Agency workers across the UK were set to receive a pay and conditions boost when new rights come into force today. The Agency Workers Directive was...
AP | By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS | Posted 12.13.2011 | Business
NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Thousands of Cyprus government workers held a three-hour strike Tuesday to protest a proposed two-year salary freeze they regard is...
David Coates | Posted 10.29.2011 | Politics
In the right-wing litany, trade unions stand accused of causing unemployment by inflating wages and of blocking productivity growth and investment. The claims would be laughable were they not so dangerous.
Kelly Nicholls | Posted 08.22.2011 | World
Bowing to pressure, the Obama administration is pushing the FTA forward with little consideration of its potential impacts on marginalized and impoverished sectors of Colombian society.
Lacy Schutz | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
We celebrate Women's History Month with this selection of photographs, and observe the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a seminal event in women's labor history.
Rabah Ghezali | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
French public opinion and political culture is at least one ocean apart from those in America. But the French failure to meet the challenge of reform in 2010 teaches America that the longer it waits, the harder and more unfair reform will become.
Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Obama and Miliband have this in common: despite their strong left-wing credentials, neither are wholly committed to the historical, ideological frameworks of their parties.
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
The U.S. has a more restrictive stance towards workers' rights than Western Europe, Canada and even Israel, according to a new report. The report, r...
PA | Posted 12.24.2011 | Home