Senators demand emergency session over looming 37 percent health benefit hike for NJ public workers
New Jersey Senate Republicans are demanding an emergency legislative session to address a proposed 37% spike in public employee health premiums, warning of widespread consequences for taxpayers, municipalities, and school budgets if…
Workers at UK’s biggest container port Felixstowe due to begin 8-day strike
LONDON (Reuters) -More than 1,900 workers at Britain’s biggest container port are due on Sunday to start eight days of strike action which their union and shipping companies warn could seriously affect…
UK sees biggest rise in foreign workers since COVID-19 pandemic
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Britain recorded its biggest rise in foreign workers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the year to June, driven overwhelmingly by workers from outside…
German manufacturers increasingly short of skilled workers – Ifo
BERLIN – German manufacturers of machinery and equipment are increasingly short of skilled workers, a constraint that adds to the shortages in materials and intermediate goods that they are also suffering, the…
Governor Murphy Repeals Antiquated COVID-19 Testing for Unvaccinated Teachers, Public Contractors, State Workers
TRENTON, NJ – As the COVID-19 pandemic winds down, the political science of COVID-19 is evolving. Today, Governor Phil Murphy rescinded his draconian order and discriminatory order to require unvaccinated public teachers…
Why Are So Many Amazon Workers in New Jersey Dying on the Job?
ROBBINSVILLE, NJ – New Jersey Congressman Donald Norcross called for The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) to investigate Amazon’s workplace safety after three workers died in the past month in the…
Queens Postal Workers Charged With Bribery Scheme And Theft Of Mail Linked To Covid-19 Benefits Fraud
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Daniel B. Brubaker, Inspector in Charge, New York Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), Matthew Modafferi,…
Cummins workers to get $2,785 cost-of-living payment – UK union Unite
LONDON – Britain’s Unite trade union has negotiated a 2,300 pounds ($2,785.30) cost-of-living payment that will cover 2,730 workers at U.S. truck engine maker Cummins, the union said on Thursday. “The payment…
Boeing defense workers to vote on revised contract offer
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON – Boeing defense workers in the St. Louis area on Wednesday are set to vote on the company’s revised contract offer after they canceled a strike that had…
Help wanted: New Zealand industries struggle to find workers
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON – New Zealand video game developer PikPok found a solution to prolonged difficulty in finding experienced workers: Colombia. The company, which is behind such mobile game apps as…
Food Delivery Workers Were Targeted by Knife-Wielding Suspects in New York City
NEW YORK, NY – Police in New York City said a series of armed robberies within the 114th Precinct in Astoria, Queens were committed by the same suspects. The two suspects have…
North Bergen DPW Workers Rescue Racoon Stuck in Sewer After Passing Storm
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – There was something in the sewers in North Bergen and it wasn’t a clown with a balloon. It was a raccoon who was apparently swept into the sewer…
Workers Of The World Are Uniting To Throttle Supply Chains
Workers Of The World Are Uniting To Throttle Supply Chains Max Keating on July 25, 2022 Years of strain on logistics and infrastructure workers caused by the COVID-19 pandemic amid an emboldening…
Contract workers striking at South Korea’s Daewoo shipyard reach agreement – Yonhap
SEOUL – Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has reached an agreement with striking contract workers, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday, in a dispute which the shipbuilder said had cost it more…
S.Korea to cut taxes for companies, workers and retail investors
By Jihoon Lee and Cynthia Kim SEOUL – South Korea on Thursday proposed a series of tax cuts for companies, workers and retail investors in stocks to support private-sector led economic growth…
South Korean Daewoo shipyard workers will end strike if damage compensation lawsuits are dropped – union official
SEOUL – Contract shipyard workers at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) are willing to end their strike and accept a wage increase offered by the company if lawsuits seeking compensation for…
Lyft lays off about 60 workers from rental division
(Reuters) – Lyft Inc said on Wednesday it was cutting about 60 jobs in its rental division as it tries to reorganize the business amid rising costs. With inflation in the United…
Owners And Operators Of Mid-State Japanese Restaurants Indicted In Conspiracies Related To Harboring Undocumented Workers
NASHVILLE – A nine-count federal indictment, unsealed today, charges four individuals with conspiracy to harbor undocumented workers while employing them to work at various mid-state restaurants, harboring undocumented workers, and conspiracy to…
Thailand needs 500,000 more migrant workers for recovery – Chamber of Commerce
BANGKOK – Thailand is short more than half a million migrant workers, the country’s Chamber of Commerce said on Tuesday, as Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy struggles with a slow post-pandemic recovery. Demand…
Twitter workers brace for more ‘circus’ after Elon Musk torpedoes deal
By Sheila Dang and Katie Paul (Reuters) – Twitter Inc employees expressed disbelief and exhaustion on Friday after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said he was terminating a deal to buy the social…
Gunman Arrested After Shooting Rifle at Sanitation Workers
GERMANTOWN, MD – A gunman who shot at Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission workers on Hawks Ridge Road on 4th July has been taken into custody, police report. Frederick Njihia was arrested, but…
Striking Paris airport workers call new walkout on July 8-10
PARIS – Striking Paris airport workers said on Saturday they would stage another walkout at the French capital’s main international hub from July 8-10 to press their pay demands, signalling further disruption…
Two St. Louis County men charged with robbing postal workers
ST. LOUIS – Two men from St. Louis County are facing federal charges accusing them of robbing two mail carriers at gunpoint on June 9. Roy Lee Jones, 19, and Xavier Sean…
Three Delaware Valley-Area Railroad Workers to Pay Over $75,000 to Resolve Allegations of False Unemployment Benefits Claims
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that three area railroad workers have agreed to pay over $75,000, collectively, to resolve claims of unemployment benefits fraud under the False Claims…
Some Norwegian oil workers to strike from July 5, hitting 4% of oil output
By Gwladys Fouche and Terje Solsvik OSLO -Seventy-four Norwegian offshore oil workers at Equinor’s Gudrun, Oseberg South and Oseberg East platforms will go on strike from July 5, the Lederne trade union…
Brazil Volkswagen workers approve agreement for $193 million investment
SAO PAULO – Volkswagen Group workers at its Taubate plant, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, approved on Wednesday an agreement allowing an investment of 1 billion reais ($192.97 million) for…
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