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Oslo Declaration: Confidence In European Jobs And Growth Can Be Restored, ILO Says
12/04/2013 Comments Off on Oslo Declaration: Confidence In European Jobs And Growth Can Be Restored, ILO Says
Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General OSLO – In a move to restore confidence in jobs and growth in Europe, the 9th European Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the Oslo Declaration. The Declaration which strengthens the role of the ILO in Europe and Central Asia is set to help countries affected by the crisis to overcome […]
Continue reading …The Global Economy in 2013: “Fragile and Timid Recovery”
29/01/2013 Comments Off on The Global Economy in 2013: “Fragile and Timid Recovery”
The global economy faces fewer headwinds in 2013 compared with last year and will likely grow a modest 3.5%, participants at the 43rd World Economic Annual Meeting were told in Davos, Switzerland. But Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), described the recovery as “fragile and timid” because the Eurozone is prone to political […]
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 …Flat Taxes Are Big in the Former USSR: Have They Worked?
10/11/2011 Comments Off on Flat Taxes Are Big in the Former USSR: Have They Worked?
By Braden Goyette, ProPublica GOP presidential candidates Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have all introduced proposals for flat taxes, which aim to tax everyone at the same rate. The idea is to simplify the tax code, getting rid of loopholes and reducing entitlements and deductions. Gingrich and Perry have both promised that Americans […]
Continue reading …Assessing Unemployment in the Caucasus and Central Asia
03/11/2011 Comments Off on Assessing Unemployment in the Caucasus and Central Asia
According to the International Monetary Fund, assessing unemployment in the vast region of Caucasus and Central Asia is difficult because there is no reliable information. These are potential hot spots for social and political unrest. Creating job in this region could help keep the peace Masood Ahmed writes on iMFDirect blog: It is difficult to […]
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