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In South Africa 75,000 Striking Miners Remain Defiant
30/09/2012 Comments Off on In South Africa 75,000 Striking Miners Remain Defiant
South African miners on a wildcat strike against the world’s top platinum producer defied management threats of firings on Friday 28 September 2012. Anglo American Platinum, Amplats, is the world’s leading platinum producer. Amplats is a division of global mining firm Anglo American. Amplats announced Thursday, 27 September 2012, that it began disciplinary actions and […]
Continue reading …Wisconsin Piggly Wigglys Pay $570,000 In Back Pay, Rehires Employees
30/09/2012 Comments Off on Wisconsin Piggly Wigglys Pay $570,000 In Back Pay, Rehires Employees
Piggly Wiggly Midwest, a Wisconsin supermarket chain, couldn’t wiggle out of the consequences of its piggish behavior with some of its unionized employees. Piggly Wiggly Midwest will pay more than $570,000 in back pay to 500 union employees at six Wisconsin stores as part of a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB). The […]
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 …Health Plan Open Enrollment: Rising Premiums, Dependent Coverage
27/09/2012 Comments Off on Health Plan Open Enrollment: Rising Premiums, Dependent Coverage
By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News– The fall health insurance open enrollment season is when many people consider changes to their health coverage. This year, premiums will rise, although perhaps not as much as last year, and dependent coverage may be noticeably more expensive than in the past. Comparing plans may be easier, though, thanks […]
Continue reading …MSHA: Kentucky Coal Mine Has 10th Safety Inspection, Served With Default Judgment
26/09/2012 Comments Off on MSHA: Kentucky Coal Mine Has 10th Safety Inspection, Served With Default Judgment
Federal mine safety inspectors conducted a surprise inspection on 8 August 2012 at D & C Mining Corp. in Harlan County, Ky. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) officials took control of the mine’s communication systems to prevent advance warning of the inspection. Inspectors issued five unwarrantable failure orders, one withdrawal order and 10 citations, […]
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 …Global Gloom About The World Economy, China, India & Emerging Markets Optimistic
21/09/2012 Comments Off on Global Gloom About The World Economy, China, India & Emerging Markets Optimistic
Pew Research Center report- The economic mood is exceedingly glum all around the world. A median of just 27% think their national economy is doing well, according to a survey in 21 countries by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project. Only in China (83%), Germany (73%), Brazil (65%) and Turkey (57%) do most people […]
Continue reading …EEOC: Calif. Hospital In Million-Dollar Settlement For Discrimination Against 70 Filipino-Americans
21/09/2012 Comments Off on EEOC: Calif. Hospital In Million-Dollar Settlement For Discrimination Against 70 Filipino-Americans
Targeted discrimination toward Filipino-American is costing a central California hospital nearly a million dollars and three years of federal supervision and anti-discrimination training, according to the EEOC. Delano Regional Medical Center (DRMC), an acute care hospital in California’s San Joaquin Valley, will pay $975,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) […]
Continue reading …Air Canada Hiring More Than 900 Employees, Launches Low-Cost Airline
21/09/2012 Comments Off on Air Canada Hiring More Than 900 Employees, Launches Low-Cost Airline
Air Canada announced 20 September 2012 that it is hiring more than 900 employees during the next 12 months. The hiring wave comes as Air Canada upgrades customer service call centers, prepares to start a low-cost airline and gets ready for the intense Canadian winter. In addition, 200 new jobs will be created for flight […]
Continue reading …Ford Adds 1,200 Jobs In Michigan, Part Of $16 Billion Investment Creating 12,000 U.S. Jobs
13/09/2012 Comments Off on Ford Adds 1,200 Jobs In Michigan, Part Of $16 Billion Investment Creating 12,000 U.S. Jobs
Ford will add 1,200 new hourly jobs and invest $555 million to equip a new state-of-the-art body and paint shop capable of producing multiple vehicles at its plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. Ford is taking over management the former AutoAlliance International plant and is upgrading the Flat Rock Assembly Plant to include a state-of-the-art, fully […]
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