Blog: January 2009

G4S Security Workers Sign Global Agreement

January 9, 2009

The agreement came as part of a major campaign led by the Alliance for Justice at G4S which included unions from Malawi to India to Sweden.  Earlier in December, G4S workers in Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal and the Democratic Republic of the Congo settled a complaint about the company that had been filed with the OECD National Contact Point in the UK in 2006.  That complaint alleged that G4S violated the OECD Guidelines for Multinationals in those four countries.  The settlement includes a number of commitments, but partly calls on the

Postville Immigration Raid and affects on Luther College Community

January 5, 2009

When the raid happened the principal of the local public school said that it was the saddest day of his life, having to separate his Hispanic students from the others to keep them in the gymnasium until it was determined if their parents had been taken in the raid or not. Many of these children still have anxiety problems because of having one of their parents taken away. Behavior problems have also become increasingly prevalent for the children who are still left in Postville.

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