| 29 Dec 10 | Spanish footballers threaten strike action on Sunday -- The President of the AFE, Spanish Footballers Association, Luis Rubiales, has said that he thinks they have the law on their side and that taking the matter to the National Court is now the only way out. He said the problem was one of the collective round and they were a union. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Dec 10 | Japan Airlines to Eliminate 170 More Jobs This Month -- Japan Airlines Corp., restructuring under bankruptcy protection, will eliminate 170 more jobs this month under a plan to slash the workforce by a third by March as it reduces operations. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Dec 10 | Bolivia defends sharp fuel increase after strikes -- LA PAZ — Bolivian President Evo Morales defended an 83-percent hike on gasoline prices, saying previous subsidies were a "drain on the economy" after bus drivers announced an open-ended strike. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Dec 10 | Bahamas shuns telecom strike -- According to reports, union leaders agreed not to call for action until their complaint is heard by an appeals court. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Dec 10 | Railway workers reject accusations over Constitución incidents and point to PO -- The head of the La Fraternidad railway workers union, Omar Maturana, rejected the accusations made by the leader of the Partido Obrero (Workers’ Party), Marcelo Ramal, who had said that "the unionized goons mounted the incidents at the Constitución train station." ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Dec 10 | Workers fear wage freeze next year -- Fewer workers expect a pay rise next year and a third predict their wages will be frozen, a new study has said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Dec 10 | Can the financial crisis be a good thing for poorer workers? -- The word for "crisis" in Chinese has the extra connotation of "opportunity", the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Global wage report researchers explain. With a fair degree of wilful optimism, the study suggests that the current economic and job crises might provide a good, probably unique, opportunity to develop a much more effective wage policy, which would contribute to an economy that's actually sustainable, both in industrialised and developing countries. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Dec 10 | ILO Report: Global Wages Stagnating -- Wages around the world have stagnated during the recession and any recovery must start by putting more money in workers’ pockets to fuel consumption, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said today in its annual Global Wage Report. ( http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/12/15/ilo-report-global-wages-stagnating/ ) |
| 16 Dec 10 | Deal near to raise minimum wage -- The minimum wage will rise by NIS 300 per month, to NIS 4,150, in one or two steps, after which a joint committee will review whether to raise it again or to freeze it, on the basis of the effect of the first hike on the economy, according to informal talks between Histadrut chairman Ofer Eini and employees, according to estimates based on the talks, which "Globes" has obtained. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Dec 10 | Hyundai Motor union votes against joining temporary workers' strike -- ULSAN, Dec. 14 (Yonhap) -- The regular workers' union of Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday that its members overwhelmingly voted against joining a strike by temporary workers at South Korea's largest automaker. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Dec 10 | Workers set to win lower fees and more super in retirement from Govt reforms -- Reform of Australia’s superannuation system will provide working Australians with more financial security in retirement through lower fees and simpler super funds. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 10 | Chilean Public Workers Strike Again -- SANTIAGO DE CHILE - Chilean workers from all 14 public workers trade unions mobilized again on Monday for higher wages and against mass layoffs. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 10 | EU workers brace for more strikes -- ngry workers from different countries across Europe have planned massive demonstrations to protest at their governments' austerity measures which they say will affect their wages. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 10 | Public Transport Strike Cripples Traffic In Greece -- (RTTNews) - Rail and road traffic in Greek cities were seriously affected for hours on Tuesday as transport workers' strike in protest against the government plans to reorganize transport companies entered the second day on Tuesday. ( http://www.rttnews.com/Content/MarketSensitiveNews.aspx?Id=1506032&SM=1 ) |
| 14 Dec 10 | General Federation of Labor threatens ports strike -- Sources in the shipping sector noted late last week that the General Federation of Labor in Israel (Histadrut) is threatening a strike at Israel's three main maritime gateways in a few days's time. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Dec 10 | Greece braced for a week of strike action -- Public transport in Greece has ground to a halt as workers in the debt laden country begin a week of industrial action in protest over government austerity measures. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Dec 10 | Unions call for end to private health insurance -- Germany's trade unions are calling for the abolition of private health insurance and for all workers – including public servants and the self-employed – to be gradually brought into a consolidated public system. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Dec 10 | General GSSE Strike on December 15th -- A general strike was announced for the 15th of December by Greece’s largest labor union, the GSSE Union. The unemployment rate rose to 12% in July. The government expects that the employment rate will worsen to 14.5% next year as the economy suffers its third consecutive year of recession. The strike is a sign of protest to usterity measures agreed under the bailout plan and looming future ahead. The strike’s purpose is to demand that the government protect jobs and give back pension benefits scrapped under an EU and IMF bailout plan. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Dec 10 | Temporary Workers at Hyundai Motor end Strike -- (Yonhap) -- The temporary workers' union at Hyundai Motor said it was ending its strike on Thursday as negotiations began with company management on changing the workers' status to regular employees. