Union Busting: Castle & Cooke in Honduras

Union Busting: Castle & Cooke in Honduras

Castle & Cooke is well-known in the U.S. for the Dole bananas and pineapples it markets. In Honduras, it is ...
1968-1978: Contours of Crisis

1968-1978: Contours of Crisis

Even as it began, 1968 seemed to mark a new historical period for the world economy and the world-wide class ...
Honduras: Challenging Castle & Cooke

Honduras: Challenging Castle & Cooke

In a previous Update article (Nov.-Dec. 1977), NACLA described how Castle & Cooke (known for its Dole brand bananas) has ...
Puerto Rico: Attacks on Labor

Puerto Rico: Attacks on Labor

On November 10, over 10,000 workers, representing 42 labor unions, paralyzed traffic for hours as they marched to the Capitol ...
El Salvador: Uprising

El Salvador: Uprising

Since March, entire sections of El Salvador have been in a virtual state of civil war. El Salvador has been ...
LABOR: The State Labor Bureaucracy

LABOR: The State Labor Bureaucracy

The Mexican State has aggressively stimulated capital accumulation with subsidies to private enterprise through the electrical, oil and rail industries, ...
Chile-Labor Movement Update

Chile-Labor Movement Update

We can't have a free market economy which functions well without a compatible scheme for labor. Labor Minister Jose Pinero, ...