Zapatista leaders in Chiapas declared support for striking farmworkers in Baja California's San Quintín Valley, who clashed with police at a march for a $13-a-day minium wage.
Political and economic issues combined to generate an effective two-day general strike that was honored in the capital and some other parts of Haiti.
The Mexican government said it raided an assembly plant in Jalisco and saved 129 workers from labor abuse, although there are now some questions about the action.
Union organizers say three apparel companies have finally agreed to pay the legal minimum wage and even to provide some of the retroactive pay owed to workers.
Thousands of youth marched on Peru's Congress to demand repeal of a new labor law cutting benefits to young workers. Street clashes with police left 20 detained.
After decades of effort, some 14,000 ex-banana workers are finally getting compensation for their exposure to a dangerous pesticide in Costa Rica.
On a day when US labor activists charged that GM has bribed Colombian officials, US embassy personnel in Colombia were assaulting injured GM workers at a protest.
Using the pretext of last spring's uptick in immigration by Central American children, the US is pushing for still more of its failed "drug war" and "free trade" policies.
The US has been requiring its "free trade" partners to meet certain labor standards. A US government report raises questions about the policy's effectiveness.
A decade after striking workers were massacred at Hacienda Luisita in Central Luzon, nobody has been brought to justice. Survivors now demand resignation of President Aquino.
Under pressure to end a job action that tied up Costa Rica's main port, management and the union made a deal to end the strike—without addressing the issues.
Helicopters were patrolling the skies over Limón after striking dockworkers and police clashed in the latest installment of an eight-year struggle over privatizing the Caribbean port.
