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Congressional hearings on corporate espionage would be a good place to start figuring out how to regulate the practice.

We do not discount the anxieties of Europeans whose lives have been transformed by globalization, but the answer is not to pretend that immigrant labor isn’t needed.

To protect American workers means, at the very least, fixing the employment database before beginning a huge, untested worker-verification experiment.

The police said 121 people had been crammed inside an airtight seafood container late Wednesday night that measured just 20 feet long and 7 feet wide.

The Social Security system is adaptable to the 21st century, if only the political will can be found to champion the necessary changes.

In Clarks Summit, Pa., the new politics of immigration has put Keith Eckel, one of the largest tomato growers in the Northeast, out of business.

Technology companies have urged Congress to raise the annual limit of 65,000, saying they face damaging shortages of engineers and software technicians.

Leave it to the Bush administration to throw thousands of law-abiding American workers and companies off a cliff in perilous economic times.

Some of the country’s biggest corporations have been complaining that American immigration policies are thwarting New York’s ability to compete with other world capitals.

Only by bringing people onto the books, being realistic about the supply of visas, and letting people in through ports of entry will the country restore order to the broken system.

Behind the buzz over Brazil’s cane-based ethanol production lurk enduring social problems.

The victims were among an estimated 300,000 ethnic Koreans from China who now live in South Korea and pursue their “Korean dream” at the lowest rung of South Korea’s labor market.

Burger King has refused to follow McDonald’s and Taco Bell in making tomato suppliers pay their pickers more.

In Malaysia, foreign workers have become the targets of an expanding campaign of harassment, arrest, whippings, imprisonment and deportation.

Telling Burger King to pay an extra penny for tomatoes and provide a decent wage to migrant workers would hardly bankrupt the company.

The Age
Evans opens door to unskilled migrants
ABC Online, Australia - 1 hour ago
The Federal Government will introduce a new unskilled migration program to attract workers in a bid to lessen Australia's labour shortage. ...
Migrants the ALP isn't game to crow about The Australian
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On the occasion of the Summit of Heads of States of the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean (EU-LAC) countries in Lima, the international trade union movement has called for the declaration of the IV Trade Union EU-LAC Summit to be taken into account when drawing up the conclusions.

Brussels, 16 May 2008 (ITUC OnLine): On the occasion of the Summit of Heads of States of the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean (EU-LAC) countries in Lima, the international trade union movement has called for the declaration of the IV Trade Union EU-LAC Summit to be taken into account when drawing up the conclusions. The IV Trade Union EU-LAC Summit was organised by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the Trade Union Confederation of the Workers of the Americas (TUCA) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on 16 April in Lima with the participation of many national trade union confederations from the EU-LAC regions.

In the Declaration, the European, Latin American and Caribbean trade unions pledge their full commitment to sub-regional integration processes and call for MERCOSUR, the Andean Community, the Central American Integration System (SICA) and the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM/CARICOM) to develop solid and democratic institutions which accurately represent the views held by the citizens of their member countries.

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The ITUC represents 168 million workers in 155 countries and territories and has 311 national affiliates. Website: www.ituc-csi.org

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LIVENEWS.com.au
Labor promises massive increase in migration to lure workers
NEWS.com.au, Australia - 11 hours ago
He said the debate about temporary migration was over; the coming debate would be about semi-skilled and unskilled migrants to meet labour shortages. ...
Rudd to overhaul Australian migration LIVENEWS.com.au
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The Australian
Open door
The Australian, Australia - 12 hours ago
So how does Labor handle the politics? Evans says: "I think Australians are prepared to accept strong migration provided they think we need the skills and ...

The Australian
Open door
The Australian, Australia - 17 minutes ago
So how does Labor handle the politics? Evans says: "I think Australians are prepared to accept strong migration provided they think we need the skills and ...