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Ranks Of Europe’s Low-Paid Public Sector Workers Increase
28/09/2012 Comments Off on Ranks Of Europe’s Low-Paid Public Sector Workers Increase
Low Paid Public Sector Workers In Europe Greece Impoverishment of public employees (fall in wages by 15-20% in 2011 and new cuts by an additional -15% in 2012) due to the abolition of 13th and 14th month salaries, and a cut in the minimum wage. Hungary In 2010, 55% of public employees with less […]
Continue reading …Can Co-Operatives Conquer Capitalism And Change The Way The World Works?
28/09/2012 Comments Off on Can Co-Operatives Conquer Capitalism And Change The Way The World Works?
By WAYNE ELLWOOD, New Internationalist — In the eyes of the mainstream media and the high priests of the free market, Argentina just doesn’t get it. This past May, the country was savaged by the international business press for nationalizing the Spanish-owned oil company, YPF. Scarcely mentioned was the fact that Argentina’s oil and gas […]
Continue reading …Workplace Stress: WWOW’s How To Deal With Workplace Stress – A Handy Chart
28/09/2012 Comments Off on Workplace Stress: WWOW’s How To Deal With Workplace Stress – A Handy Chart
Workplace Stress How To Deal With Workplace Stress – A Handy Reference Chart Workplace Stress – How To Deal click on the chart for full-size view Print and place in a prominent location in your workplace. Go ahead. It’s OK. WOW – here’s some other helpful links about dealing with workplace stress: How to Reduce […]
Continue reading …The Working Mom Survival Guide – 11 Steps To Better Work-Life Balance
26/09/2012 Comments Off on The Working Mom Survival Guide – 11 Steps To Better Work-Life Balance
By SANDRA GORDON– In an ideal world, you’ve got a satisfying career with plenty of time and energy to play with your baby, help with homework, relax with your spouse, get to the gym and catch up with your friends. “Working moms handle work and childcare, life trips to the doctor.” src=”https://www.wideworldofwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/medical_07_22-300×200.jpg” alt=”Working moms handle […]
Continue reading …New Technology, New Jobs – Educating The Future Smart Grid Workforce
24/09/2012 Comments Off on New Technology, New Jobs – Educating The Future Smart Grid Workforce
By Karen Stewartson, Government Technology— Not only is Massoud Amin a scholar and educator, he’s also considered the “father of the smart grid.” This Q&A from Government Technology with University of Minnesota professor Massoud Amin discusses the kinds of jobs and skills that will be created by smart grid technology and what it will take […]
Continue reading …Report: New iPhone, Old Abuses: Have Working Conditions At Foxconn In China Improved?
22/09/2012 Comments Off on Report: New iPhone, Old Abuses: Have Working Conditions At Foxconn In China Improved?
A new report from a watchdog group in China suggests that working conditions at Foxconn, the company that makes Apple’s iPhone,have not improved. Reports of abuse, dangerous working conditions, forced unpaid labor and worker suicides have drawn attention to Foxconn In Sept. 2012, researchers from Hong Kong-based organization Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) […]
Continue reading …Overhauling Medicare – Is A Competitive Health Care Model All It’s Cracked Up To Be? The Answer Isn’t Clear
20/09/2012 Comments Off on Overhauling Medicare – Is A Competitive Health Care Model All It’s Cracked Up To Be? The Answer Isn’t Clear
By JULIE APPLEBY and MARILYN WERBER SERAFINI, KHN Staff Writers– Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says his proposal to overhaul Medicare would use market competition to tame costs in the government health program relied on by almost 50 million people. As models, he often cites the health program for federal employees – including members of Congress — and […]
Continue reading …Study Finds 99% Of American Workers Get Decade Of Pain, Top 1% Net All The Income Gain
19/09/2012 Comments Off on Study Finds 99% Of American Workers Get Decade Of Pain, Top 1% Net All The Income Gain
How well is the American economy providing acceptable growth in living standards and income for most households? Economic Policy Institute’s The State of Working America, 12th Edition looks broadly at available data and concludes that the answer is simply “not well at all.” This is not because the economy has failed to grow, on average. […]
Continue reading …A Temporary Trap? Full Time Work Elusive For Young Workers
18/09/2012 Comments Off on A Temporary Trap? Full Time Work Elusive For Young Workers
ILO News– Temporary work can be a great way for young people to gain work experience while still studying or travelling. But, as the youth jobs crisis shows no signs of abating, temporary jobs have become, in many cases, an option of last resort. The use of temporary contracts for young workers has nearly doubled […]
Continue reading …Domestic Workers No Longer A Domestic Issue In Philippines
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Domestic Workers No Longer A Domestic Issue In Philippines
ILO News– Dumaguete City is one of the Philippines’ top destinations for divers and nature lovers. For Aileen Capacite Bulfa, however, it was not the perfect summer getaway. The daughter of a poor farmer, she moved to Dumaguete to become a domestic worker when she was 13. She tried to attend the first year of […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill