| 03 Jan 12 | The Privatization of Public Services, State by State -- It seems there’s no public service or piece of property that private companies are not eyeing as potential revenue streams. While funding anti-government think tanks like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), companies like Corrections Corporation of America, Waste Management, Maximus, Intuit, Laidlaw, Northrup Grumman, Koch Companies, Macquarie Capital Advisers, Pinnacle West, and UnitedHealthcare are hoping to use government as their candy store. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Feb 12 | Bankrupt American Airlines to slash staff, costs -- American Airlines said Wednesday it needed to cut costs by 20 percent to stay afloat, as it met with union representatives to detail a plan for layoffs that reports said would total 13,000 workers. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 02 Feb 12 | Rail strike called off after thousands stranded for hours -- A wild-cat strike by a section of railway workers that left thousands of people stranded today evening was called off after an assurance from the Trnasport Minister Kumar Welgama to discuss their issue of salary anomalies. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Feb 12 | Iberia Pilots Announce 5 More Days of Strike -- Madrid, Feb 1 (Prensa Latina) Spanish Iberia airline pilots, who have staged seven days of strike in just over a month, announced on Tuesday another five days of strike against the creation of a low-cost carrier. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Feb 12 | Employers stuck in past and must catch up to values on equal pay for women -- Employers must move on from old-fashioned ideas about women’s work and make a genuine commitment to overcome the 18% gap between men and women’s pay. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Feb 12 | Belgian workers hold general strike to protest austerity measures on day of EU summit -- BRUSSELS — Belgian trade unions organizing a nationwide strike Monday called on leaders attending the European Union summit in Brussels to move away from austerity measures and start boosting growth and employment. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Feb 12 | State of emergency ends in Kazakh strike town -- President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Friday that the state of emergency would not be extended because the "situation had taken a normal course". ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jan 12 | Apple boycott brews over worker abuses -- Apple, the computer giant whose sleek products have become a mainstay of modern life, is dealing with a public relations disaster and the threat of calls for a boycott of iPhones and iPads. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jan 12 | Violence erupts in Yanam as workers go on the rampage -- In a major outbreak of industrial violence following the death of a trade union leader, a top official of a ceramic company in Yanam, a small enclave of Puducherry in Andhra Pradesh, was killed by workers at his residence here on Friday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jan 12 | Apple’s Profit Skyrockets, Workers Die at Its Factories -- Hours after Apple released its first quarter earnings, which showed a mind-blowing 44.7 percent profit, the New York Times published another in a series of articles illustrating some of the reasons behind Apple’s profit margin. Describing the conditions in which Chinese workers assemble iPhones, iPads and a panoply of Apple products, the report states: ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Jan 12 | Unions, employers reject wage cuts -- Employers and labor unions found some common ground during the first day of wage talks on Wednesday but it appears that neither side is willing to agree to Prime Minister Lucas Papademos’s suggestion that private sector workers’ salaries should be reduced. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Jan 12 | Unions must change quickly to survive, says secret report by CEP/CAW -- Unions must overhaul themselves dramatically — and fast — or face a slow death, says a secret report by the two groups contemplating the biggest merger in Canadian labour history. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Jan 12 | In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad -- The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Jan 12 | Workers strike for disabled manager -- About 900 workers at a footwear factory in Kampong Speu province returned to work yesterday after its managers agreed to reinstate a disabled administration chief who had been removed from his position and shifted to another place within the factory, union officials and employees said yesterday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Jan 12 | Kazakhstan: Opposition Activists Arrested -- (Berlin) – Kazakh national security agents in Almaty detained a leading opposition activist on January 23, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities say they are investigating at least two other opposition activists on criminal charges of “inciting social discord.” ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Jan 12 | Canadian Rio Tinto lockout nears one month -- On January 1, 2012, Rio Tinto’s aluminium subsidiary Alcan locked out 780 members of United Steelworkers at its smelter and refinery in Alma, Québec. The company refuses to negotiate limits on contract work. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Jan 12 | More Lockouts as Companies Battle Unions -- America’s unionized workers, buffeted by layoffs and stagnating wages, face another phenomenon that is increasingly throwing them on the defensive: lockouts. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Jan 12 | Fiat factories grind to halt in Italy strike action -- Italian auto giant Fiat's factories ground to a halt on Tuesday as a result of nationwide strike action launched by truck drivers against a new government tax that has increased fuel prices. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Jan 12 | ARC staff strike for wage hike -- NAGERCOIL: Over 2,000 employees of the Arasu Rubber Corporation (ARC) in the district observed a one-day strike demanding wage hike on Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jan 12 | Doctors vow to go on strike -- A countrywide strike of medical doctors is now looming after doctors vowed to lay down tools unless the government meets their demands.The demands include reinstating a total of 195 intern doctors of the Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) in Dar es Salaam. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jan 12 | We suspended strike, mass protests to avoid massacre —Owei Lakemfa -- Against the popular belief, the Acting General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Owei Lakemfa, in this exclusive interview with our Assistant Editor, Soji-Eze Fagbemi, revealed the main reasons behind the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and NLC’s suspension of the general strike and mass protests against the fuel subsidy removal, even when their demand for reversal to N65 per litre was not met. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jan 12 | RPT-Bulgarian coal miners call off strike -- SOFIA Jan 22 (Reuters) - Workers at Bulgaria's biggest coal mines on Sunday called off their strike over bonuses and better work conditions which lasted a week and forced the Balkan country to halt electricity exports to its neighbours to avoid power shortages. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jan 12 | One year on, the labor revolution is stalling -- On 30 January, only five days into the revolution, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions was born, the first such federation to be established since the union movement was monopolized by the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation in 1957. Since then, some 300 independent unions have been established nationwide, with a reported membership of nearly two million workers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Jan 12 | Workers ‘win’ after Kandal factory strike -- Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday and 6,000 more planned to return today after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said yesterday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Jan 12 | LEAD: Services across Greece paralysed due to 48-hour strike -- Athens - Greek trade unions scaled up their industrial action and protests on Tuesday, as the country's international lenders returned to Athens to decide whether current reforms were enough to secure a crucial bailout. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Jan 12 | Rights groups blast Nigeria union pressure -- LAGOS, Nigeria, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Evidence in a Nigerian court case against labor unions suggests authorities are trying to silence labor activists, Human Rights Watch said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Jan 12 | Bulgarian coal miners stage one-hour warning strike -- Miners at Bulgaria’s largest coal mining company, state-owned Maritza East Mines, staged a one-hour warning strike yesterday, demanding wage increases, the miners’ trade unions said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Jan 12 | Nigerian oil union threatens to shut down crude output -- Nigerian oil workers threatened on Wednesday to shut down output in Africa's top crude producer, deepening a national strike over a more than doubling of petrol prices. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Jan 12 | Worker’s self-immolation highlights need for improved labor standards -- The self-immolation Sunday of a Hyundai Motors union member named Shin has dealt another blow to already tense labor-management relations. After halting all operations at its Ulsan engine factory early yesterday afternoon, the union went into collective action tantamount to a strike, refusing overtime work in all project divisions at its Ulsan factory. Without an investigation into Shin’s actions and an adequate follow-up, the situation is likely to get worse. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Jan 12 | Hospital doctors ready to strike for better pay -- About 50,000 doctors will go on strike in 600 hospitals across Germany at the end of the month, after a vote which was overwhelmingly in favour of a walk-out. ( Laborstart ) |
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