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West coast Occupy movement targets corporate giants at ports

December 13, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Occupy Oakland demonstrators shut down the Port of Oakland Dec. 12 as part of a West Coast-wide protest against giant corporations at ports from San Diego to Anchorage, Alaska.

Latin American labor making gains

December 7, 2011 By Eric A. Gordon

Some 80 participants attended from the U.S., Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Transport union defends members in airline bankruptcy

December 5, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The Transport Workers "will do everything possible" to vigorously protect 23,400 members who work for American Airlines and its American Eagle subsidiary as the carrier goes through bankruptcy, officials say.

U.S. nurses backed general strike in U.K.

December 5, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The National Nurses Union led a coalition of U.S. unions that demonstrated in six cities on Nov. 30 to back British public workers, who staged a one-day strike.

The biggest suckers wear suits

December 5, 2011 By Dominique Paul Noth

Like the toad who wants to be the handsome prince, the lobbying group disguised as a business association was seduced by romantic Ayn Rand visions of sugar plum profits dancing at the mere idea of a...