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  • Indian ’slave’ children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap
    24 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ian McDougall in New Delhi
    Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
    Speaking to The Observer, the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.
    Gap said it was unaware that clothing intended for the Christmas market had been improperly subcontracted to a sweatshop using (…)

  • SILICOSIS- A DEATH TRAP FOR AGATE WORKERS IN GUJARAT AN ENQUIRY REPORT BY P.U.C.L.GUJARAT
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    SILICOSIS- A DEATH TRAP FOR AGATE WORKERS IN GUJARAT
    AN ENQUIRY REPORSILICOSIS- A DEATH TRAP FOR AGATE WORKERS IN GUJARAT
    AN ENQUIRY REPORT BY P.U.C.L.GUJARAT
    Workers working in the agate industries are dying of silicosis in regular interval for last 40 years in Khambhat. Families are wiped out totally. But there is no respite from the death trap of economically impoverished people of this area.
    The agate industry, is a household industry in the Khambhat region of Gujarat and its (…)

  • Some informations about the October 18th massive Strike in France
    21 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Since 1993, the Pensions are attacked by capitalists. The workers of private sector had to give 40 years of dues instead of 37,5 years since 1993 and retirement at 60. In 1995, the governement tried to attack railways workers retires. He also wanted to close 6 000 km of railways. These two attacks were fighted by railways workers by a victorious strike of 3 weeks. We obtain a delay of 12 years before the new attack of this year.
    In 2003, the governement change the conditions of Pensions (…)

  • Don’t Puke in the Banana Suit
    3 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Don’t Puke in the Banana Suit By David Glenn Cox
    What could I possibly mean with that title, Don’t Puke in the Banana Suit? Well, years ago I had a friend named Chris and we hung around together in a crowd of guys. Some of us who worked together and some of us were friends of friends and we partied and watched College football games together.
    One weekend Chris announced that he had gotten a part time job in advertising, on the weekends he would (…)

  • UNICOR,When Prisoners Work the System Works
    1 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    UNICOR, When Prisoners Work the System Works By David Glenn Cox
    "Arbeit macht frei" is a German phrase meaning "work brings freedom" or "work shall set you free/will free you" or "work liberates" and, literally in English, "work makes free". It became the unofficial slogan of Nazi concentration camps, as the prisoners would enter the camp they would see the wrought iron sign over head and would savor its (…)

  • GM’s U.S. Workers Strike After Contract Talks Fail
    25 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GM’s U.S. Workers Strike After Contract Talks Fail
    By Jeff Green and John Lippert
    Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp.’s U.S. factory employees staged their first nationwide strike in 37 years after the largest U.S. automaker failed to reach a new labor agreement with the United Auto Workers.
    The walkout, at 11 a.m. New York time, came 10 days after the union extended the old contract past its expiration while the two sides negotiated. The latest round of bargaining had run for (…)

  • Job losses spike as US mortgage firms feel downturn
    23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Job losses spike as US mortgage firms feel downturn
    08-22-2007, 17h43
    WASHINGTON
    A foreclosure sign sits in front of a home, March 2007 in Miami. Mortgage industry layoffs rose Wednesday and have jumped dramatically of late as surging home foreclosures and a credit squeeze force home lenders across America to scale back business.
    Mortgage industry layoffs rose Wednesday and have jumped dramatically of late as surging home foreclosures and a credit squeeze force home lenders across (…)

  • DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT?
    20 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “SPP has three fundamental objectives.to create more advantageous conditions for transnational corporations and remove remaining barriers to the flow of capital and crossborder production within the framework of NAFTA. It wants to secure access to natural resources, especially oil. And it wants to create a regional security plan based on “pushing its borders out” into a security perimeter that includes Mexico and Canada.”- Laura Carlsen, International Relations Centre. (…)

  • No One Told You When to Run
    9 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s incredibly hard to wake the working class, not because they are heavy sleepers or because they are lazy. But because they go to sleep tired and worried, about their kids and their jobs and their future. They are too preoccupied with the day to day struggle for life to hold intellectual arguments on class warfare. Much like our Iraqi brethren trying to live through Bushes shock and awe Saddam’s politics don’t mean a damn thing when you’re just trying to keep your family alive.
    I had to (…)

  • Train drivers threaten to derail the Merkel miracle
    7 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Roger Boyes in Berlin
    Germans faced the prospect of summer holiday chaos yesterday as train drivers voted for an unlimited nationwide strike. It seems set to be the worst rail strike in 15 years and, along with a threat of industrial action by airline pilots, could bring the country to a standstill.
    The timing is bad news for Angela Merkel, the Chancellor, who had hoped to crown Germany’s economic recovery with the successful privatisation of Deutsche Bahn, the German rail service. (…)