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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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Crossrail hired security firm to monitor trade unionists

“Senior managers at Crossrail, the huge publicly funded rail project in London, hired a corporate security company to monitor trade unionists who were campaigning against blacklisting across the construction industry, …

Segundo Juzgado Laboral de Santiago acogió denuncia por prácticas antisindicales contra empresa de transporte aéreo deducida por sindicato de tripulantes de cabina.

El Segundo Juzgado de Letras del Trabajo de Santiago acogió una denuncia por prácticas antisindicales interpuesta por el Sindicato de Tripulantes de Cabina de la Empresa Lanexpress en contra de …

NMB Final Rule on Union Decertification Procedures

The new rule, which enters into force August 2019, would simply the procedure to decertify a union in the airline and railway industry.  Once it is determined that the showing …

NLRB says Walmart’s firing of workers involved in union-backed strike were legal

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Walmart Stores Inc did not violate federal labor law by firing or disciplining dozens of employees who took part in a nationwide …

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