labor unions

Workers at the Louvre Museum voted Monday to strike over working conditions and other complaints, dealing another blow to the Paris landmark and home of the “Mona Lisa” after an embarrassing jewelry heist in October.

Three labor unions are fighting President Donald Trump, claiming his administration violated the rights of legal visa holders by monitoring their social media accounts.

Thousands of London Underground staff on Sunday began a series of strikes over pay and conditions that threaten to shut down the subway system used by millions of people a day.

The American Federation of Government Employees, the parent labor organization representing thousands of Border Patrol agents and other federal law enforcement officers, joined with NoKings.org to promote anti-Trump protests nationwide. Protesters at the events carried signs attacking ICE, the Border Patrol, and law enforcement in general.

Flight cancellations at Hamburg Airport after a surprise strike by workers affected more than 40,000 passengers on Sunday, a day before a planned wider protest across Germany amid new contract negotiations.

Canada Post announced on Wednesday that children will not receive letters from Santa Claus this year as a result of a month-long union strike that disrupted the postal office’s operations and its decades-long Santa letter program.

Volkswagen workers launched rolling two-hour strikes Monday at nine plants across Germany to underscore their resistance to pay cuts and factory closures the company says are necessary to cope with a slack European auto market.

A second federal judge has ruled against a federal rule, put forward by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Labor, that gives collective bargaining rights to foreign farm workers while American farm workers are excluded.

Teamsters president Sean O’Brien told comedian Theo Von that the Democrats “have f**ked us over for the last 40 years,” adding, “We’re standing up as a union — saying, ‘What the f**k have you done for us?'”

Two years ago, Vice President Kamala Harris promised to help “lead the most pro-union administration in America’s history.”

A married Iowa couple were laid off by John Deere on the same day as part of a massive wave of personnel downsizing after sales at the agricultural machinery company took a plummet.

Leaders of labor unions are reportedly backing away from President Joe Biden, suggesting they want another Democrat candidate in his place.

General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Sean O’Brien has accepted Donald Trump’s invitation to address the RNC.

Federal justice authorities in Argentina ordered 27 raids on Monday against leaders of leftist piqueteros (“picketers”) organizations following hundreds of complaints by local citizens of alleged extortion and blackmail.

Turkish police detained dozens of protesters in Istanbul on Wednesday when they ignored a ban on Communist “May Day” demonstrations.

Chinese state media previewed an article to be published on Wednesday by genocidal dictator Xi Jinping in which he demanded complete loyalty from the nation’s labor unions and asserted the “importance of adhering to the overall leadership of the Party over trade unions.”

A New York City construction worker delivered a harsh message to President Joe Biden on Thursday morning in Manhattan.

The Teamsters Union’s political action committee contributed $5,000 to Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) reelection campaign.

China’s effort to jump-start its economy by exporting a vast quantity of cheap manufactured products is running into unexpected resistance from the United States, European Union, and even developing nations such as Brazil and Mexico. All of these nations are concerned with market disruptions caused by a tidal wave of Chinese imports, as happened during the “China Shock” two decades ago.

About 10,000 trainee doctors in South Korea entered their second month of a nationwide strike in late March, forcing hospitals into “emergency mode” and shutting down critical sectors, including emergency wards, Korean news agencies confirmed Wednesday and Thursday.

A labor union in Germany has called on ground staff for Lufthansa to walk off the job at seven airports on Tuesday.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris was closed to visitors and tourists on Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R), along with 23 attorneys general, is demanding that President Joe Biden drop a proposed federal rule that he says will give collective bargaining rights to foreign farm workers while American farm workers are excluded.

The economic challenge facing the U.S. today is not that auto workers are demand to be paid too much. It’s that inflation has destroyed too much of what they are paid. 

Republicans tonight have the chance to make the GOP great again on labor issues. The question is whether they are smart enough to take up that chance.

President Joe Biden met with fellow socialist chief executive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil on Wednesday to announce a joint initiative on “workers’ rights” intended to promote the restructuring of their economies to fight alleged climate change.

The Walt Disney Company is facing another setback after some of its visual effects artists voted this week to unionize in a move that is bound to cause ripple effects through a sector that is notorious for its sweatshop-like conditions.

State Employees’ Association/SEIU Local 1984 released a statement on Tuesday saying the labor union will not automatically endorse President Joe Biden for reelection and calling for a “competitive” 2024 Democrat presidential primary.

German government officials and labour unions reached a pay deal for more than 2.5 million public-sector workers, ending a lengthy dispute.

The French government was thrown into chaos after it used a constitutional loophole to pass a rise to the retirement age without a vote.

PARIS (AP) – Roads blocked, oil refineries disrupted, planes grounded and trains halted – unions are threatening to shut down France’s economy this week in what they hope is their toughest riposte yet to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age.

More than 7,000 unionized nurses walked off the job Monday at two of New York City’s largest hospitals after negotiations stalled over the weekend. 

Pope Francis laid out his economic vision Monday, insisting that there are no “free workers” without labor unions.

Britain’s Border Force will abandon their posts at airports in strike during the Christmas holiday period, the PCS union announced this week.

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), which represents the interest of unionized workers in a variety of fields in South Korea, is planning a nationwide strike for Tuesday in solidarity with an ongoing truckers’ strike the ruling conservative political party has denounced as unpatriotic.

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to pass a resolution imposing a contract on freight rail workers but rejected a concurrent measure that would give workers seven guaranteed paid sick days. H.J. Resolution 100 passed the Senate by a margin of