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- Indonesia: Rio Tinto complicit in Grasberg mine accident (0 replies)
- Iran: Imprisoned Iranian Labor Activists on the Eve of the ILO Session (0 replies)
- 10-Year Strike at Chicago’s Congress Hotel Ends in Defeat, But Leaves a Legacy (0 replies)
- Global: Union Officials Arrested at FIFA Congress (0 replies)
- India: ILO, UNHRC to take up labour issues at Maruti (0 replies)
- Locomotive Builders Say, ‘Keep It Made in Erie!’ (0 replies)
- ITF makes formal complaint to Mitsui over Port of Vancouver lockout (0 replies)
- Indonesia: Freeport Indonesia union says won't return to work until probes into deadly tunnel collapse done (0 replies)
- Exxon Mobil Sued for Anti-Gay Hiring Practices (0 replies)
- Federal Worker Faces Deportation After Striking; Fox’s Workplace ‘Hunger Games‘ (0 replies)
- Adjunct Faculty, Now in The Majority, Organize Citywide (0 replies)
- What’s Next for the Chicago Teachers Union? (0 replies)
- Judge Frees Patriot Coal To Eliminate Retiree Benefits for 20,000 (0 replies)
- Qatar: Unions Re-Run the Vote campaign takes case of Qatar football slave to FIFA Congress (0 replies)
- Who Speaks for China’s Workers? (0 replies)
- USA: Act Now! Stand with Striking Wal-Mart Workers (0 replies)
- Foreign grain merchants continue lockouts; longshore workers stand strong (0 replies)
- ILWU support for Hong Kong strikers (0 replies)
- Honoring the “First Blood” shed for our union (0 replies)
- Walmart workers launch first-ever ‘prolonged strikes’ (0 replies)
- LA Port Police solidarity (0 replies)
- San Francisco Port celebration includes ILWU (0 replies)
- NBA decision may help save Seattle Longshore jobs (0 replies)
- Canada: Learning the right lessons from the Bangladeshi disaster (0 replies)
- Anger Rising in Bangladesh, Putting Big Brands Under Pressure (0 replies)
- Cablevision Calls Cops on Workers, Hires Scalia’s Son to Challenge NLRB’s Authority (0 replies)
- U.S. Labor News Roundup (0 replies)
- Frozen, Furloughed and Sequestered: Federal Workers Fed Up (0 replies)
- A 100-Year-Old Idea That Could Transform the Labor Movement (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Backlash: Workers Escalate Safety Demands (0 replies)
- Toxic Leak Cover-Ups; West, Texas Police Accused of Obstruction; Picketers Turn Back Ship (0 replies)
- Cambodia: 23 workers hurt as police clash with thousands of Nike garment workers (0 replies)
- Fiji: Unions warn Fijian elections will be a sham unless true democracy and human rights are restored (0 replies)
- Giants Fans Bring Their Own Lunches To Support Concessions Workers’ Strike (0 replies)
- Qatar: Unless Qatar improves its treatment of workers, the World Cup vote must be re-run (0 replies)
- Argentina: Former Ford executives charged for targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture during the 'dirty war' (0 replies)
- United Arab Emirates: Striking Dubai workers face mass deportation (0 replies)
- Mississippi Lavishes $1.3 Billion in Subsidies on Nissan as Workers Get the Shaft (0 replies)
- Palestine: Back the ITF international solidarity fund to support Palestinian drivers and their unions (0 replies)
- Food Chain Workers Double-Team Wendy’s (0 replies)
- Ballpark Workers Ask Giants Fans Not To Cross Picket Lines (0 replies)
- Uruguay: Unions challenge Mujica's Gov't with major strike (0 replies)
- Qatar: Unless Qatar improves its treatment of workers, the World Cup vote must be re-run, unions tell UEFA Congress (0 replies)
- Fannie and Freddie Duck the Waterless Hurricane (0 replies)
- Israel: Minister Bennett puns about exterminating port workers - calls them ants (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Global brands pull together on Bangladesh safety deal (0 replies)
- Swaziland: Gvt trying to crush Swazi unions - Amnesty (0 replies)
- USA: UE to GE: Keep good union jobs in Erie (0 replies)
- A Budget That Tightens Belts by Emptying Stomachs (0 replies)
- Top Democrats React to Low-Wage Federal Workers’ Strike (0 replies)
- The Axe Falls on 50 Chicago Public Schools (0 replies)
- Bolivia: Govt, Labour union resume talks on nationwide strike (0 replies)
- School's in Session for New York Troublemakers (0 replies)
- Europe: Amazon ethos challenged by unions in Europe (0 replies)
- Global: Investor warning: risk shoppers turned off by Gap’s stand on Bangladesh safety deal (0 replies)
- Fiji: Sugar mill workers feel soliders boots as Fiji Sugar hires army officers as security guards (0 replies)
- Farmworkers Fight Wendy’s, the ‘Last Holdout’ on Fair Food (0 replies)
- U.S. Labor News Roundup (0 replies)
- Hospital Workers Strike Today, Demand Safer Staffing, Pensions (0 replies)
- India: Protesting Maruti Suzuki workers seek solidarity (0 replies)
- Global: Public Outrage Over Factory Conditions Spured Bangladesh Labor Deal (0 replies)
- UPS: Largest Private-Sector Contract, Profitable Employer, Flat Beer (0 replies)
- Vietnam: Workers strike foreign firms seeking to sack pregnant workers (0 replies)
- Israel: Govt plans to use army to break any port strike (0 replies)
- Texas Explosion Could Have Been Worse; Unpaid Interns Denied in Court; Regulator Had Honeywell Stock (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Bangladesh Seamstress: 'I Had No Choice but to Go to Work' (0 replies)
- India: Demand for right to work legislation, social security coverage at 45th Session of Indian Labour Conference (0 replies)
- Longshoreman recovering after being struck by Marubeni-Columbia Grain customer’s semi truck at picket line (0 replies)
- Senate Standoff Threatens Labor Board Shutdown (0 replies)
- Global: Eradicating workplace discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Reflections on the campaign to sign the Bangladesh factory safety accord (0 replies)
- New Path to Citizenship Looks More Like an Obstacle Course (0 replies)
- Cambodia: At least 6 dead after factory collapses: union member (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: We made it! – Global Breakthrough as Retail Brands sign up to Bangladesh Factory Safety Deal (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Relatives of missing workers still gather (0 replies)
- Labor Department Hits the Road To Push Minimum Wage Hike (0 replies)
- Direct Action Gets the Goods in Greensboro, NC! (0 replies)
- Scab Grain Ship Accosted by Watery Picket (0 replies)
- Swaziland: Wonder Mkhonza released on bail, not free (0 replies)
- Greece: Amnesty: Emergency action to thwart teachers’ strike unnecessary (0 replies)
- A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers (0 replies)
- After Fighting Rahm Emanuel on Layoffs, Airport Janitors Demand New Union (0 replies)
- Meet One of the Victims in the Right-Wing War Against the NLRB (0 replies)
- Sharecropping on Wheels (0 replies)
- Asia: ITF president greets Asia/Pacific Conference (0 replies)
- Greece: Teachers 'civil mobilisation order' put into force at noon today (0 replies)
- Keep Koch Brothers Out of the Newspaper Business (0 replies)
- Qatar: Trade union chiefs refute criticisms by Qatar Air CEO (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Final Countdown for companies to sign Bangladesh Fire and Safety Accord before 15 May midnight deadline (0 replies)
- Global: Report ranks various countries retirement schemes for working people (0 replies)
- South Africa: Thousands down tools; Strikes follow fatal shooting of union leader due to testify over Marikana massacre (0 replies)
- Germany: IG Metall wins 5.6% pay deal for 3.7mill metal workers - averting strike (0 replies)
- Senator Calls Out White House for Logjam in Workplace Safety Rulemaking (0 replies)
- U.S. Labor News Roundup (0 replies)
- Greece: Workers walk off the job to protest ban on teachers' strike (0 replies)
- Germany: Metal workers enter huge warning strikes (0 replies)
- Discipline and Punish: The New Unemployment 'Reform' (0 replies)
- Paid Sick Leave, At Last? (0 replies)
- Gov’t Accounting Office report slams TWIC (0 replies)
- China: Daughter speaks out as women's rights, worker rights advocate detained (0 replies)
- Greece: Draconian anti-strike measure: Teachers face arrest, dismissal if they fail to turn up for work (0 replies)
