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COMMENTARY: Whats so sacred about a contract?

March 25, 2009

Two of the nation’s “big three” auto companies, General Motors and Chrysler, both on the verge of bankruptcy, are asking the government for loans to keep them afloat. Unlike the insurance giant AIG and the big...

GUINEA-BISSAU: Teachers strike over non-pay

March 24, 2009 By Special to People’s World

BISSAU (IRIN) -- Intermittent teacher strikes that have disrupted the school year since October 2008 are on again as most of the country’s teachers went on strike on 19 March over salary arrears, according to the...

Trade unions to G20: Half measures will not fix broken global economy

March 24, 2009 By International Trade Union Confederation

Brussels, 23 March 2009 (ITUC OnLine): In a worldwide push for action by G20 governments to pull the global economy out of recession and chart a new course for job creation, financial regulation and global governance,...

Report from the front: Workers arrested as factory assets auctioned off

March 22, 2009

Reposted from rifuture.org A dozen workers from the Colibri jewelry plant in East Providence, Rhode Island were arrested today as their plant’s assets were auctioned off by a State appointed receiver. As bidders drove into the...

CWA members welcome Obamas Middle Class Task Force to St. Cloud plant

March 21, 2009

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (PAI) — Members of Communications Workers of America Local 7304 welcomed Vice President Joseph Biden and members of the Obama administration’s Middle Class Task Force” for a town hall meeting March 19 at...