- At least 100,000 people took to the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico yesterday, effectively shutting down the financial district as they marched to protest the impending layoffs of more than 10,000 government employees. Thousands more stayed home from work.
- Tens of thousands of Mexican workers marched along Mexico City’s main Reforma avenue to the Zocalo square to protest the closure of a state-run power utility yesterday in a challenge to President Felipe Calderon’s plans to clean up the bloated public sector.
- Hundreds of workers at a General Motors assembly plant in Thailand ended a 10-day strike yesterday after settling a pay dispute with the management.
- A group of small oil unions in Brazil are planning to close the state-run Petrobras headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, as well as prevent tankers from unloading cargoes at a nearby refinery in an effort to restart stalled talks.
- A coalition of Palestinian, Muslim, and human rights groups protested a speech at the University of Chicago by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last night.