- Two Wins for Bangladesh Garment Workers, But The Fight Isn’t Over (0 replies)
- Gov’t Will Pick Up Tab For West, Texas Damage; Amazon, Bikeshare in Hot Seat for Wage Theft (0 replies)
- Greece: Government threatens to arrest teachers over strike (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Garment workers gain the legal right to form unions after more than 1,100 die (0 replies)
- Iran: Lech Walesa of Iran Says He Left Country After Death Threats (0 replies)
- China: Promise from Foxconn on democratic union is broken (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Savar death toll reaches 1,121 (0 replies)
- As Death Toll in Bangladesh Collapse Climbs Past 1,000, Another Factory Fire Claims 8 Lives (0 replies)
- Global: The future of worker representation? (0 replies)
- Global: G8 leaders should support trade unions to fight global poverty (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: How much would it cost to double garment workers wages in Bangladesh? (0 replies)
- Labor Notes Interview with Hong Kong dock worker strike leader (0 replies)
- Charley Richardson, 1953-2013 (0 replies)
- Detroit Fast Food Workers Join Strike Wave (0 replies)
- Bakery Workers Speak Out after Immigration ‘Silent Raid’ in Oakland (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Doubling wages of Bangladeshi textile workers 'would add 2p to cost of a t-shirt' (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Factory collapse death toll soars past 1,000, bodies continue to be removed from rubble (0 replies)
- In Wake of West, Texas Explosion, Safety Advocates Recommend Harsher Fines (0 replies)
- Qatar: Will slaves build Qatar's World Cup? (0 replies)
- Republic Windows Sit-Downers Become Worker-Owners (0 replies)
- Time to Pay Us Back at University of Wisconsin-Madison (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Fire kills 8 as collapse death toll passes 930 (0 replies)
- China: Learning the hard way about trade union elections (0 replies)
- Global: The Global Labour Movement: An Introduction (0 replies)
- Canada: 'Whatever business wants': Harper government continues attack on workers (0 replies)
- Columbia College Chicago’s Adjunct Faculty Poised to Strike (0 replies)
- New CPS Board Member Vows Not To Rubber Stamp School Closings (0 replies)
- In Another Blow to NLRB, Court Says Bosses Don’t Have To Notify Workers of Rights (0 replies)
- Bolivia: Miners dynamite bridge during pension protest (0 replies)
- Fiji: Military Government Unnerved by Union Info Campaign (0 replies)
- AUDIO: Listen to Portland Troublemakers at School (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: Dock strike may be over but protestors still occupying plaza outside port boss' HQ (0 replies)
- USA: Pro-union protesters set up river picket at Port of Kalama (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Death toll hits 761 as payout begins for survivors (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Death Toll Approaches 800 (0 replies)
- ITF statement on end of Hong Kong Dockers Union strike (0 replies)
- Grain lockout expands to Port of Portland (0 replies)
- Statement from the Union of Hong Kong Dockers (UHKD) (0 replies)
- Japan-based Marubeni locks out Portland longshoremen at Columbia Grain (0 replies)
- Turkey: Government under fire for May Day violence (0 replies)
- Malawi: Cities brace for shopworkers strike: Female workers bemoan sexual harassment (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: Hong Kong port strike is over (0 replies)
- Obama Aims Budget Torpedo at Merchant Mariner Unions (0 replies)
- Sisters Camelot Union Debunks Employer Propaganda (0 replies)
- U.S. Labor News Roundup (0 replies)
- Hong Kong Dockers Claim Victory (0 replies)
- Egypt: Live ammo used to intimidate striking cement factory workers (0 replies)
- USA: AFL-CIO critical of Obama helping Wal-Mart to burnish fading brand (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Bangladesh garment factory death toll passes 700 (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: EU must push for fundamental rights in Bangladesh garment sector (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: Union of Hong Kong Dockers call an end to 40 day strike (0 replies)
