Govt to revise trade union rules requiring minimum 50 workers

The government has rolled back its earlier decision allowing trade unions to be formed in any factory with the support of just 20 workers.  Under the new rules, the minimum …

The Cost of Convenience

Since entering India’s e-commerce market in 2013, Amazon has experienced rapid and sustained growth. The company’s expansion narrative is both straightforward and ambitious: to deliver faster service to customers. However, …

Labor groups warn of ‘gaping hole’ in First Amendment if court OKs Trump’s anti-union orders

Attorneys for the nation’s largest federal employee union warned this week that the August decision to allow President Trump’s executive orders stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of their collective …

Negotiating the Algorithm

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is today launching a guide to help workers prevent the abuse of algorithmic management and put the human back in control in their workplaces. …

Watering down Employment Rights Bill would threaten ‘once in a generation’ chance to close gender pay gap, ministers warned

The government has been warned against allowing amendments from the Lords to water down its flagship Employment Rights Bill, with seven leading women’s organisations arguing that this would hamper efforts to …

Labour must deliver collective bargaining for unions – John Hendy

The Employment Rights Bill is nearly an Act. It only remains for the government to use its majority in the House of Commons to defeat the Tory and Lib-Dem amendments …

Book: The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation

“This book is the first comprehensive academic treatment of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and employment rights, which has a global vocation demonstrated by having …

A Labor Day Call for Action From the States

Last week the White House staged a pre-Labor Day Cabinet meeting to celebrate the administration’s supposed victories for American workers. Cabinet members took turns offering fawning, sycophantic praise of their boss …

‘All the power is with the employer’: why zero-hours workers welcome Labour’s rights bill

When Seamus Foley took a job on a zero-hours contract at a board games bar in London two years ago, the flexibility it offered was appealing. Now, the deal looks …

California reaches deal with Uber, Lyft to allow driver unions

California lawmakers reached an agreement Friday with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions, a victory for organized labor that could lay the …