Union Wants to Block Mexican Trucks
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The Teamsters Union said it will ask a federal appeals courts to block the White House plan to begin allowing Mexican trucks to carry cargo anywhere in the United States
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Union officials said they were left no choice but to strike because General Motors was unwilling to accept the unionâs demand that it protect workersâ jobs and benefits.
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Mexico pleaded with President Bush on Monday to veto a Senate proposal to build a fence to keep illegal immigrants out, saying it could backfire by making the border less secure.
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With the All India Motor Transport Congress rejecting the government&#39;s last-minute bid for a negotiated settlement, truck owners have gone on an indefinite strike demanding the scrapping of service tax.
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The Polish government on Monday tried to defuse a crisis on the country's eastern EU border, where truckers are facing days of jams amid a wage protest by customs officers.
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Thousands of textile factory workers took to the streets blocking a major highway in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Saturday, demanding a pay rise and overtime payments.
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Thousands of South Korean unionized workers went on strike on Wednesday demanding laws to protect labor and an end to talks on a free trade deal with the United States, labor leaders said.
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Union leader to ask members to ignore calls for an academic boycott of Israel.
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Mexico said Friday it will try to persuade President Bush not to sign a bill that would extend a wall along the border in an effort to stop illegal immigrants.
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A Mexican judge issued an injunction on Thursday that could prevent former President Luis Echeverria from facing trial for his alleged role in a 1968 massacre of leftist students.
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The head of the United Auto Workers union on Monday said that a strike against the struggling U.S. auto industry remains a possibility should workers be unable to agree on terms with the three Detroit-based automakers in contract talks starting this week.
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DALLAS -- Auto makers filed suit Tuesday to block California from forcing the companies to make cars and trucks that emit lower levels of global-warming gases.
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Tens of thousands of trade unionists, farmers and leftists marched through downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to protest price increases for basic foods like tortillas &#151; the staple of Mexico's poor &#151; and to demand a change in economic policy.
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Truckers kept millions of vehicles off the roads on Tuesday, the fourth day of a strike against a proposed service tax on freight booking agents, and a million bank workers were set to stage a one-day strike over pay.
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Texas' largest Baptist group is taking a rare step into environmental advocacy, working to block Gov. Rick Perry's plan to speed the approval process for 18 new coal-fired power plants.
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Truckers have threatened to sharply escalate a week-old strike on Friday by vowing to disrupt supplies of essential commodities if the Government did not scrap a service tax on booking agents and release arrested leaders.
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Local leaders with the United Auto Workers union on Thursday began preparing to walk picket lines as soon as Friday if contract talks with General Motors Corp.  break down after the UAW singled out the No. 1 U.S. automaker as its strike target.