Trade Unions

The Republican Crusade Against Regulation: A "Holy War" Against Workers and Consumers?

David Coates | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Business Regulation, Ron Paul, Republican Presidential Candidates, Right-to-Work Laws, Romney, Trade Unions, Santorum, Gingrich, Politics News
David Coates

In the standard trilogy of core commitments currently being made by Republican presidential candidates, the cutting of taxes and the pruning of government is invariably accompanied by the promise to deregulate business -- and indeed to re-regulate labor.

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'Welcome Christmas Present' For Agency Workers Over Equality

PA | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Equal Rights, UK News, Trade Unions, UK Politics, Employment, Employment Rights, Home News

Agency workers across the UK were set to receive a pay and conditions boost when new rights come into force today. The Agency Workers Directive was...

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Cyprus' Government Workers Protest Pay Freeze

AP | By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Fiscal Deficit, Eurozone, Video, Credit Rating Downgrade, Trade Unions, Salary Freeze, Cyprus Government, Airports, Public Sector, Austerity, Business News

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Thousands of Cyprus government workers held a three-hour strike Tuesday to protest a proposed two-year salary freeze they regard is...

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Defending Trade Unions as Labor Day Approaches

David Coates | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Germany, Wages, Social Contract, Unemployment, Labor Day, Trade Unions, Politics News
David Coates

In the right-wing litany, trade unions stand accused of causing unemployment by inflating wages and of blocking productivity growth and investment. The claims would be laughable were they not so dangerous.

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The Unanswered Questions Surrounding the U.S.-Colombia FTA

Kelly Nicholls | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Human Rights, Colombia Free Trade, Trade Unions, Free Trade, Colombia, Afro-Colombians, Indigenous, Small-Scale Farmers, Free Trade Colombia, Farc, World News
Kelly Nicholls

Bowing to pressure, the Obama administration is pushing the FTA forward with little consideration of its potential impacts on marginalized and impoverished sectors of Colombian society.

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Women at Work: Historic Photos From the Museum of the City of New York

Lacy Schutz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Women's Rights, Women, Women's History Month, Women's Labor Union, Trade Unions, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Labor Law, National Consumers League, Afl-Cio, Labor Unions, New York City, New York City History, New York News
Lacy Schutz

We celebrate Women's History Month with this selection of photographs, and observe the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a seminal event in women's labor history.

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Sarkozy's Unfinished Reform

Rabah Ghezali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Social Security, Trade Unions, Sarkozy, Strikes, Retirement, Pensions, Retirement Age, France Riots, World News
Rabah Ghezali

French public opinion and political culture is at least one ocean apart from those in America. But the French failure to meet the challenge of reform in 2010 teaches America that the longer it waits, the harder and more unfair reform will become.

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Where Miliband Meets Obama

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, David Miliband, Labour Party, Economic Crisis, Saul D Alinsky, Employment, Nick Clegg, Trade Unions, Obama, The Shift, Global Recession, Movement for Change, Shadow Foreign Minister, UK Politics, Ed Miliband, The Big Society, Left-Wing, David Cameron, World News
Indra Adnan

Obama and Miliband have this in common: despite their strong left-wing credentials, neither are wholly committed to the historical, ideological frameworks of their parties.

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Workers' Rights Around The World: Freedom House Report (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom House Report, Trade Unions, Slidepollajax, Employees' Rights, Labor Laws, Freedom House, Workers' Rights, Labor Unions, International Labor Laws, World News

The U.S. has a more restrictive stance towards workers' rights than Western Europe, Canada and even Israel, according to a new report. The report, r...

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