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Monday, August 18th, 2008For the past couple years, SEIU has led the fight for greater transparency and improved governance at private equity firms. Now the union is taking the fight directly to key funders of PE firms - large state pension funds on the west coast.
Earlier this year, SEIU backed a bill in California that would have challenged [...]
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Petrobras: People vs. Profit
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Why does it seem that extractive industry companies are always the ones being picked on? After all, they have to make a profit too? Why should their operations be scrutinized ever more so than those of other industries? At the risk of generalizing, the history of extractive industries justifies such scrutiny—especially in regards to community [...]
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2008: Colombia Trade Unionists Die in Greater Numbers
Saturday, August 9th, 2008For the first four months of 2008, there has been an increase in the number of trade union officials and members in comparison with the same period in 2007. This is the crux of the findings in a report entitled ”WORRYING INCREASE IN ASSASINATIONS AGAINST UNIONIZED WORKERS IN COLOMBIA,” which was published by the Escuela Nacionale Sindical [...]
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Unions in China: An Offer WalMart Can’t Refuse
Friday, August 8th, 2008As noted in an earlier post on this subject (”A Union Even Wal-Mart Can Love”) Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, has reconfigured its operations around the world, even pulling out of some markets altogether. But, in a reflection of just how different operating conditions are in China, Walmart signed collective-bargaining agreements with workers in two provinces [...]
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China-Congo Investment Deal – Who’s getting the Short Stick?
Thursday, August 7th, 2008China signed a $9 billion deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year to allow China access to the African country’s mineral resources. In return, China plans to invest (by way of Chinese contractors) in a new transportation network—a 1,000-mile road from the Zambian border to northeastern Congo. Infrastructure improvements such as this [...]
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