Tiffany's Looks To Africa As Diamond Industry Shifts
In a windowless factory in this African village, Tiffany is teaching more than 80 workers to transform raw diamonds into gems for Tiffany engagement r...
In a windowless factory in this African village, Tiffany is teaching more than 80 workers to transform raw diamonds into gems for Tiffany engagement r...
AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home
LOS ANGELES — A California nurses' union has threatened a one-day strike at 34 hospitals, accusing the providers of poor swine flu preparedness....
AP | IAN DEITCH | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the U.S. to take action over a newly revealed Iranian nuclear facility in a phone co...
Elana Levin | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
In case you needed any more convincing that we need the public option...
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
The claim that any human is able to remain unaffected by their background or have a purely objective view of any case is to claim a quality that belongs only to God: omniscience.
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 08.05.2009 | Entertainment
Sports labor unions, like the MLBPA, have achieved their goal of giving voice to the interests and concerns of those talented athletes who make a living as entertainers.
Michael Giltz | Posted 06.19.2009 | Entertainment
French workers are striking one of the nation's power suppliers and power is being cut throughout Cannes grid by grid.
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
It is not too late, though, Detroit. Who cares if the auto bailout is massively unpopular? Who cares if America likely does not need three big car companies?
Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
UPDATE: 2pm The unions who organized the nation-wide strike in France say 2.5 million workers have participated, BBC reports. French police have put ...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment
Broadcast audiences are aging and advertisers are falling away due to the recession and, to some extent, the Internet. Leno's stripping, but the networks themselves may be losing their shirts.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.18.2008 | Entertainment
Sarah Palin may not know what the Bush Doctrine is, but SAG's leadership seems to have forgotten what we might call the (Teddy) Roosevelt Doctrine: s...
New Yotk Times | Micheline Maynard | Posted 10.11.2008 | Business
The machinists' union walkout against the Boeing Company does not appear to fit the usual script for a modern-day labor showdown. In struggling indu...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 09.15.2008 | Entertainment
Note that Nov. 5 will be the one-year anniversary of the start of the writers strike. A great day for a deal, I suppose, or, more darkly, what better time to cripple the industry with another work stoppage?
Jonathan Handel | Posted 08.01.2008 | Entertainment
A slate called Unite for Strength has arisen to challenge the Membership First faction of the SAG Board. But the slate doesn't have any A-list stars on it, which reduces its chances of successfully wresting control of the Board.
Dolores Huerta | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
For decades, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange have fought for justice for California's workers. But now, these same sisters are refusing to show their own workers the same justice they once fought for.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.28.2008 | Entertainment
No deal yet between SAG and the studios. This video commentary explores why.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.09.2008 | Entertainment
Hollywood's quiet today. Still, with the studios' "final offer" on the table, the natural question is, what happens next -- and will there be a strike?
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment
I'm advised by a AMPTP spokesman that this offer tracks the AFTRA and DGA/WGA deals in terms of minimums, new media, and other provisions.
JB Powell | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home
The West Coast Dockworkers peace strike had a different edge, reminiscent of the days when the labor movement could and would affect this country's daily business to get its points across.
JB Powell | Posted 05.07.2008 | Home
One of the May Day strike organizers says Google "came to their senses" because people "from around the world started emailing them and protesting this egregious violation of free speech."
The Guardian | Gwladys Fouché | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media
Le Monde, France's newspaper of record, will not be on newsstands tomorrow for a second time this week after staff today voted to strike over proposal...
AP | VU TIEN HONG | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
HANOI, Vietnam — More than 20,000 Vietnamese workers have walked off the job at a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes shoes for Nike Inc., demandin...
AP | Michael Kuchwara | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
It was a second day of dark Broadway theaters and disappointed audiences as striking stagehands reaffirmed their commitment Sunday to remain off the j...
Los Angeles Times | Richard Verrier | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Halloween is looking scarier than ever for Hollywood. Studio executives and representatives of the Writers Guild of America abruptly ended talks Frid...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The United Auto Workers has launched a national strike against General Motors Corp., GM spokesman Dan Flores said Monday. It's the first nationwide st...
Wall Street Journal | By VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business