In Britain too, public workers under fire
Chancellor George Osborne careened ahead with disastrous economic policies as he launched a vicious new attack on public-sector workers.
Union leaders to G20: World must focus recovery on workers, jobs
World leaders must pivot and focus the international economy - and its recovery - on getting workers into jobs, union leaders will tell international leaders meeting in Cannes, France.
Freeport strikers in Indonesia confront titanic forces
The mineworkers, belonging to the Confederation of All-Indonesian Workers Labor Union launched a weeklong strike in July. The union extended the strike set for a month to mid November.
Mexican labor officials meet with Congress about worker abuses
Workers in Mexico are facing repression from the Mexican government and corporations, and more and more working people in Mexico are being driven into poverty.
Mexico: New government attacks against electrical workers
The Mexican government under President Felipe Calderon, of the right wing National Action Party, has launched a new attack on the militant Mexican Electrical Workers Union.
British riots spurred by "greed is good" society
These attitudes were reproduced so grotesquely by the needy inadequates on TV shows such as The Apprentice.
Verizon workers face down corporate greed
Verizon Communications, which raked in $19.5 billion in profits, is demanding drastic givebacks from its 45,000 unionized workers on the East Coast.
Indonesian domestic worker is beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Jakarta stopped workers from traveling to Saudi Arabia after the beheading there of a 54-year-old Indonesian migrant worker June 17.
World’s domestic workers win historic victory
The new rules, which must be ratified by at least two countries to come into effect, calls for national governments to ensure that discrimination is ended and that child and forced labor be abolished outright.
50,000 Canadian postal workers locked out
The company cited $100 million in losses the strike has caused and the union's refusal to cooperate in dealing with declining mail volumes.
