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LAUREL, Miss. - A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again.

Wives of Men Arrested in Largest Immigration Raid in US History Forbidden to Work...or Leave.

By Tom Sandborn - August 21, 2008

For the first time, foreign workers imported to pick B.C. crops have been allowed to join a union...Migrant workers at Greenway Farms in Surrey have voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) of Canada. The historic certification was granted with the support of more than 75 per cent of the roughly 40 affected workers. Never before had B.C.'s Labour Relations Board approved a union to represent [migrant] workers...

Greetings from the International Solidarity Commission (ISC) of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and welcome to the fourth digest of our monthly international news letter.

The purpose of this newsletter is to keep our allies around the world informed of our activities, solidarity campaigns, and relevant international labour struggles.

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"I firmly believe that ordinary British Columbians would not want their government to act in such a cruel manner, which is why this has been done so secretively." — Disability activist Dawn Steele

Young adults with serious developmental disabilities and an IQ even a point above 70 will be cut off from government help.

Unite Here's forays into community activism are what most set it apart from other unions. Photo: Unite Here

Hotel union strikes, rallies and demands social change; gets contracts

Featuring:

• 400 Truckers in Stockton, California strike the industry
• Spain: 'What's going on in Starbucks?' CNT member fired
• Forum on industrial organizing with the IWW in Chile
• Barrick Gold in Pascua Lama, Chile

Inspired by the mobilizing on the West Coast, organizers across "Canada" have begun awareness-raising efforts. Building on the call from the West Coast for anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistance to the Olympics, some organizers affiliated with the People's Global Action Bloc (PGA-Bloc) in Ontario and Quebec have begun mobilizing around "Resistance 2010", linking anti-Olympics efforts to organizing against the G8 and SPP, and the day-to-day systems and institutions of power and oppression they represent.

CBC News | Agreement 'incompatible' with company's way of doing business: spokesman

A Quebec arbitrator has imposed a collective agreement on Wal-Mart for the first time in the world's largest retailer's history.

"In the old days it was expected that about half the children in a family would die before they grew up; this involved pain, illness, and sorrow to the mother, often great suffering to the children, and a waste of natural resources in the care of children who never lived to become productive." - Bertrand Russell, 1931

Ian Sinclair at the Morning Star...did an interesting interview with "Catherine, a prostitute, dominatrix and activist with the International Union of Sex Workers..."

"...[W]e didn't go out and rescue the miners, take them away and give them a wash, and say ‘come and do this you will be much happier'. We gave them rights, we gave them bargaining power."

From The Providence Journal

By David Scharfenberg

Journal Staff Writer

Bangladesh Garment Workers RiotThousands of workers from neighbouring factories rioted in solidarity at a garment factory where hundreds of (mainly) women had been fired without pay and two were beaten by private security.