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By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD — Republicans’ support for anti-union legislation is at odds with their professed commitments to helping the middle class. The Republican-dominated Senate in Wisconsin passed a bill this week to weaken the state’s private-sector unions. Similar to “right-to-work” laws in 24 other states, the bill would prevent unions from requiring dues or other […]
Continue reading …A breakthrough has been made at the International Labour Organization following two years during which employers at the International Labour Organization brought the UN body’s global supervisory system to a standstill, in an attempt to eliminate decades of ILO jurisprudence supporting the right to strike. Union and employer representatives have now reached an understanding at […]
Continue reading …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 …The California union election do-over in is over. Kaiser health care employees in California have voted in favor of retaining their current bargaining representative, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU-UHW), rather than switching to rival National Union of Healthcare Workers-California Nurses Association, AFL-CIO (NUHW-CNA). The results were: SEIU-UHW, 18,844 votes; NUHW-CNA, 13,101 votes; neither, 334 votes; with 520 […]
Continue reading …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 …ILO News– One year after Myanmar passed its Labor Organization Law, delegates from some 500 labor organizations gathered in an unprecedented conference to hone their skills in labor organization, collective bargaining and occupational health and safety, among other areas of crucial importance to the country’s workers. “This is a powerful expression of freedom of association […]
Continue reading …By DAVID SCHULTZ, KHN— How many nurses does it take to run a hospital? Legislatures in at least seven states and the District of Columbia are trying to answer that question as they debate bills that would require hospitals to have a minimum number of nurses on staff at all times. So far, only one state […]
Continue reading …By PETER RUGH, Waging Nonviolence— Tianna Smalls had planned on working Thursday, April 4, 2013, but her colleagues convinced her otherwise. “‘You’re either with us, or you’re for Wendy’s,’” Smalls remembers her co-workers telling her. Her mother also weighed in Thursday morning as Smalls was heading to work at the franchise in downtown Brooklyn. “She said, […]
Continue reading …Minimum wage laws prohibit employers from hiring employees or workers for less than a given hourly, daily or monthly minimum wage. More than 90% of all countries have some kind of minimum wage legislation. Although minimum wage laws are in effect in many jurisdictions, differences of opinion exist about the benefits and drawbacks of a […]
Continue reading …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 […]
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