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...Up the workers: Germany’s labour market is a source of “stability” amid economic gloom, according to the head of the Federal Employment Agency....
...An unprecedented wave of gang attacks on civilians killed four people and triggered several paralysing strikes by transport workers in the city in March....
...O’Brien, a fourth-generation Teamster and longtime leader of its Boston local, had been an outspoken critic of then-president James Hoffa, the son of Jimmy Hoffa, the late legendary Teamsters boss....
...More than 70 per cent of construction groups reported difficulty finding workers, according to a survey from the Associated General Contractors of America....
...“The era of $4 prices from Los Angeles to Cabo [San Lucas, Mexico] and $7 from New York to Florida or $9 from Houston to Central America are probably a thing of the past,” he said....
...Russia, 70th anniversary of the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin UK, annual ticket price increases for London’s public transport will see fares rising by an average of 5.9 per cent...
...I’ll never forget an interview I did years ago with the late Richard Trumka, the then-president of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labour union....
...The economy had never really recovered from the end of Moscow’s patronage after the Soviet Union collapsed, or from the devastating famine which followed in the 1990s....
...While garment workers and union leaders filed into their seats to listen to the prime minister’s address, I glanced up at a stern-looking picture of Sheikh Mujib....
...Or perhaps not, if you are celebrating either the passage of spring, the rights of workers or Eid with the help of an early May bank holiday....
...That is the claim of the Teamsters union, which has represented transport and logistics workers for more than a century, and which says the spotlight on working conditions across America’s largest ecommerce...
...A 2018 report from the Union of Concerned Scientists estimated that 94 per cent of Miami Beach would be underwater by 2100....
...Just 19 per cent of workers are back in San Francisco offices, according to security firm Kastle Systems....
...She emphasises quality of life: local amenities, services and transport; safety; training opportunities and incentives to attract skilled workers; and good schools....
...The union has called the medallion-debt situation an “economic crisis on the verge of becoming a humanitarian crisis”. Is this simply a New York fight? Some readers might be tempted to think so....
...Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s largest carrier, which has funnelled medical equipment to countries across Africa and Latin America, has established an air bridge to transport cold vaccines from Shenzhen in...
...“The massive furloughs and firings of America’s airline workers jeopardise the livelihoods of tens of thousands and threaten to accelerate the devastating economic crisis facing our nation,” Ms Pelosi said...
...Wiebke Winter, a 25-year-old lawyer from the port city of Bremen, is a rising star in Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)....
...(FT) Joe Biden’s win provides boost for US unions Union membership in the US has declined in recent years — down to 14.6m, or 10.3 per cent, of wage and salary workers in 2019....
...and Latin America....
...of efforts by local governments to stimulate their pandemic-hit economies....
...But there may be a silver lining: data from China, which came out of lockdown as Europe and the Americas were just entering theirs, show a sharp rise in individual car use as commuters shun public transport...
...Supporters of the Vermont senator called top officials of the local union represententing hospitality workers “bitches” and “evil, entitled assholes” after the union distributed a flyer warning Mr Sanders...
...Police arrested some 300 demonstrators including the president of the Chamber of Transport in the southern city of Cuenca and the head of a transport workers’ union in the surrounding province of Azuay,...
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