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WOLA: Labor Action Plan "clearly insufficient"

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September 23, 2011
The Washington Office on Latin America's Gimena Sanchez reports on Colombia's Labor Action Plan. "Twenty-two trade unionists have been murdered so far in 2011, with ten of them killed after the April 15 announcement of the LAP. Death threats and efforts to discredit labor activists also continue. The rate of impunity in cases of murdered trade unionists remains extremely high at 94 percent."

Unions' Intense Lobbying Stops Republicans from Crippling NLRB

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September 22, 2011
CWA and other unions Wednesday defeated an effort by Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from carrying out its mission to protect workers against employers' unfair labor practices.