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...(Kenza Bryan) Nike investors dial up pressure on worker rights Earlier this year, we reported that unions and non-profit groups were taking Nike to task, alleging that its Asian suppliers had not paid...
...Japan is having to rethink its business models as the world’s fastest-ageing society runs out of workers....
...In the US, the United Auto Workers union is making unusually public efforts to unionise workers at 13 carmakers that have non-union plants, including Tesla, after it wrested sizeable pay rises and concessions...
...Peloton’s chief executive-to-median worker pay ratio of 2,299-to-one compares with an average of 324-to-one among S&P 500 bosses, according to the 2021 Paywatch Report from the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions...
...Florida-based grocery chain Publix is the first to partner with Instacart, with warehouses operating in Miami....
...Living in north-eastern England, she began working for What Works Wellbeing from a free desk seated among the public health team of a local council....
...Russia’s economy: Russia’s army and its weapons factories are sucking in a growing number of workers as Moscow is braced for a long war in Ukraine, leaving civilian sectors with painful labour shortages...
...The United Auto Workers union said on Thursday that standards for EV adoption should be set “to feasible levels”, tightening “over a greater period of time”....
...He accepts that workers may be done with long commutes into city offices — no matter how new the bean bags. But those with short drives to a local building with car spaces are returning....
...(Gillian Tett and Patrick Temple-West) Few parts of the financial sector have been more controversial than the private equity industry....
...With confidence dented across the sector, New York’s Signature Bank also fell....
...Scalia argues a better way to promote sustainability would be to mandate that governments have to ensure that they purchase sustainable fabrics for public workers and services, such as towels in hospitals...
...by the AFL-CIO, a federation of US labour unions....
...Now, 20 Asian worker unions and a pair of non-profit groups are trying to hold Nike to account — through an unusual route....
...“The blue states are much friendlier to Chinese, but [have] higher taxes, more worker unions, overall high costs and possibly more safety issues.”...
...More than 1,000 Passport Office workers in the Public and Commercial Services union begin a five-week walkout over pay....
...Also, driving examiners who are part of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union begin a programme of rolling strikes over pay, pensions and jobs....
...A surprise drop in public sector borrowing has brought hope of a resolution to many of the pay disputes, but the situation remains complicated....
...That initial public offering proved to be another gusher of cash, giving the Cerberus group $800mn....
...Perhaps weigh your risk tolerance against your desired industry and compare options in the public sector, public companies, and VC-funded start-ups....
...Even so, after all the internal change agents and external agitators, “your average worker’s still not making $29,000 a year”....
...Wages are rising in the sector....
...wage increases to €12 an hour Latvia, parliamentary election Nigeria, National Day holiday UK, rail workers in the RMT and Aslef unions begin the first of two 24-hour strikes over pay UK, NHS surgeries...
...Once the story gets out, it creates a business opportunity for a primary sector worker and a consultant....
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