After a year of labor actions and demands for higher wages to combat high inflation, negotiations between trade unions and employers at the municipal and federal levels head into their third round next week.
Jenny Brown reports on the vote by New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee to scrap some of the best retiree health care coverage in the country and push retirees onto the for-profit Medicare Advantage plan.
Dr. Susan Rosenthal describes the rise of Canada’s public health system during labor’s rebellious postwar period and the corporate profiteering by which it is now being destroyed.
While the government refused to discuss workers’ demands for months the wave of strikes and protests have led it to call nurses, ambulance workers, and physiotherapists to the negotiating table.
“There’s a class war going on whether we want to recognize it or not,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said at the conclusion of Wednesday’s combative hearing on the right of workers to organize unions.
The mobilization on Tuesday was the latest demonstration against a government initiative that is currently being discussed in the French Senate. While the bill calls for raising the retirement age, protesters want it lowered.
As the toxic aftermath of the major Norfolk Southern derailment plays out, Railroad Workers United calls for public ownership of a system beset with “profiteering, pillaging and irresponsibility.”
Georgii Sandul surveys the anti-labor effects of laws passed in the last year and notes that they do not bring the country any closer to joining the E.U.
An employment pact that seems designed for people in high-level positions of confidentiality are being signed by all kinds of workers — so many that the Federal Trade Commission is considering outlawing the practice.
The government seems willing to undermine the very bedrock of human rights law to keep employees at work, writes Aidan McQuade.
