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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: 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: 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
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 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...
