One Year Since the Jasic Incident. Arrests and Detention System with Chinese Characteristics

In July 2018, the labour action at Jasic Technology Co., Ltd in Shenzhen was succeeded by a series of crackdowns towards the strike workers and their fellow supporters as well …

‘Extraordinary act of vandalism’: Burrow calls on Senate to block union-busting bill

The world’s top union leader says the Morrison government’s union-busting legislation has sent “shockwaves around the world”, calling on the Senate crossbench to block it to protect workers’ rights. Sharan …

Secretaría del Trabajo impugna las suspensiones contra la reforma laboral que promueve CTM

La Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social (STPS) impugnó las dos suspensiones definitivas en contra de la reforma a la Ley Federal del Trabajo que le fueron otorgadas al Sindicato Samuel Chávez Ayala de …

Centrales obreras hacen frente común contra la legitimación de CCT

Representantes de las confederaciones de Trabajadores de México (CTM), la Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC) y las demás centrales afiliadas al Congreso del Trabajo (CT) han comenzado a organizarse …

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Alberta’s Newly Elected Government Looks to the U.S. for Inspiration on Labor Law Reform

“In April, Alberta elected the right-wing United Conservative Party (UCP)to a majority government, ending the one term reign of the left-of-centre New Democratic Party (NDP). The UCP ran on a platform …

Counterfeit Liberty

Unlike some countries with stronger labor movements, labor law plays an outsized role in the regulation of labor relations in the United States. This legalistic regime tends to substitute state …

Holiday chaos looms as attempts by BA to block pilot strikes fail

Strikes by British Airways pilots could disrupt hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers from August after the airline lost a second legal attempt to block industrial action. The court of appeal on …

Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019

Amends the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 to: include certain serious criminal offences as a new category of ‘prescribed offence’ for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime in relation to …

S. Korea: Gov’t seeks to allow fired workers to join enterprise-level unions

“The Ministry of Employment and Labor said Tuesday it was submitting revisions to the Labor Law that will among other things allow people who were fired to retain their company’s …

Leave Scabby the Rat Alone

Will the Trump administration ever leave Scabby the Rat alone? Unlikely, Gothamist reported on Monday. The aggressive-looking rat inflatable is beloved by unions, who display it and other inflatable animals to …

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