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Carnival Corporation’s annual shareholders meeting  was overshadowed by concerns over CEO Arnold Donald’s role in the long running strike at Crown Holdings In Toronto. Confronted with...

To advise that a special Branch meeting has been arranged to enable candidates that have made it known that they are wishing to be the next RMT General Secretary, the candidates are as below, at this...

By Dr. Francisco Dominguez  The peace talks now underway in Venezuela to end the wave of violence that has the explicit aim of “The Ousting” of the elected government are a tremendous step forward...

by Marie CaburalApril 17, 2014, 4:16 pmAmazon.com continues to turn down any pay discussion with the trade union as the company argues that the wages and other benefits it offers are at the upper end of the common wage in the logistics industryThe employees of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) in...

Several pieces of construction equipment were spotted on Friday in İstanbul’s Taksim Square ahead of May 1 Labor Day. Officials declined to comment as to why the heavy machinery was in the square. (Photo: Cihan, Halil Özcan)April 18, 2014, Friday/ 18:57:23/ TODAY'S ZAMAN/...

The incoming National President of the Union, Max Hyde, gave her Presidential Address this morning. "I have spent my working life hoping to open up the life chances, the life-long chances, of...

I am proud to be representing Kent, East Sussex, Brighton and Hove and Medway at Annual Conference as their Executive Member for the last time- especially as Conference is at the heart of my area, in...

Higher education unions have secured a 2% pay offer for 2014/15 with a minimum rate equivalent to the living wage in negotiations with Universities and Colleges Employers Association. This follows a...

Pull him out first. Uproot his house from its foundations and make it stand on its side like a cot;     then lift him up     and place him     on...

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HARTFORD, Connecticut — More than 2,100 graduate assistants working for the University of Connecticut have been recognized as part of a new union and will soon begin negotiating a labor contract with the administration. The State Board of Labor Relations on Thursday determined that more than 50...

The National Union of Teachers held a one-day strike last monthContinue reading the main storyRelated StoriesThousands of schools shut by strikeWhy teachers are on strikeThe National Union of Teachers is to hear calls for strike action in England and Wales this summer term.The union's annual...

 Print This Page | Email to a Friend April 18, 2014—Garment workers continue to be fired and harassed at the Taratex BD Ltd. factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, according to the Bangladesh Independent Garment Workers Union Federation (BIGUF). More than 100 workers have been fired since...

A West Virginia resident picks up bottled water following a chemical spill in early January that left thousands of people without access to clean water. (Foo Conner / Flickr / Creative Commons)ACT LOCALLY » APRIL 17, 2014 A grassroots water delivery group filled in where government and...

http://www.iansunitesite.org.uk/2014/04/report-from-unite-special-executive.html?m=1 Having spent my evening between different leftwing fringe meetings at the Conference of the National Union of Teachers, my mind is on the state of our movement. Hence my interest in the link above, which reports...

A modern day Morality tale about the fate of wicked and evil Privateer Councillors (with a very catchy tune). Hat tip Barnet UNISON. 

Sister Citizen What happens when the black experience is relegated to background noise?Melissa Harris-Perry April 16, 2014   |    This article appeared in the May 5, 2014 edition of The Nation.Share(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)This spring, African-American...

Capitalism has lifted a few individuals, such as Donald Trump, to power while diminishing workers and undermining their confidence—but it doesn't have to be this way. (Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons)FEATURES » APRIL 17, 2014 Longtime organizer Jane McAlevey’s new book shows progressives that the...

At a London event organised by the global union federation IndustriALL union members and protestors from around the world demonstrated against giant mining and metals company Rio Tinto this week over...

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