Daily Archives: December 9, 2008 »
Starbucks Employee Sacked For Raising Health and Safety Issue
Grand Rapids, MI — The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found after trial that Starbucks unlawfully terminated a barista here in retaliation for filing a safety complaint. The barista, a member of
Read More »Congress Busts the UAW
By Phil Mattera The United Automobile Workers has been effectively decertified as the collective bargaining representative of workers at General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. And the main union buster was not management, but rather
Read More »Police charge 49 after Stansted protest
Nearly 50 people have been charged following yesterday’s climate change protests at Stansted airport. Essex police said in a brief statement that 49 people had been charged with aggravated trespass. They, along with several
Read More »Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa
By Keith Harmon Snow War in Congo has again been splashed across world headlines and the same old clichés about violence and suffering are repackaged and rebroadcast as “news”. Meanwhile, early indications out of
Read More »Legal Scholars Outraged by Talk of Blanket Pardons
By Daphne Eviatar In his Nov. 16 interview on CBS’s “60 minutes,” President-elect Barack Obama reiterated his pledge to shut down Guantanamo Bay and end U.S.-sponsored torture. Both actions would be “part and parcel
Read More »Blackwater shootings case moved to Washington DC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five Blackwater Worldwide guards charged with the unprovoked shooting that killed 14 innocent Iraqis and wounded dozens of others in 2007 will get their day in a Washington court after unsuccessfully
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