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:: Thursday, December 11, 2003 ::

Unions Rally to Protest Labor Policy By John Crawley, Reuters
Thousands of union workers rallied at the Labor Department, marched on Wall Street and demonstrated in other cities on Wednesday to press their grievances against the Bush administration and U.S. business.

Billed as a day of protest to mark International Human Rights Day, assertions of on-the-job threats and intimidation against labor organizers and ordinary workers underpinned a larger call to defeat President Bush in 2004 and rewrite U.S. labor laws.

"We will remember in November -- and we will vote accordingly," said James Hoffa, president of the Teamsters union, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO.

Europe Condemns US Workers Rights Violations posted by Nathan Newman
The sad fact is that the US repeatedly fails to live up to international law on union rights embodied in the UN Charter and the International Labor Organization agreements that it's signed:

“While Europe’s working people have the right to trade union membership and representation, workers in our major trading partner the USA, are often deprived of this right as more and more employers take advantage of the growing anti-union climate there”, said John Monks, General Secretary of the 60 million-member European Trade Union Confederation.

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