Labor
Judge OKs minor fine on terror-sponsor Chiquita
September 28, 2007Colombia’s right-wing paramilitaries are terrorists. Washington named them as such in September 2001. But the AUC, as they are known from their Spanish initials, rule the roost in Urabá in northern Colombia. So what should a...
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Solidarity and Mexican truckers
September 21, 2007The U.S. Senate voted 75-23 Sept. 11 to ban Mexican trucks from U.S. highways. The vote rejected a Bush administration program that would allow Mexican truck drivers to operate beyond commercial zones near the Mexican border....
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Striking loggers, environmentalists unite
September 21, 2007PITTSBURGH — In front of 100 Home Depot stores in Canada and the United States, members of the United Steelworkers and environmental activists from the Sierra Club and the Rainforest Action Network will be distributing flyers,...
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Meatpackers union sues on immigration raids
September 21, 2007Mike Graves, a 21-year veteran at the Swift & Co. plant in Marshalltown, Iowa, stood in front of a crowd of reporters in Washington, D.C., Sept. 12 and held a pair of handcuffs high over his...
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Panel OKs bill overturning Kentucky River/NLRB decisions
September 20, 2007WASHINGTON (PAI)--By a 26-20 party-line vote 11 months after the rulings were issued, the Democratic-run House Education and Labor Committee voted Sept. 19 to overturn the National Labor Relations Board’s “workers are supervisors” decisions. If approved...
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