Walmart to be prosecuted for firing striking workers, union group says Workers’ rights groups demonstrate in the street in Washington. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency that oversees workers’ rights, is to announce… Read More ›
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Prisons now over 99 per cent full – official ( U.K. )
Prisons in England and Wales are virtually full, official figures show. Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: ‘Cramming ever greater numbers of people into overcrowded prisons with fewer staff and less time out of cell is no… Read More ›
20,000 Swiss civil servants protest austerity
AFPMarch 17, 2013, 2:52 am AFP © 20,000 Swiss civil servants protest austerity GENEVA (AFP) – Some 20,000 teachers, police, hospital workers and other civil servants gathered in the Swiss capital Saturday to protest austerity measures and demand better working… Read More ›
Greece: gov’t orders dock workers to get back on the job
After islands were cut off from mainland for the sixth day 05 February, 19:39 Unusual inactivity at Greece’s biggest harbour in Piraeus, as no ship or ferry-boat left Unusual inactivity at Greece’s biggest harbour in Piraeus, as no ship or… Read More ›
Walmart worker strikes go viral, hitting 28 stores in 12 states
By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, October 10, 2012 14:16 EDT Topics: Walmart ♦ walmart stores ♦ workers Walmart workers who recently went on strike in Illinois and California appear to have inspired some of their fellow big box employees, and… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 