Workers at a Nissan assembly plant in Mississippi have voted against forming a union, adding to decades of futility by United Auto Workers organizers at foreign-owned auto plants in the American South. Representatives of Nissan Motor Co. and the UAW said late Friday voters at ...
High profile backers of a union at Nissan's Mississippi plant are renewing their support for the United Auto Workers. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez addressed UAW supporters by videoconference Tuesday, two days before 3,700 workers begin voting on whether ...
This week's query comes from A.R., who is having some problems with a less-than-cooperative former employer
The German economy is going great guns thanks to high exports and strong unions.
The operator of Disney theme parks in Japan and its labor union said Wednesday they have agreed that about 20,000 nonregular workers can join the union in a joint effort to improve working conditions and secure manpower. Show performers, attraction facility staff and part-time workers ...
A labor representative blasts the government’s proposed 100-hour OT cap for peak periods as ‘totally impossible’ at a labor-management forum on workplace reform.
Workers sued for millions of yen over protests outside the company that fired them take their case to the Supreme Court.
Londoners face transport chaos at the start of the working week after two unions representing workers on the London Underground said they would go ahead with a 24-hour strike from Sunday evening. Metro operator Transport for London (TfL) said most stations in central London would ...
The year 2016 was no walk in the park for workers nationwide. At one extreme, we have Matsuri Takahashi, a 24-year-old worker who felt she had no other choice but to take her life as a result of overwork. In October, the Ministry of Health, ...
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to add another wealthy business person and elite donor to his Cabinet, with fast-food executive Andrew Puzder as labor secretary. Puzder heads CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company of Carl's Jr., Hardee's and other chains. In 2010, he published a ...
Executives heading the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) have agreed that the organization will request a pay scale hike for the fourth consecutive year in the next shunto labor-management wage negotiations toward next spring. The executives reached the agreement at a meeting Friday in the ...
Those doing the same work under the same conditions and with the same responsibilities should not be treated unfairly just because they are over 60 and now on fixed-term contracts.
