2009WASHINGTON (PAI) - Workers, economists and scholars told the Senate Labor Committee on March 10 that increasing unionization, by making forming unions easier, would help all workers -- union and non-union -- in a time of...
Read moreEmployee Free Choice Act introduced in Congress
March 11, 2009The U.S. House and Senate are both introducing the Employee Free Choice Act as we write, launching the legislative battle to restore workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.
Read moreCoalition launches grassroots drive for Obama budget
March 11, 2009More than 40 labor unions and other progressive organizations with combined membership of millions launched a grassroots drive March 4 to push for enactment of President Obama’s $3.55 trillion 2010 federal budget in the face of...
Read moreGetting to the bottom of sea-level rise
March 11, 2009JOHANNESBURG (IRIN) - In the past few months, newspapers across the globe have been flooded with a debate over new studies projecting a higher and faster sea-level rise by the next century, which would sound the...
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