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…
Whole Foods workers lose appeal over ‘Black Lives Matter’ masks
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court said Whole Foods employees cannot sue the upscale grocery chain or its parent Amazon.com Inc after being sent home without pay or disciplined…
Germany seeks foreign workers for airports amid summer travel crunch
BERLIN -Germany wants to bring in foreign workers as quickly as possible to relieve airports overwhelmed by staff shortages during the busy summer season, an Interior Ministry spokesperson said. The temporary workers,…
Germany to deploy temporary foreign workers to ease staff shortage at German airports – Bild
BERLIN – Germany will allow the entry of foreign workers to fill staff shortages at the German airports as a temporary solution, Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday, citing the interior, transport…
UK body to recommend 4-5% pay rise for 1.5 million health workers – Guardian
LONDON – British public-sector health workers should receive an annual pay rise of 4-5% this year, a government advisory body plans to recommend, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper on…
Chile’s Codelco and workers reach agreement to end strike
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO -Union leaders at Chile’s state-owned mining firm Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, reached an agreement with the company on Thursday to end a national strike…
Mexican telecom firm Telmex and union reach contract agreement to raise salary 4.5% for some workers: govt
MEXICO CITY – Telmex, the Mexican telecommunications firm controlled by the family of tycoon Carlos Slim, reached a contract agreement with its union to raise salaries up to 4.5% for some workers,…
Stellantis workers block Belgrade highway over layoff plans
(Fixes typo in paragraph 2 and dropped word ‘the’ in last paragraph) BELGRADE – Workers from automaker Stellantis’ Serbian plant blocked the main highway in the capital Belgrade on Wednesday to protest…
Brexit will cost UK workers 470 pounds a year, study predicts
By David Milliken LONDON – Britain is becoming a more closed economy due to Brexit, with damaging long-term implications for productivity and wages which will leave the average worker 470 pounds ($577)…
Tesla under pressure to boost wages to attract workers to German plant
BERLIN – Electric carmaker Tesla is having to raise wages to attract employees to its new manufacturing plant outside Berlin, a top German union said, warning of a looming pay dispute among…
UK minister warns public sector workers not to expect above-inflation pay rises
LONDON – The British government needs to be sensible about public sector pay, junior treasury minister Simon Clarke said on Monday, warning that above-inflation rises would only worsen general inflation that is…
Apple workers at Maryland store vote to unionize, a first for the U.S.
(Reuters) – Apple Inc workers in Maryland voted on Saturday to join a union, becoming the first retail employees of the tech giant to unionize in the United States. More than 100…
Eight Philadelphia Public Workers Charged for Filing False Unemployment Claims During COVID
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Eight Philadelphia public employees conspired to steal over $300,000 in unemployment benefits according to Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Shapiro announced the charges against eight employees of the City of…
White House kicks off push to train more broadband, construction and EV workers
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON – The White House will launch a summer-long initiative on Friday to encourage labor unions and industry to work together to train more workers for good jobs in…
Mexico workers end strike at ArcelorMittal plant, reach agreement – union
MEXICO CITY – Workers at a Mexican plant of ArcelorMittal have called off a brief strike after reaching an agreement with the world’s largest steelmaker over profit-sharing, the mining union said on…
Workers at Chile’s Codelco say strike imminent if investment demands not met
SANTIAGO – Workers at Chile’s state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, will go on strike if they do not receive a favorable answer from the company’s board of directors Friday, the…
Workers at Canadian National Railway threaten to strike
(Reuters) – Canadian National Railway Co said on Wednesday a union representing about 750 workers in the country could potentially go on a strike on June 18. The company said that it…
Chilean Codelco workers keep strike threat due to lack of smelter investment
SANTIAGO – Workers at Chilean state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, maintained the threat of a strike on Wednesday if a solution was not reached on investments required by a troubled…
Bombardier shares hit amid Montreal workers’ strike, market selloff
MONTREAL – Bombardier Inc shares fell as much as 17.4% on Monday as workers on a key business jet program walked off the job for a day and amid a broader selloff…
Company, owners admit bringing more than 100 unauthorized migrant workers to Missouri
ST. LOUIS – A father and son from Florida and their labor contracting company have pleaded guilty to federal charges and admitted bringing more than 100 unauthorized migrant workers to Missouri in…
Todd D. Wachtel Elected to NJSBA Workers’ Compensation Executive Committee
Todd D. Wachtel, a New Jersey workers’ compensation attorney and Partner at Levinson Axelrod, P.A., was recently installed as a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Executive Committee.…
UK’s Sainsbury’s faces investor vote on workers pay amid cost of living crisis
By James Davey LONDON – Shareholders in Sainsbury’s will get to vote on a resolution at next month’s annual meeting calling for Britain’s second biggest supermarket group to commit to paying the…
U.S. says GM Mexican plant workers’ vote shows bargaining benefits
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON – U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai said on Friday the vote by General Motors workers at a pickup truck plant in Mexico to approve a new contract…
Victoria’s Secret agrees to finance $8.3 million settlement for laid-off Thai workers
BANGKOK – Thai workers who were sacked last year from a factory supplying global lingerie brands including Victoria’s Secret will receive $8.3 million, in what labour activists say is the biggest settlement…
Office Workers Now Have the Power to Shape Their Environment – Employees Take Back Control with PriWatt™ Smart Glass, from Smart Glass Technologies
MIAMI, May 25, 2022 — Leading providers of Switchable Glass and Film, SmartGlass Technologies™ (SGT) recently explored how companies can help workers feel better about returning to the office despite two years…
Stellantis offers some Serbian workers two years abroad or redundancy
BELGRADE – Stellantis has offered some workers at its plant in Serbia a choice between moving abroad for two years to re-train in electric car production, or taking redundancy, it said on…
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