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
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impose a contract on rail workers in an effort to prevent a December 9 strike date that poses substantial economic ramifications.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) blasted President Joe Biden for calling on Congress to impose a contract between rail unions and rail companies, which union members ultimately rejected, to avoid a December 9 strike date.
Republican J.D. Vance, running against Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) for Ohio’s open United States Senate seat, is pledging to help America’s union workers take back power from their Democrat union bosses.
Mayhem broke out at cost of living protests in Paris on Tuesday, with rioters clashing with police and smashing windows.
President Joe Biden has given Amazon, for which billionaire Jeff Bezos serves as chairman of the board, a $10 billion federal contract despite having pledged to American union workers not to reward corporations accused of union-busting tactics.
In a classic David vs. Goliath tale, the Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, beat union-busting billionaire Jeff Bezos to form a union. Here are five things to watch as this battle royale over unionization unfolds.
Google has reportedly settled with six current and former employees who attempted to organize unionization efforts within the Masters of the Universe. The NLRB complaint alleged that Google illegally dismissed, disciplined, and even surveilled employees who were actively attempting to organize a tech worker’s union.
The California Democrat party decided on Sunday it won’t accept campaign contributions from some fossil fuel entities and some police.
Recommendations designed to make it easier for federal workers and contractors to unionize without hinderance will be delivered Monday by an administration labor task force led by Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to recently released documents from the National Labor Releations Board (NLRB), tech giant Google ran a secret anti-union campaign called “Project Vivian,” between 2018 and 2020 to convince employees that “unions suck.”o
Democrat National Committee (DNC) employees voted to unionize after getting over two-thirds of eligible staff members to sign union cards, making the vote official on Tuesday, according to Business Insider.
House and Senate Democrats who have claimed to be champions for labor unions are silent as the Kellogg Company, whose largest shareholder is the left-wing W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is set to replace about 1,400 American union workers who have been on strike since October.
Starbucks employees at a store in Buffalo made a historic move this week when they voted 19 to eight in favor of unionizing.
Shares of woke coroporate cereal maker Kellogg have fallen more than 15 percent since blacklisting Breitbart five years ago. The broader stock market is up 106 percent over the period.
Twenty-three labor unions filed a complaint against Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.
Megan Barth, editor-in-chief of the Nevada Globe, said Republicans have a “wide-open shot” in Nevada given the “far-left” hijacking of the state.
An 11th-hour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the U.S.
Left-wing groups are calling for a consumer boycott of Kellogg’s cereals in solidarity with 1,400 workers who have gone on strike to protest what they say are grueling working conditions, and threats by management to move their jobs to Mexico.
Even if Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is still the main power broker for House Democrats, she is not without noteworthy challenge from the leader of the House Progressive Caucus and one of the most far-left lawmakers in Congress, Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
Twitter briefly removed Danny DeVito’s blue-check verification after the Hollywood star tweeted his solidarity with a labor strike at Nabisco, according to multiple reports.
The American Postal Workers Union (APWU), which represents more than 200,000 United States Postal Service employees and retirees and nearly 2,000 private-sector mail workers, on Wednesday expressed concern over the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal workers.
Despite almost two million Californians winning the petition drive to force Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom to compete in an expected fall recall election, he is raising more money than any of his challengers. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Newsom raised $16.5
Media reports are lauding lawmakers and Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom for a new law that will allow housing developments to bypass some environmental regulations that have resulted in long delays. But the overarching impact on housing in the Golden State is that 15 percent of new housing must be low-income and be built by union-pledged workers.
Democrats in the Connecticut Senate voted to approve a bill that would give public-sector unions easier access to new or existing employees and their personal information.
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal is facing GOP criticism over divergent line items unrelated to classical infrastructure investment.
Labor unions have historically been the bulwark against socialism and communism, and history may repeat itself if Republicans seize the moment.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order this week revoking former President Donald Trump’s order providing federal funds to apprenticeship programs created by industries, calling for more government-controlled alternatives.
A dangerous leader with Los Zetas cartel is reportedly protecting a union tied to the party founded by Mexico’ President. The struggle comes as two labor unions engaged in rioting, shootings, and threats during a fight for a construction contract in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon.
SCOTUS agreed to hear a case from CA growers that claims state law allowing labor union to contact workers violates private property rights.