- Charley Richardson, 1953-2013 (0 replies)
- Fiji: ‘It’s time to turn the heat up on the Fiji regime’ (0 replies)
- Australia: Export of chrysotile asbestos must be controlled under Rotterdam Convention (0 replies)
- Bahrain: Release Mahdi - support the Amnesty International campaign (0 replies)
- Cambodia: Union leader murdered nearly ten years ago - now honoured (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Factory collapse: Stench of decaying bodies is ‘overpowering’ (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Garment factory collapse toll passes 620 (0 replies)
- Fiji: No vacation from workers' rights. Take action now - Tell Fiji to respect workers' rights (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: Striking dockers reject latest offer (0 replies)
- Australia: The cheeky shearers who changed Australia forever (0 replies)
- Bahrain: Teachers’ leader must be freed now! (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Why I won’t be boycotting Bangladesh-produced clothing (0 replies)
- Cambodia: Nation Erects Statue of Slain Labor Organizer (0 replies)
- Global: Why we celebrate May Day (0 replies)
- SEIU Wins Again at Kaiser, But Militant Minority Grows (0 replies)
- Longshore Caucus convenes in San Francisco (0 replies)
- Hong Kong Dockers Strike (0 replies)
- Longshore workers & officers protest medical claim delays (0 replies)
- Local 13 pensioner receives replacements for WW II medals destroyed in fire (0 replies)
- May is medical, dental plan choice month (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Death toll in Bangladesh factory collapse passes 500 (0 replies)
- Germany: President urges labour rights 80 years after Nazi purge (0 replies)
- That Unemployment Form Might Violate Your Civil Rights (0 replies)
- Turkey: Breaking down the barricades (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Help the humanitarian relief effort in Savar factory collapse (0 replies)
- Russia: Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights for 2013 is awarded to Russian trade union leader Valentin Urusov. (0 replies)
- Canada: It was the government that blinked: Defiant jail guards have every right to declare victory (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: As Bangladesh Toll Hits 400, Calls Grow to Grant Workers the Same Protections as Labels They Make (0 replies)
- A Swank Sushi Joint Gets a May Day Scolding From Angry Workers (0 replies)
- Adidas Caves, Pays Garment Workers What They’re Owed (0 replies)
- Swaziland: Senior union leader illegally placed under house arrest in lead up to May Day (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: Asia’s Richest Man Reviled on Hong Kong’s Labor Day (0 replies)
- Bahrain: Amnesty renews call to free jailed teachers' union chief (0 replies)
- Cambodia: Release scapegoats for killing of trade union leader (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Workers vent May Day fury after disaster (0 replies)
- Greece: Unions hold 24 hour general strike against austerity (0 replies)
- Turkey: VIDEO: Workers face tear gas, water cannon on May Day protest (0 replies)
- Australia: Universities face May Day strikes - and more cuts (0 replies)
- Indonesia: Massive May Day rally shuts down central Jakarta (0 replies)
- Chile: One hundred thousand expected to march in Chilean capital (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: A song dedicated to the striking dock workers (0 replies)
- Latin America: Women Forge a Space for Themselves in Latin American Labour Movement (0 replies)
- Mining Giant Sued Over Silicosis Epidemic (0 replies)
- Fight for May Day’s Two Traditions (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: 15 May deadline set for Bangladesh safety plan (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Strong Unions needed - not outside pressure (0 replies)
- Qatar: Desert heat: World Cup hosts Qatar face scrutiny over 'slavery' accusations (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Rescue Efforts Halted at Collapsed Factory Building (0 replies)