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Dec 10 | Hyundai Workers to End Strike -- SEOUL (Reuters) - Temporary workers at Hyundai Motor <005380.KS> on Thursday agreed to end a one-month sit-in, pushing up shares of the South Korean top automaker. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Dec 10 | 400,000 Chilean Public Employees Launch Strike -- SANTIAGO – Some 400,000 public employees in Chile launched an open-ended national strike to demand an 8.9 percent salary hike in 2011 and an end to the layoffs that have eliminated 7,000 jobs so far. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Dec 10 | Sick migrant workers eye home -- About 50 legal Cambodian migrant workers were set to return home from Thailand on Thursday after becoming ill while working at a refrigerated seafood packing factory in Songkla province. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Dec 10 | Trading away human rights in Colombia: "Hear for yourself" -- COLOMBIA/EUROPE: "Only the words and tone of voice have changed, the political and economic policies, the "Democratic Security" doctrine, the assassinations of unionists, opposition and population are the mere extension of the previous eight years of the Uribe Government, meaning this will probably continue for at least four years more ," warns Tarcisio Mora, CUT President, in the Hearing on Colombia, convened by Justice for Colombia, in Brussels on December 7. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Dec 10 | Greek Public Transport Workers Set to Strike Tomorrow to Protest Wage Cuts -- Public transport in Athens and train services across Greece will be paralyzed tomorrow as workers protest against cuts in wages and bonuses and reorganization of state-controlled companies. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Dec 10 | Argentine dockworkers strike in support of Paraguay colleagues -- Buenos Aires – A strike by Argentine dockworkers is paralyzing river-bound shipments to and from neighboring landlocked Paraguay in support of their Paraguayan colleagues' demand for a collective-bargaining agreement, union members told Efe on Tuesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Dec 10 | IKEA Is Violating Labour Rights in the United States -- Trade union representatives participating in statutory meetings of the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) on 7 December 2010 will also gather outside the new IKEA store in Vernier, Geneva. ( http://www.bwint.org/default.asp?Index=3180&Language=EN ) |
| 07 Dec 10 | UAW rallies for Hyundai strikers in Korea -- About 150 UAW officials and workers protested this afternoon outside the Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center in Superior Township and told the tech center’s manager that Hyundai officials should respond to the demands of striking temporary subcontract workers in South Korea. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Dec 10 | Volkswagen May Reject Demand for 6% Pay Increase; Plans to Add 50,000 Jobs -- Volkswagen AG may oppose demands by the German IG Metall labor union for 6 percent more pay for the carmaker’s workers in western Germany as VW plans to add thousands of jobs in its home-market and abroad. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Dec 10 | Now Is the Time for Serious Negotiation -- 6 December 2010: The ITUC is increasingly concerned at the lack of progress in achieving a just and peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine peace process. In particular, Israel’s refusal to extend the moratorium on building settlements is proving to be a major barrier to advancing the process. All governments need to step up support for a lasting peace and for development of a prosperous Palestinian state. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Dec 10 | Today is the 17th day of Hyundai Motor's irregular workers (sit-in)strike! -- Hyundai Motor’s contract workers have continued striking and protesting for 16 days, but they are gradually losing ground, cornered by the hostile government, the rock-ribbed Hyundai Motor and the permanent employees’ union that still hasn’t decided on its full support for their non-regular counterparts. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Dec 10 | Serie A players’ union calls for strike -- The union, which announced a strike for September before postponing the action to allow for more talks, is angry at league demands that unwanted players train away from the first team squads or accept a transfer even when under contract. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Dec 10 | MIDDLE EAST: Focus on domestic workers’ rights -- DAMASCUS, 30 November 2010 (IRIN) - The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) is encouraging the drafting of labour legislation to provide foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in the Middle East with legal protection. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Dec 10 | Never-ending cycle: The human cost of slave labour -- Terror and relief ran through Phal Chantha’s mind as he climbed ashore on a small beach in Malaysia, some 1,200 kilometres across the South China Sea from his home in Cambodia. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Dec 10 | Big Portugal union counts out strife for now-INTERVIEW -- PORTUGAL-CRISIS/UNION * Not planning more strife, expects dialogue * Hopes to avoid labour law changes on firing * No position yet on possible bailout ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Dec 10 | Ethiopian Affiliate reaches out to hundreds of construction workers via HIV/AIDS Workplace Activities. -- Equipped with baseline information collected from the questionnaires administered at workplaces, Ethiopian Industrial Federation of Construction, Wood Union (EIFCWU), disseminated information on HIV/AIDs prevention and control to hundreds of construction workers at various workplaces. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Dec 10 | Workers Seek ‘Just Transition’ to Green Economy in Cancun Climate Talks -- AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council Director Bob Baugh is a member of a global union delegation led by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) attending the new round of United Nations climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico. This is the first of a series of blogs on the talks. ( Laborstart ) |
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