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Settlement at Journal de Québec < Settlements, Strikes and Lockouts, Quebec | CUPE

The longest strike or lockout at a french language newspaper in North America is over. Looks like the Québecor gets journalists to take video, photos, and photographers to write news. The journos get some staffing guarantees.

United Steelworkers and Largest UK Trade Union to Merge to Counter Abuses of Globalisation

Merger would help negotiations against multi-nationals, according to press report. This could also be "the first step towards a global union that could take in labour movements from the world's emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia", according to press report. Unite's 2 million members in UK and Ireland are employed by BP and Rolls Royce. USW has "more than one million members in the United States and Canada."

Mauritius Labour & Industrial Relations Ministry Notes Report Upholding Foreign ...

Foreign workers in Export Processing Zones in Mauritius, mostly China, India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, suffering "dismal working conditions" . Those trying to improve conditions in the past had been suffered intimidation and deportation, but national report advocates that foreign workers should enjoy the same rights as local workers.

Dock Workers Shut 29 West Coast Ports in Protest Against the Iraq War

At least 6,000 workers represented by San Francisco's International Longshore and Warehouse Union did not report for work for the day shift, effectively shutting down 29 West Coast ports. Their president, Bob McEllrath, issued a statement that read, "We're supporting the troops and telling politicians in Washington that it's time to end the war in Iraq."

Burger King VPputs self on grill | news-press.com | The News-Press

A senior Burger King VP is charged with posting harsh attacks against his critics of his company's labor policies under an assumed name.

Rights group hits China on treatment of migrants

The report cataloged a variety of deprivations suffered by the estimated 1 million to 2 million migrant workers employed on construction sites before the Summer Olympics in Beijing: a lack of safety equipment, crowded and unhygienic dormitories, no medical care, arbitrary fines by bosses, and unpaid wages.

Service Workers Union Backs Obama - The Caucus Blog

The S.E.I.U. s endorsement is especially coveted because the union has 1.9 million members and has a rank-and-file that is far more politically active than most other unions . Moreover, its political action committee is expected to collect more than $30 million this campaign, making it one of the biggest PACs in the nation.

Not The Daily Show, With Jason Ross

What do the writers of the Daily Show think of the ongoing writers' strike?

French Strikers Disrupt Rails for a Second Day

Strikers shut down French trains and buses, disrupted electricity production at nuclear plants and barricaded universities Wednesday, giving President Nicolas Sarkozy the toughest challenge yet to his ambitious plans for restructuring the country's huge social welfare programs.

Writers strike could pull plug on TV favorites

Your TV schedule may change drastically in early 2008 if the Writers Guild of America goes out on strike Nov. 1, as it has threatened to do over the past few months.

The myth of labor market deregulation

Profits around the world are on the increase but a Bank for International Settlements study finds it has nothing to do with labor market deregulation. Profits were higher in places where there was more labor market regulation.

BREAKING NEWS: Linda Chavez-Thompson Resigning - Working Life

The AFL-CIO's executive VP is stepping down for personal reasons.

Mine, steel workers back Edwards

Union backing should help push Edwards into the top tier with Hillary and Barack: John Edwards won the endorsement of the United Steelworkers and the United Mine Workers of America as more than 1,000 union members cheered the Democratic presidential candidate.

Migrants 'deceived and exploited' -BBC News

Companies deny underpayment of workers, but human trafficking experts say otherwise. "Migrant workers are being lured to Britain by deception and are forming a new exploited underclass" - a BBC investigation

Pacman Jones suspended season, Henry 8 games - NFL

Roger Goodell cracked down Tuesday on the player misconduct that s plagued his first seven months as NFL commissioner, suspending Tennessee s Adam Pacman Jones for the 2007 season and Cincinnati s Chris Henry for eight games.