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Growing Factory Occupations Threaten to Break the Banks

Mike Elk | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Labor, Chicago Factory Sit-In, Strikes, Wall Street, Martin Luther King, Financial Reform, Paul Krugman, Obama, Unions, Hartmarx, Barack Obama, Business News
Mike Elk

The successful struggle at Republic Windows has provided a model under which workers can successfully fight the banks by occupying their plants.

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May Day Fails its Promise to Workers

Bama Arethrya | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Protests, Alvaro Uribe, Free Trade, Strikes, Workers, May Day, Colombia, Philippines, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, May 1st, World News
Bama Arethrya

We should think about commemorating May Day this year by standing in solidarity with the workers of Colombia and the Philippines, and anywhere where organizing is life-threatening.

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French Troops In Guadeloupe To Quell Violent Riots

BBC NEWS | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: France, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, Strikes, Gendarmerie Officers, French Carribean, President Nicolas Sarkozy, Riots in Guadeloupe, Jacques Bino, French Troops in Guadeloupe, Carribean, Point-a-Pitre, Martinique, World News

France is sending four military police units to Guadeloupe after one person was killed during month-long riots and strikes on the French Caribbean isl...

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Negotiating with Taxis

Lauren Hilgers | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: China, Taxis, World Expo, Media, Strikes, World News
Lauren Hilgers

I've had near-death experiences as a pedestrian in China, but inside taxis, drivers have educated me on topics from the financial crisis, aliens and, of course, the difficult business of being a taxi driver in China.

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Boeing Workers End Strike, Return To Work

AP | RORY MARSHALL | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Boeing, Boeing Strike, Strikes, Labor, Unions, Business News

SEATTLE — Boeing Co. production workers began returning Sunday night to the factories where they build jetliners, one day after they voted to en...

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