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Headlines from LabourStart

• South Africa: Labor Union Representing 210,000 South African State Workers Begins Strike

  7/28/2010 8:00:00 PM

• Turkey: Workers protest union-busting sackings by UPS

  7/28/2010 8:00:00 PM

• Bangladesh: Workers’ organization stripped of legal status, staff detained and beaten

  7/28/2010 8:00:00 PM

• Mexico: Grupo México’s Infamous Safety Legacy Lives on at Cananea

  7/26/2010 8:00:00 PM

• Honduras: Nike pays $1.5 million to relief fund for laid-off workers

  7/26/2010 8:00:00 PM

• USA: SEIU, Workers United and UNITE HERE settle disputes

  7/26/2010 8:00:00 PM

• Iraq: Trade Unions Banned in the Electricity Sector

  7/26/2010 8:00:00 PM

• Cambodia: Striking garment workers battle police

  7/26/2010 8:00:00 PM

• Bangladesh: Millions of Garment Workers Push for Pay Rise From $28 to $76 a Month

  7/24/2010 8:00:00 PM

• India: Foxconn plant shut down following toxic gas leak affecting 37 workers

  7/24/2010 8:00:00 PM

• South Africa: COSATU backs Dis-Chem strike now in 8th week

  7/23/2010 8:00:00 PM

• Russia: Unions fear government crackdown with new laws on terrorism and extremism

  7/23/2010 8:00:00 PM

• China: Honda-supplier strikers get 45 percent pay rise, union lobbies for formal wage negotiation system

  7/22/2010 8:00:00 PM

• USA: Thousands of hotel workers in 15 cities across North America protest mistreatment by Hyatt

  7/22/2010 8:00:00 PM

• Global: How unions too can benefit from globalization

  7/22/2010 8:00:00 PM