Industrial Workers of the World

200,000 people marched in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, against budget cuts and attacks on working people and their unions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/us/16puerto.html?_r=1

Solidarity actions were held across the USA.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/10/15/union-movement-rallies-in-solidarity-with-puerto-rican-workers/#

Labour Start has complete coverage of this extraordinary struggle

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/show_news.pl?country=Puerto%20Rico&alllanguages=1&languagename=English&langcode=en〈=English

Protests continued after Oct. 15. Members of the National Hostosian Independence Movement (MINH) demonstrated against the governor when he appeared at a ceremony at the Julita Ross amphitheater in Toa Baja on Oct. 17. The labor unions said on Oct. 16 that they planned to continue the struggle until they had overturned Law 7, which permits the layoffs. Methodist bishop Juan Vera, a spokesperson for protest organizers, warned that there may be another general strike. "The people are tired of so much abuse," he told the Cuban news service Prensa Latina. (ED-LP, Oct. 1 from AP; PL, Oct. 16)

http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2009/10/wnu-1008-indigenous-people-mark-oct-12.html