More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests in the past month....
Paris rubbish collectors could strike over the summer, a major French union said Thursday, raising the spectre of piles of stinking trash on the streets during the Olympic Games. Walkouts could start in May and continue from July 1 to September 8, the CGT union branch representing binmen warned, a period that includes the Games,...
Private job providers can claim public money when jobseekers find work. But they need their payslips to do so, and some resort to extreme methods to get them
International Labour Organization report says profits have risen to £184bn a year, with 27m people globally trapped in modern slavery. Sex traffickers are making an average of £21,000 a year from each of their victims as profits from forced labour around the world soar, according to new estimates from the International Labour...
Germany has again been hit by a double wave of strikes in the transport sector, as train drivers and aeroplane cabin crews stopped work on Tuesday in ongoing wage disputes. Around 80% of long-distance trains were cancelled on Tuesday as train drivers from the state-owned rail company Deutsche Bahn went on strike. At major air...
For too long, the United Food and Commercial Workers union has been missing in action for its essential workers.
In addition to a financial settlement, Uber and Lyft agreed to ongoing changes in how they pay drivers and offer benefits in New York state
Hyatt Regency Long Beach failed to rehire 25 employees laid off during COVID-19 shutdowns when the jobs became available again, the California Labor Commissioner's office said.
Trump’s NLRB removed board authority over religiously affiliated colleges, allowing unions to be weakened.
AFT members and leaders lined the streets of Houston Oct. 20 protesting the state takeover of the Houston Independent School District. Since the Texas Education Agency snatched control from the elected school board, parents and educators have been shut out of decisions that are harming schools: libraries have been shut down and...
The Philippines can provide Micronesia with the necessary workforce, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said. The lifting the deployment ban for overseas Filipino workers in Micronesia would change the dynamics and enable Filipinos to see certain things that can be done in the island nation, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said...
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Negotiators representing the Writers Guild of America and major studios reached a tentative agreement for a new labor contract, ending a writers' strike that began in early May.
Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed last week after months of starts and stops.
A U.N. envoy urged Ecuador's leaders Friday to boost enforcement of labor laws and end popular fuel subsidies as part of key policy changes needed alongside their continuing efforts to combat the drug-related crime that has undermined the country's peaceful image....
The shortage of workers in Russia's non-defence industries has increased due to mobilisation and conscription, especially in the IT sector after the massive departure of specialists from the country.
The Postal Service has announced that the Greater New Jersey P&DC in Kearny, NJ, will be closed early next year. The discontinuance is targeted for February 24, 2024.
The proposed rule would lift the salary threshold for overtime pay from $35,568 to $55,000.
Several thousand Postal Service rural carriers have expressed an interest in leaving their union, after most of them saw pay cuts under a new pay system.
Full-time UPS drivers could earn an average of $170,000 under the tentative contract between the Teamsters and the shipping giant, UPS' CEO said.
In the first major walkout by Los Angeles city government workers in decades, thousands walked off the job Tuesday.
I'm so sick of this! Everyone keeps saying that the trades are desperate for workers, but no company wants to train them. They expect you to be in a good life situation to be able to go to school for the experience, but a lot of us have neither the money nor time to do so! School is expensive, you don't get paid for it, and most...
Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers....
Labor unions marched across Nigeria on Wednesday to protest the soaring cost of living under the West African nation’s new president, with calls for the government to improve social welfare interventions to reduce hardship....
The National Labor Relations Board found merit to several unfair labor practice allegations from the new Howard Brown Health union.
