labor unions

BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Wang Dongming was elected chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) at a plenary session of the ACFTU 16th Executive Committee, which opened on Thursday. Wang, who was also recently elected vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the 13th ...

Kozhikode: Various trade unions have called for a general strike in the state on April 2 in protest against the central government's notification allowing ... A resolution in this regard was moved by INTUC state president R Chandrasekharan at the trade union seminar organised on Thursday as part of the ...

As EU leaders and social partners meet for the annual Spring Tripartite Social Summit, the European Trade Union Confederation reiterates its call on the EU and Member ... Trade unions and employers – the social partners – can play a major role if they have greater influence, particularly at national level.

DeKALB — A labor union representing faculty and staff at NIU protested Monday at the MLK Commons. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 Local 1890 represents over 1,000 members of faculty and staff at NIU, including 600 operational staff members. The union has ...

Ultimately, labor unions would have us view Uber and other driverless vehicle experiments as final products, demonstrably and unacceptably risky. But these programs are very much a work in progress, years from reaching the point of common usage on public roads. Unless and until technology is capable ...

The Australian Council of Trade Unions' Secretary Sally McManus is calling for casual employees who have worked on a regular basis for six months to be able to push for permanent work. McManus also proposed further sweeping changes to workplace laws such as benefits for gig economy workers, ...

“We will continue to listen to and understand what they need from a trade union, providing support, representation, mediation and settlement. Working together we hope to develop a 'one voice' approach to the needs of self-employed, freelance workers, speaking out and campaigning on the issues that ...

A Sioux Falls labor group is hoping to use City Hall to send a message to some lawmakers in Pierre and Washington D.C. that racial and cultural intolerance are not tolerated in Sioux Falls city government. Sioux Falls City Councilor Pat Starr Tuesday night introduced a symbolic resolution reaffirming the ...

While I agree with much of John Harris's article (Adapt or die: a new breed of union can save the fossils of old, 19 March), I want to add that over the past 20 or so years at Unite there has been a growing concern that young people simply don't know what trade unions are. Consequently we are actively ...

But it surely says something that in living memory the only female trade union leader to have got close to being a presence in the wider culture was the late Brenda Dean, the general secretary of the print union Sogat and key voice in a seismic battle with Rupert Murdoch back in the mid-1980s. She died last ...

The 102nd birth anniversary of Biju Patnaik was celebrated with great pomp and show at Paradip Zero Point by the Eastern India Oil Refinery Workers' Union with many activities. In early morning, union members led by its president Santosh Kumar Pattnaik garlanded the statue of Bijubabu and distributed ...

On Feb. 26, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Janus v. AFSCME. The ruling in Janus could affect nearly five million union workers and has the potential to be one of the most profoundly anti-union judicial decisions in the past half-century. For more than 100 years, union labor has provided a path ...

Pinarayi Vijayan said that a meeting of trade union representatives will be convened to work towards putting an end to gawking wages and other unfair practices. Saying that trade unions are essentially meant for the welfare of workers, the CM criticised the bodies saying that it has now taken up the job of ...

Working families on Maui need a leg up, and they get the boost they need with the freedom to join in strong unions. Unions have always provided the best path to the middle class for working people. As a history teacher at Lahainaluna High School, I know that a strong union is what helps teachers to ...

Members of UUP marching across the Academic Mall on Thursday, March 1. The union has been without a fair contract since July of 2016. GARY GHAYRAT/THE STATESMAN. Several dozen members from Stony Brook University's chapters of the United University Professions (UUP) union joined on ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle talks with Ralph Affrunti, president of the Chicago and Cook County Building and Construction Trades Council, during a jobs expo for apprenticeship programs March, 2, 2018, at the Chicago Heights Park District Recreation Center. (Ted Slowik/Daily ...

AFCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) is a labor union representing public sector workers in collective bargaining negotiations covering wages, ... A few years ago, for example, there was a major disagreement between two labor unions representing service workers.

They gathered last night to hear the findings of “Working for the Mouse,” an Occidental College and Economic Roundtable study that finally let the rat out of the bag this week about Disney's poverty wages. The Coalition of Resort Labor Unions (CRLU) also organized the town hall to fire up a clarion call.

Ljubljana, 5 March - The KSS, the youngest trade union confederation, is the latest to join the strike wave in the public sector. ... Industrial action will include the KSS and trade unions of healthcare workers SPUKC, the trade union of accounting workers, the municipal traffic wardens' trade union and the SVS ...