Argentina’s first wave of store lootings since 2001 started with people with covered faces breaking into six supermarkets in San Carlos de Bariloche, an Andean ski resort town.
Following up on an exposé last April of bribery by Wal-Mart de México, NY Times reporters have identified 19 Wal-Mart stores whose construction was aided by corruption.
Two men on a motorcycle gunned down a labor leader as tensions grew in a dispute between petroleum workers and their employer—as police try to implicate the union.
A Michigan autoworker has joined nine former employees of General Motors’ Colombian subsidiary who resumed a hunger strike they started last summer to protest their firings.
Bangladeshi workers blocked streets in a Dhaka industrial zone, throwing stones at factories and smashing vehicles, to demand justice for 112 people killed in a garment factory fire.
In a break with President Cristina Fernández, two major labor confederations protested the government’s economic policies with a one-day general strike.
The Mexican Senate passed a controversial “labor reform” after stripping out articles to promote union democracy; pro-business economists promise new growth for Mexico.
Xi Jinping was chosen as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party amid stepped-up repression and a wave of labor unrest in the Fujian and Zhejiang industrial zones.
An appeals court in Bahrain upheld verdicts against two members of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association for organizing a strike last year to support anti-government protests.
Egypt’s new government has launched the most serious set of attacks on workers’ rights since the days of Mubarak, with several activists sacked or prosecuted for organizing.
Reports of new wildcat strikes involving 4,000 workers at a Foxconn plant in Henan province are denied by the company—and harsh control of information bars corroboration.
A court in Kazakhstan sentenced an outspoken political activist to seven-and-a-half years in jail for allegedly colluding with a fugitive billionaire to overthrow the government.
