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Both companies want at least some commitment on the extent of the union concessions by Feb.17 when GM and Chrysler are scheduled to submit drafts of their new "viability plans" to the Treasury department. The automakers are supposed to show they have labor costs that are "competitive" with foreign car companies operating in the U.S. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...military regime, is even worse. As a new human-rights report released on Jan. 28, as well as the recent stories of destitute refugees who fled Burma attest to, members of Burma's ethnic groups face persistent discrimination by the military regime. They are the targets of unpaid forced labor campaigns, scorched-earth policies that destroy farmland and relocation programs that require entire villages to move at a moment's notice. (See pictures of Burma's 19 years of protest...
...Muslim group that has been refused citizenship by the Burmese government by the Burmese government since 1982 when the junta implemented a citizenship law. As a consequence, the stateless Rohingya, who number around 800,000 in western Burma and physically resemble Bengalis, are prime targets for forced-labor drives by the junta. Since the military took power in 1962, hundreds of thousands have fled to Bangladesh, Malaysia and Thailand, where their illegal-immigrant status makes them vulnerable to labor abuses...
...there another way to express your unhappiness?' JEAN-FRANÇOIS COPE, of France's National Assembly, on the prospect of the country's transportation networks, public schools and government offices shutting down after labor unions called for a one-day strike...
...Still, union leaders warn they may repeat the action if Sarkozy fails to respond to what they say was the biggest labor protest in 20 years. "I cannot imagine tomorrow we'll hear the same old 'I saw nothing, I heard nothing, and I have nothing to say,'" Bernard Thibault, general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor warned Thursday. "It's just not possible...