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  • Scared Smithfield workers stay home

    01/26/2007 1:29:47 PM PST · by kennedy · 62 replies · 1,596+ views
    FayObserver.com ^ | January 26, 2007 | Jennifer Plotnick
    The 21 Smithfield Packing Co. employees arrested by immigration officials while they worked Wednesday are in the process of being deported. The 20 men and one woman arrested were moved Thursday from the Mecklenburg County Jail to Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., nearly 700 miles from Tar Heel. Meanwhile, church officials within the region’s Hispanic community and spokespeople with the United Food & Commercial Workers union said the workers’ families didn’t know where they were and other immigrant workers were terrified of more arrests. Production at the plant was substantially diminished Thursday as workers stayed away. “There are hundreds...
  • AFL-CIO's Gene Bruskin & USLAW join with British & Iraqi Trade Unions against War & unions in Iraq

    10/08/2004 12:13:47 AM PDT · by Bronc1 · 5 replies · 372+ views
    U. S. Labor Against the War ^ | October 8, 2004 | Bronc1
    U. S. Labor Against the War (also known as USLAW) met with British & Iraqi trade union representatives to reaffirm opposition to the Iraqi War and in support of Iraqi unionization. Here's a report by USLAW's Gene Bruskin on the August 4-7, 2004 meeting in London...and evidence of what American union dues are funding!