Lufthansa faces a major strike by ground crews and others starting Monday after the union said that its members voted overwhelmingly to support a mass walkout. Ver.di had sought a pay raise of 9.8 percent this year and rejected...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Workers at Verizon Communications Inc plan to protest in New York City on Saturday, ahead of the August 2 expiration of a labor contract covering 65,000 employees, union officials said on Friday. A union...
Attention News/Labour Editors SASKATOON, July 25 /CNW/ - United Steelworkers' (USW) Western Canada Director Stephen Hunt said Friday that second-quarter earning results released Thursday by Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan...
Posted to the web 25 July 2008 Operations at all five Shoprite outlets in the country were paralysed yesterday when more than 300 employees went on strike to pressure the South African supermarket chain to increase their...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Jos Branch, has urged the Federal Government to find a lasting solution to the strike by the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) dismissing the excuse that the Federal...
Adel van Niekerk, Abuja Disgruntled Nigerian teachers took to the streets in the capital, Abuja, today over salary disputes in a rare show of public protest in the West African country. The continued deadlock in salary...
As Matthew Weiner's hit AMC series Mad Men continues to collect awards and nominations, repeatedly being cited as one of the finest dramas on television, Weiner's rise to prominence has become a well-told success story. When...
For those of us who have flirted with a life in academia, Marc Bousquet's How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, January 2008) may help explain why so many of us dumped the love affair...
By: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. said Friday it posted a US$644.3 million second-quarter loss, blaming a nearly three-month long strike that crippled production as well as charges...
Thiruvananthapuram: The joint action council of trade unions of the plantation sector has called for a token strike in rubber, coffee, cardamom and tea plantations on August 13. P.K. Gopalan, chairman, and Lalaji Babu,...