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Rana Foroohar
Workers could be the ones to regulate AI
...The Tennessee Valley Authority project of the 1930s was successful in large part because of input from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which had developed in tandem with the new technology...
October 2, 2023
Unions
Teamsters boss vows tougher line in US labour talks
...But those new unions have struggled to secure the employment contracts necessary to create gains for workers, and the formation of bargaining units has slowed....
June 7, 2023
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Transcript
A historic auto workers strike
...[MUSIC PLAYING] (Protesters chanting) Negotiations between the United Auto Workers Union and Detroit automakers resumed over the weekend after thousands of workers walked off the job last Thursday at midnight...
September 18, 2023
FT Wealth
Rising interest rates bring German luxury property to a standstill
...Meanwhile, predictions that workers would relocate en masse from London to Frankfurt as financial groups shifted operations following the UK’s exit from the European Union, have not come true....
March 27, 2023
News in-depthNikkei Asia
Decoupling denied: Japan Inc lays its bets on China
...Japan’s motorcycle industry, high-speed trains and, of course, electrical appliances are some industries where Japanese investment in China created powerful international competitors....
February 16, 2021
UK employment
UK wage growth expected to increase but to remain modest
...This reduces the bargaining power of workers, irrespective of unemployment and so I would expect wages to stay low....
January 1, 2018
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
UK GDP
UK productivity growth will be sluggish, say economists
...Less rigid trade union laws, a return to collective bargaining together with the Gaullist policy of worker-directors as in Germany would ensure that morale is raised....
January 1, 2018
News in-depthThe Big Read
US labour: High stakes on low pay
...He believes unions need to engage urgently in a variety of experiments — “rapid prototyping”, he calls it — to find new ways of raising revenue now that collective bargaining units have lost so much of their...
April 14, 2015
Entrepreneurship
Business pioneers in industry
...Closer to home, he introduced laws that would benefit mine and industry owners, at the expense of local people....
March 31, 2015
Personal & Household Goods
Bangladesh factory disasters highlight regulatory failures
...Big retailers insist they do their best to make sure that local suppliers treat their workers decently. But there are plenty of examples of cracks in the system....
April 25, 2013
Italian politics
Italian labour reforms face more change
...Their programme also envisages the introduction of minimum salaries in local contract bargaining as well as unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed....
February 19, 2013
African companies
Tips on reviving South Africa’s mines
...the confidence of local and international investors....
September 2, 2012
World
Progress belies lack of political vision
...Another of Austria’s chief economic assets is a system of collective bargaining that has traditionally helped to keep unit labour costs under control....
November 18, 2012
US & Canadian companies
Verizon telephone workers strike
...The strikers are members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who work for Verizon’s traditional fixed-line phone operations as telephone and repair...
August 8, 2011
US & Canadian companies
FedEx hits at UPS on union bill
...bail-out” for UPS, which is subject to different bargaining rules and remains the largest employer of members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters....
June 8, 2009
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
European companies
Thousands protest at Opel Antwerp plant
...The unions also met to discuss how to use their one bargaining chip: whether to recant the concessions made to GM during the crisis that have the potential to reduce costs by hundreds of millions of dollars...
September 23, 2009
EU energy
Green barricade: Trade faces a new test as carbon taxes go global
...The proposal had substantial input from American Electric Power, one of the US’s largest electric utilities, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which represents many power employees...
January 23, 2008
News in-depthWorld
How China is handling cost rises by boosting value
...says Donald Hay, chief executive of Hayco, a manufacturer of household cleaning and electrical products that employs some 6,800 workers in Shenzhen. ?We?ve just contracted out the kitchens.?...
May 7, 2006
UK schools
Election 2005: The key players
...The former trade union campaigner hails from a working-class background in the staunchly Labour north-east of England....
April 5, 2005

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