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Bacon: Fear of Firing
Zmag Article, June, 01 2003
David Bacon
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I n a landmark opinion, Brooklyn judge, Steven Davis, a hearing officer for the National Labor Relations Board, ordered Extreme Building Services, an asbestos removal company, to stop “physic...
Bacon: Using National Security To Bash Workers
Znet Article, May, 12 2003
David Bacon
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After a year of fighting with the Federal government over the rights of displaced airport baggage screeners, Kawal Ulanday finally got a response from authorities. The FBI knocked on his door. Agent William Root arrived with a list of questions r...
Bacon: Showdown Coming In Mexico Over Privatization
Znet Article, February, 23 2003
David Bacon
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In the 1930s and 40s, General Lazaro Cardenas made nationalization of economic resources and land reform symbols of Mexican national sovereignty. Nationalist economic development, however, was overthrown as the bedrock of the country's economic st...
Bacon: Global Labor Rejects War
Znet Article, February, 21 2003
David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (2/19/03) -- After a weekend of demonstrations involving over 10 million people worldwide, protesting an impending US war on Iraq, opposition to the Bush plan in many countries is hardly a question. But US military action may hav...
Bacon: Anti-China Campaign Hides Maquiladora Wage Cuts
Znet Article, February, 03 2003
David Bacon
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GOMEZ PALACIOS, DURANGO (1/27/03) -- For decades, US workers have been told their wages were too high -- that higher labor costs would force their employers to move to Mexico. Now Mexican workers, whose numbers on the border have mushroomed in the...
Bacon: The Barbed Wire Straitjacket
Zmag Article, February, 01 2003
David Bacon
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I n 1981, when President Ronald Reagan replaced thousands of air traffic controllers and threw their leaders in jail, the permanent replacement of strikers became a normal aspect of U.S. labor rela...
Bacon: Immigrants In The Crosshairs
Znet Article, December, 18 2002
David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (12/15/02) -- Erlinda Valencia came from the Philippines almost two decades ago. Like many Filipina immigrants living in the San Francisco Bay area, she found a job at the airport, screening passengers' baggage. For 14 years she...
Bacon: Cross-Border Organizing
Zmag Article, December, 01 2002
David Bacon
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Indigenous people from Oaxaca have been migrating within Mexico and to the U.S. for decades. Many were braceros during that program’s 22-year run from 1942 to 1964. In Mexican agricultural valleys fr...
Bacon: Bush Threatens Dockers' Right To Strike
Znet Article, August, 10 2002
David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (8/7/02) -- A labor war is looming on the west coast docks, which could become the defining union conflict of the Bush administration. But the traditional issues of union bargaining -- wages, benefits and working conditions -- ha...
Bacon: Teaching Peace In A Time Of War
Zmag Article, July, 01 2002
David Bacon
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On May 26, Colombian voters elected the former mayor of Medellin, Alvaro Uribe, president. The candidate of the right, Urib president e has long-standing ties to paramilitaries, who are accused of th...
Bacon: Teaching Peace in a Time of War
Znet Article, May, 31 2002
David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (5/28/02) -- On Sunday, Colombian voters elected President the former mayor of Medellin, Alvaro Uribe. The candidate of the right, Uribe has long-standing ties to the paramilitaries, who are accused of the worst of the human righ...
Bacon: The Fruits Of NAFTA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
David Bacon
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The Fruits Of NAFTA
Bacon: The Coca-Cola Killings:
Znet Article, January, 22 2002
David Bacon
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After the leader of their union was shot down at their plant gate in late 1996, Edgar Paéz and his co-workers at the Coca-Cola bottling factory in Carepa, Colombia, tried for more than four years to get their government to take action against the...
Bacon: Britons Organize Against Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Britons Organize Against Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
Bacon: Employer Sanctions
Zmag Article, July, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Employer Sanctions
Bacon: Paolo Friere Hits LAx92s Mean Streets
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Paolo Friere Hits LAx92s Mean Streets
Bacon: Junked Workers Test NAFTA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Plant managers called them the “jonkeados”—the junked ones. They were workers who got so sick, so chronically disabled, that they were given special jobs. But they weren’t put on “light duty,” to tide them over un...
Bacon: Unions Take On Immigration-Related Firings
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
David Bacon
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Unions Take On Immigration-Related Firings
Bacon: The Poor Fight For UNAM
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
David Bacon
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In early February, when Mexico’s Federal government moved to end the strike at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), its action was motivated less by concern over the fate of the institution and its students, and much m...
Bacon: Will A Social Clause In Trade Agreements Advance International Solidarity?
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
David Bacon
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David Bacon On November 30 the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of union members to demonstrate in Seattle outside the meeting of trade ministers of the World Trade Organization. The labor federation called for incor...
