Stop the failed “free” trade model! The Obama administration has set the goal of finalizing the US free trade agreement with South Korea before the G20 Summit to be held in Seoul on November 11th. Unfortunately, this is the same agreement that was negotiated with Bush and does not take into account any of Obama’s…
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Support Mexico’s Electricians’ Union
In October of last year, the Mexican police and military occupied the Mexican state-owned electric company, Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LFC) displacing 44,000 employees in an attempt to break Mexico’s oldest union, the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME). The occupation of the LFC and displacement of the workers was done in the name of…
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Stop Union Busting in Mexico – Urgent Action Required!
Employees Forced to Resign from Union or Lose Their Jobs (This alert was originally published by LabourStart.) Some 30,000 technical and professional employees of PEMEX (the huge public Mexican petroleum complex) finally won the right to unionize upon their third attempt. The new union’s victory was short lived. Some fifty leaders and activists active in…
Action alerts, Labor, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Support Mexican Miners
Mexican Government Intervention in Strike – Cananea Miners Update This alert was originally published by LabourStart. Some 1,200 members of Mexico’s National Miners’ and Metalworkers’ Union, or Los Mineros, have been on strike since July 2007 at the Cananea mine over health and safety and other contract violations. Grupo Mexico – the mining giant which…
Action alerts, Labor, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Support REAL Trade Reform!
In what appears to be one of the most promising efforts toward trade reform in recent memory, both the Senate and the House have a progressive new trade bill before them. The bill is gathering momentum, and in the House it already had 127 co-sponsors!
