“We’re betting on peace for a concerted effort; Venezuelans are not going to allow the country to miss this opportunity for dialogue.”
Claudio Fermin, leader of the ‘Soluciones Para Venezuela’ opposition party, railed against lawmaker Juan Guaido, accusing him of wasting the opportunity for peace talks. Fermin also addressed sanctions, attacking them as an enemy of peace and economic recovery.
DETROIT—General Motors’ intransigence on a new contract that would restore financial hits workers took during and after 2008 Great Recession has forced 49,200 members of the United Auto Workers toiling for the largest Detroit-based car company to strike at 11:59 pm-midnight Eastern Time on Sept. 15.
The old pacts between the Detroit Three—GM, Ford, and FiatChrysler—expired the day before, but the union kept talking, and workers kept working, at the other two car companies.
More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike.
It is the first nationwide strike in more than a decade for General Motors, as the last time its workers took industrial action was in 2007 when they staged a two-day strike over contract talks.Read More »
Brazilian Federal Criminal Judge holds that the complaint against Lula da Silva does not have serious and credible probative support.
The Sao Paulo’s 7th Federal Criminal Court Judge Ali Mazloum on Monday rejected the Federal Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) complaint against Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his brother Jose Ferreira da Silva, both of whom were charged with receiving US$275,000 in alleged “allowances” from the Odebrecht engineering company.
To minimize the impact of this conjunctural situation on services for the population, limited resources will be allocated to priority areas, as discussed and approved by the Party Political Bureau, led by its first secretary, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz. Photo: Juvenal Balán
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