Union calls 1-day strike at Amazon Germany
Workers at online retailer Amazon's German operations are staging a third one-day strike over pay. Union ver.di called on staff at Amazon's ...
NKorean farmers planting rice with profits in mind
North Korean farmers knee deep in muddy paddies across the country have a new incentive during this year's crucial rice planting season: possible ...
VW's German workers win raises in pay deal
Volkswagen's German factory workers will get a two-stage raise under a new wage deal reached as the automaker grapples with slipping sales and profit.
Amazon workers in Germany stage strike
Amazon's German workers are staging a short-term strike in a push for higher wages. The ver.di union said Monday employees in Leipzig are walking off ...
Croatia Airlines goes on strike over pay cuts
Croatia Airlines pilots and flight attendants went on strike Tuesday over planned salary cuts and layoffs that are part of efforts to restructure the ...
Bangladesh garment disaster death toll reaches 761
The death toll from a collapsed building housing five garment factories rose to 761 on Wednesday as authorities started disbursing salary and other ...
Bangladesh garment accident death toll passes 700
Hundreds of survivors of last month's collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh protested for compensation Tuesday, as the death ...
Unidentified victims of Bangladesh collapse buried
Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers whose bodies were too battered or decomposed to be identified were buried in a mass funeral, a week after the ...
Lufthansa, union agree on wage increases
Germany's biggest airline Lufthansa and the union ver.di have agreed on wage increases for some 33,000 employees. German news agency dpa says ...
Shoppers face hurdles in finding ethical clothing
The building collapse in Bangladesh that killed hundreds of clothing factory workers last week put a spotlight on the sobering fact that people in ...
Surviving hell in a Bangladesh factory collapse
Merina was so tired. It had been three days since the garment factory where she worked had collapsed around her, three days since she'd moved more ...
VA withholds disability claims executives' bonuses
The Department of Veterans Affairs is withholding bonuses for senior officials who oversee disability claims, citing a failure to meet performance ...
US immigration bill could slow Indian outsourcers
Low cost efficiency put India's outsourcing companies at the heart of global business and created a multibillion dollar industry that for years has ...
Greek farm shootings highlight migrants' plight
After months of pressing the strawberry plantation over pay, the Bangladeshi migrant laborers gathered in the field hoping that a deal was near.
German industry pay offer short of union demand
Employers in Germany's key manufacturing sector on Friday offered a pay increase that fell well short of a union's call for a 5.5 percent raise for ...
Lufthansa workers to strike next week
The union representing 33,000 workers at Lufthansa AG says it will stage a short-term strike next week after the latest round of wage negotiations ...
Frugal pope nixes bonus for Vatican employees
The global economic crisis is hitting Vatican employees in their cassock pockets. The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis, known for his frugal ...
German postal workers on strike
A union says German postal workers have walked off the job in several regions and it will continue to stage small-scale warning strikes through Friday ...
German postal workers walk off the job
Postal workers are on strike in Germany in a one-day walkout meant to put pressure on Deutsche Post AG for higher wages. The ver.di union said ...
Senators caution immigration deal not final
Even with one of the largest hurdles to an immigration overhaul overcome, optimistic lawmakers on Sunday cautioned they had not finished work on a ...
France to tax companies 75 pct on $1.3M salaries
French President Francois Hollande may have finally found a way to tax the really rich: by making their companies pay. In a televised interview ...
Hundreds of Greek seamen unpaid for months
In rain and shrieking wind, the ferry strains at its ropes, the gangplank creaking and scraping against the pier. A sailor on night watch duty huddles ...
Senators close in on immigration deal
A last-minute dispute over wages for lower-skilled workers flared Friday as senators scrambled to sketch out a deal on a sweeping immigration bill ...
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