- Chile: The month of discontent (0 replies)
- Iran: Government Trampling Workers’ Rights (0 replies)
- Edging toward International Solidarity (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: Interview with Hong Kong Dockworker (0 replies)
- Global: Building Workers’ Power: ITUC May Day statement 2013 (0 replies)
- New Twinkies Will Have a Missing Ingredient: Union Labor (0 replies)
- U.S. Labor News Roundup (0 replies)
- Terrorists? Arrest 'Em (Unless They're Walmart) (0 replies)
- Haiti: A Hard Day's Labor for $4.76: The Offshore Assembly Industry (0 replies)
- Somalia: Somalia: Journalist Living and Working On the Edge (0 replies)
- Global: Empowering workers by realizing trade union rights (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Made in Bangladesh - The Terror of Capitalism (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: Dockers' supporters continue protest at hotel owned by tycoon port operator (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Building toll rises to 348 amid six arrests (0 replies)
- Farmworkers Dig Into the New ‘Blue Card’ Plan (0 replies)
- Qatar: VIDEO: Watch Bhupendra's Story on International Workers Memorial Day (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Clothing Brands Attacked for Callous Indifference (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment workers die (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Make garment factories safe in Bangladesh (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Garment workers erupt into protest over deaths (0 replies)
- New York Didn’t Pull a Chicago, But Dissident Teachers Aren’t Giving Up (0 replies)
- Factory Collapse in Bangladesh Shows Cracks in the System (0 replies)
- Baltimoreans Press Casino for Real Local Benefits (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Western Firms Feel Pressure as Toll Rises in Bangladesh (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: In the Wake of a Deadly Fire, Garment Workers Push for Stronger Protections (0 replies)
- Global: Rio Tinto anti-union bias confirmed at AGM (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Up to 1,000 feared dead after Bangladesh factory collapse (0 replies)
- Global: IMF a threat to collective bargaining (0 replies)
- Obama’s West, Texas Memorial Speech: No Mention of Workplace Safety (0 replies)
- More Blood on the Tracks (0 replies)
- Why 170-Year-Old Logic Won’t Ensure Workplace Safety (0 replies)
- AT&T Coordinated Bargaining Disintegrates (0 replies)
- Texas Explosion: Gov’t Shared Info for Anti-Terrorism, But Not Workplace Safety (0 replies)
- Egypt: Trade unions planning a million-strong demonstration to mark May Day (0 replies)
- Qatar: Workers’ charters from Qatar Foundation and Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee meaningless without labour law reform (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Garment workers crushed to death in worst-ever industrial accident (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: 96 confirmed dead in factory building collapse (0 replies)
- Chicago’s Fast Food Workers: “We Can’t Survive on $8.25” (0 replies)
- Overworking Women: How Long Hours Lead to Gender-Segregated Jobs (0 replies)
- In Zero Sum Game, Rick Perry Courts Illinois Businesses (0 replies)
- Workers, Get on the Air! (0 replies)
- USA: School bus drivers report frightening conditions (0 replies)
- Global: Call for the release of trade unionist Wonder Mkhonza charged with sedition in Swaziland (0 replies)
- All Work, No Pay (0 replies)
- Hong Kong dockers: Li Ka-shing, do you know how bad the conditions of your workers are? (0 replies)
- Global: New report rips the mask off the CSR industry (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: VIDEO: In solidarity with HK dockers (0 replies)
- Egypt: Independent trade union founded after January 25 Revolution is to hold its first conference in Cairo on Wednesday (0 replies)
- Togo: Togo teachers boycott classes after deadly protests (0 replies)
- How Soon Will West, Texas Be Forgotten? (0 replies)
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