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Postal strike brings mail to a halt
14 hours ago ago from Socialist Party Australia
More than 20,000 Australia Post workers walked off the job yesterday as part of a nationwide strike. Australia Post management said there was a significant backlog of post with about 4.1 million letters and parcels remaining undelivered. By Socialist Party reporters Melbourne The dispute is over pay and conditions with the workers demanding a new enterprise agreement that protects penalty shifts, rosters and take-home pay. The ...
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14 hours ago ago from Ensaios Imperfeitos
Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tai kwon do championship team this year. She's 14. For six years she's gone to practice instead of birthday parties, giving up the friendships most teenagers live for. Then two months ago disaster struck. Her mother Dolores lost her job. The money for classes was gone, and not just that. "I only bought clothes for her once a year, when my tax refund check came," Dolores ...
Related contentThe BA court order unfairly targets workers
43 minutes ago ago from Liberal Conspiracy
The High Court ruled today to stop the 12 day strike of BA workers from going ahead. The grounds for this decision were the irregularity of including in the ballot cabin crew members of the union who were set to leave BA anyway prior to the strike itself. However I think there are grounds for viewing the decision by Mrs Justice Laura Cox as a political one. Firstly, the inclusion of the 800 workers who are leaving (the number provided by ...
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1 hour, 3 minutes ago ago from Though Cowards Flinch
The High Court ruled today to stop the 12 day strike of BA workers from going ahead. The grounds for this decision were the irregularity of including in the ballot cabin crew members of the union who were set to leave BA anyway prior to the strike itself. However I think there are grounds for viewing the decision by Mrs Justice Laura Cox as a political one. Firstly, the inclusion of the 800 workers who are leaving (the number provided by ...
Related contentIndustrial action impacts high tech companies too
3 hours ago ago from Vendorprisey
Thinking of strikes, it is easy to imagine coal miners, railway workers and automobile assemblers with shop stewards quoting Trotsky, Gramsci and Marcuse, and brandishing a well worn copy of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. This is a naive and foolish stereotype. As this example from Yahoo! shows, industrial action is alive and well in the high tech industry. Valleywag reported on a strike at Yahoo in France. (watch the video ...
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Eliseo Medina: Immigration Reform is Critical Part of the Road to Recovery for America's Workers
1 hour, 52 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
Rep. Gutierrez's immigration bill, introduced this week, charts a new course for our country--a course that protects workers, respects families, and reflects our nation's interests and our better instincts. It upholds our values as a nation of immigrants and embraces the vitality and diversity that are the fabric of a vibrant and strong society. And it couldn't come soon enough for America's workers--both immigrant and native born. As wages ...
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15 hours ago ago from The New York Times
DEARBORN, Mich. Leaders of the United Automobile Workers on Wednesday selected Bob King, a vice president who has a long history with the Ford Motor Company , as the union's next leader. Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg News Bob King, 63, has been a union official since 1981. Related Times Topics: United Automobile Workers Mr. King, a journeyman electrician who has a law degree, would have the task of reasserting the ...
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