‘The Spirit of Australia’, just not in a pandemic: Qantas plays hard-ball on workers’ rights

“Nine years ago, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce made himself a household name by embarking on a high-risk strategy in an industrial dispute that involved grounding the airline’s fleet globally. Faced …

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Unfair Choices: Can Workers Refuse to Return If Their Workplaces Are Unsafe?

“Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some workers have faced a gut-wrenching decision: stay at work and risk illness and death, or leave work and lose their job.  Although …

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Will global corporations take responsibility for those they have long exploited?

This commentary by Jay Ramasubramanyam, discusses the need to reevaluate, restructure, and emphasize the need for a massive shift in the way global supply chains work. In particular, multinational corporations …

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Implications for Corporate Governance Reform of the (Almost) First Food Delivery App Union

“It was supposed to be the first union for food delivery app couriers in North America. In February 2020, the labor relations board for the Canadian province of Ontario found that …

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Posición del Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores – Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (PIT-CNT) con respecto al Proyecto de Ley con declaración de urgente consideración

INTRODUCCION Se encuentra a estudio de esta Comisión del Senado el Proyecto de Ley con declaratoria de urgente consideración remitido por el Poder Ejecutivo, con fecha 28 de abril del …

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Can fast fashion’s $2.5tn supply chain be stitched back together?

““As I am sure you are aware,” read the email, “the impact on retail will be vast.” It was only then, says Mostafiz Uddin, boss of Bangladeshi clothes manufacturer Denim …

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Desafíos de la Covid-19 en América Latina: la región más desigual del mundo”

“Un artículo reciente de una periodista paraguaya citaba a varias personas que reaccionaron negativamente a un mensaje viral en Twitter en el que se capturaba a un adolescente de 14 años …

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A CBA By Women, For Women: Demographics, Identity, and the New WNBA-WNBPA CBA

The workplace benefits historically marginalized groups enjoy from unionization are well-documented. For example, according to 2019 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, unionized female employees earn 29% more than …

A Brief History of the Gig

“In early 2012, San Francisco taxi drivers began to raise the alarm at organizing meetings and city hearings about “bandit tech cabs” pilfering their fares. “I’ll sit at a hotel …

Modi’s asked Indian firms to ‘be kind’ amid lockdown but many workers have not been paid their wages

“At least three petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court demanding that companies be given the freedom to fire or furlough employees. Mysore-based Hazira, 26, who goes by one …

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