THIS WEEK IN LABOR
NLRB decision looms; ‘Ring my bell’; CBTU calls for Zimbabwe solidarity; Union pie; Two workers die, manager sentenced to teach safety class; More workers in debt; Now in aisle 6 — Wal-Mart voter guides; World Bank’s dirty business; Whistle blowers silenced; This week’s tally for health care; Workers’ comp for 9/11 workers; Laborers get to work
Social Security and the November elections
George Bush is getting set for another attempt to raid Social Security by deliberately and falsely connecting the retirement program with the crisis facing health care in the U.S
Houston janitors campaign for justice
HOUSTON — Demanding wage increases to $8.50 per hour, more work hours, and access to health care, a convention of 800 janitors voted overwhelmingly Sept. 23 to authorize their SEIU bargaining committee to call the city’s 5,300 union janitors out on strike if necessary.
Hungarians call for premiers resignation
After a secret speech by Hungarian Premier Ferenc Gyurcsany, in which he admitted to having lied to Hungarians “morning, noon and night” about the state of the economy, was leaked to the press, Sept. 17, all hell broke loose.
Marchers demand freedom of Cuban 5
WASHINGTON — The struggle for the freedom of the Cuban Five reached a new level Sept. 23 when activists from 30 U.S. cities across the nation marched on the White House to demand their release. The march was followed by a public forum at George Washington University.
WORLD NOTES
South Africa: Militants step up struggle against AIDS Philippines: Resistance to human rights abuses Palestine: Humanitarian crisis intenstifies Haiti: Dealing with crushing debt South Korea: Protests over U.S. base expansion
Puerto Ricans rally for independence
Thousands of people in Lares, Puerto Rico, lashed out at the United States last weekend while marking the anniversary of the colony’s first call for independence and denouncing the FBI for the shooting death of independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios a year ago
Protesters tell Blair: Take your wars with you
MANCHESTER, England — Thousands of peace protesters descended on this northern British city last weekend to tell Prime Minister Tony Blair to “take your wars and privatization with you when you go.”
Making history in Massachusetts
Deval Patrick won the Massachusetts Democratic primaries Sept. 19 against venture capitalist Chris Gabrieli and State Attorney General Tom Reilly.
