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Cambodia: Unionists Still Subjected To Violence A Year After Strikers Killed
06/01/2015 Comments Off on Cambodia: Unionists Still Subjected To Violence A Year After Strikers Killed
A year after five people were shot dead by police and 40 more were severely injured during wage protests in Phnom Penh on 3 January 2014, unionists in Cambodia are still being subjected to violence. Last month, a locally elected president from IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the FTUWKC garment union, was brutally attacked with a […]
Continue reading …Expatriate Workers – The 50 Most Expensive Cities Worldwide
19/12/2014 Comments Off on Expatriate Workers – The 50 Most Expensive Cities Worldwide
Caracas, Venezuela, is simultaneously the world’s most expensive and the cheapest city for expatriate workers – depending on the exchange rate you use, according to the latest Cost of Living survey by ECA International. ECA International is a leading provider of knowledge, information and technology for the management and assignment of employees around the world. […]
Continue reading …50 Most Expensive Cities Worldwide For International Workers
19/12/2014 Comments Off on 50 Most Expensive Cities Worldwide For International Workers
COST OF LIVING: Top 50 most expensive cities worldwide for workers assigned to international jobs. MOST EXPENSIVE CITIES GLOBAL AND REGIONAL RANKINGS Country Location Rank 2014 Rank 2013 Venezuela Caracas 1 1 Angola Luanda 2 2 Norway Oslo 3 3 Norway Stavanger 4 5 Switzerland Zurich 5 6 Switzerland Geneva 6 7 Switzerland Bern 7 […]
Continue reading …Your Holiday Shopping Guide To Avoiding Slave Labor
18/12/2014 Comments Off on Your Holiday Shopping Guide To Avoiding Slave Labor
By Jill Richardson – Pope Francis got into the holiday spirit this year by calling on shoppers not to buy products made by modern-day slave labor. This is, of course, excellent advice. Odds are, most of us — whether Catholic or not — would love to take it. But how? Most products don’t come with tags specifying […]
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May Day 2013: The World’s Labor Day International Workers’ Day (also known as May Day) celebrates the international labor movement. It is the world’s Labor Day. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and celebrated unofficially in many other countries. While most of the world celebrates May Day as a day honoring labor and […]
Continue reading …Aviation Adapts To A Turbulent World Of Work
18/02/2013 Comments Off on Aviation Adapts To A Turbulent World Of Work
ILO News– Turning an airplane around requires the combined efforts of 12 distinct commercial aviation job functions: gate, ticketing, ramp, freight, operations and baggage transfer agents, pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, aircraft cleaners, caterers and fuellers. These teams may work for several companies, and they do not necessarily like each other. Often they don’t communicate very […]
Continue reading …ILO: Tougher Measures Needed To Curb Forced Labor
08/02/2013 Comments Off on ILO: Tougher Measures Needed To Curb Forced Labor
ILO News— A new ILO report highlights the need for tougher measures to combat forced labor, which claims 21 million victims worldwide. Men, women and children worldwide are coerced into jobs they can’t leave, trapped in debt bondage, trafficked for sexual exploitation and even born into slavery. Efforts to prevent, identify and prosecute cases of […]
Continue reading …World Economic Forum: Business Leaders Call For Social Goals In Corporate Decisions
31/01/2013 Comments Off on World Economic Forum: Business Leaders Call For Social Goals In Corporate Decisions
Business must include humanitarian social goals in its mission and incentives, or face eventual collapse in the next century. This was the conclusion of a panel of business and civil society leaders that took place Jan. 26, 2013, at the 43rd World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. “Businesses have more power and money […]
Continue reading …Global Jobs Crisis Far From Over, Warns ILO Chief
29/01/2013 Comments Off on Global Jobs Crisis Far From Over, Warns ILO Chief
ILO News– Stressing the urgent need to tackle the employment crisis, International Labour Organization Director-General, Guy Ryder, has warned that there can’t be any real growth without jobs. Asked about the jobs and growth conundrum – if there aren’t jobs, the economy can’t grow and if the economy can’t grow, it can’t create jobs – […]
Continue reading …Rise Of Middle Class Jobs In The Developing World Could Spur Growth
22/01/2013 Comments Off on Rise Of Middle Class Jobs In The Developing World Could Spur Growth
ILO News- The number of middle class workers in the developing world has risen sharply during the past decade, potentially creating a much-needed boost to future growth and consumption in these economies. New figures in the ILO’s Global Employment Trends 2013 show that 42% of workers in developing countries – nearly 1.1 billion workers – […]
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