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Last Updated: Aug 20, 2019 - 11:44:25 AM |
Labour
Unions Keep Watch on Corporations
Steven Greenhouse, a former labor reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, builds a persuasive case that the inability of workers to engage in collective bargaining has markedly shifted power to corporations.
Aug 8, 2019 - 11:42:51 AM
Labour
Closures and pay cuts spark delivery driver protests in China
China’s delivery van drivers face huge pressures at the best of times but they are now being squeezed even further by the online platforms that dominate the transport and logistics sector. Many drivers cannot earn a living wage, and a lot have already quit the industry but still more are taking collective action.
Aug 7, 2019 - 12:45:38 PM
Labour
Kentucky Miners Are Camped Out on Railroad Tracks, Blocking a Coal Train, Demanding Their Stolen Wages
Miners and their families have occupied a railroad track, blocking a train that’s loaded up with coal that these workers dug out of the earth and never got paid for.
Aug 5, 2019 - 10:08:51 AM
Labour
General strike by Hong Kong workers against extradition law
Workers across multiple sectors are due to strike today in Hong Kong in support of the demands of protesters for the government to withdraw its law to allow extradition to the Chinese mainland. The general strike follows nearly two months of massive protests involving a significant proportion of the city’s population, amid fears that Beijing will use the law to seize and intimidate political dissidents and critics.
Aug 5, 2019 - 10:06:23 AM
Labour
NLRB Rolls Back Workers Right to Concerted Activity
The NLRB Confirms that Intermittent Strikes in Furtherance of the Same Goal are Unprotected
Aug 4, 2019 - 9:49:39 AM
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