Peru’s Mining Conflicts: Ollanta Humala’s Ticking Time Bomb
Left-leaning president Ollanta Humala faces the formidable task of resolving a growing number of mining conflicts, especially in the Puno ...
Behind the Oil Workers’ Strike in Colombia
Last week, in perhaps the largest recent strike in Colombia, 10,000 workers walked out of several multinational oil companies in ...
Bolivia: The COB vs. the GOB
The conspicuous absence of the COB, Bolivia’s national trade union federation, from the government’s official International Workers’ Day celebration on ...
Puerto Rican Workers Strike Back
Under the slogan of "Puerto Rico Is Not For Sale," over 500,000 Puerto Rican workers––one half of the island's labor ...
BRAZIL Workers Have a Better Idea
When I arrived at the Ford plant with union president "Vicentinho," several thousand workers were gath- ered at the factory ...
Guatemalan Labor-Coke Boycott Wins (For Now)
After five years of bitter strug- gle, the workers of the Embotella- dora Guatemalteca, S.A. (EGSA) -the U.S.-owned Coca-Cola fran- ...
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 ...
LABOR: Perspectives
The government repression of the electrical workers' strike in July 1976 fit with cold logic into the overall panorama of ...
