Call to stop worker exploitation
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Tens of thousands of vulnerable workers are being exploited by rogue employers, warns Citizens Advice.
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MOSCOW, Jan 4 (IPS) - A group of civil society activists has called for  immediate boycott of Uzbek cotton produced by forced child labour.
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Chairman of the Finnish Metalworkers' Union, Erkki Vuorenmaa (soc dem) pleaded the Finnish Transport Workers' Union (AKT) to end the strike which began Tuesday last week and now affects bus transport in eight ...
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Editorial: Laid-off IT workers who think they're doing people a favor by dissuading them from entering the IT profession need to look beyond their own disenchantment.
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Union demands talks over job cut plans Union representatives for Royal Dutch Shell's IT workers demanded talks with the firm's top management yesterday over the outsourcing of up to 3,000 jobs at the oil giant.â¦
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A leading union threatens to name and shame employers who fail to tackle bullying at work.
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When chronicling the decades-long decline of organized labor in the United States, commentators have often examined the dwindling role of unions in troubled industries such as cars and coal. Few consider the more hopeful case of the catfish industry.
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The war on drugs is high on Labour&#39;s latest agenda. A new report will make sobering reading. By Sophie Goodchild and Andrew Johnson.
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Longer working hours have sparked a heated debate in several northern European countries where businesses seek to remain competitive and unions claim jobs are being held hostage.
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A coalition of environmental and conservation groups calls for a ban on the damaging fishing practice known as bottom-trawling.
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Senior officials of 143 governments are calling for the total ban of production and use of anti-personnel landmine. Senior government officials of 143 countries across the world
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Governments worldwide must do more to   protect a growing number of women from exploitation when they   venture overseas to work and earn money for their families, a   U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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Human rights organisation Amnesty International calls for an end to forced evictions in Cambodia.
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Public sector workers threaten "coordinated industrial action" against the government's pay settlement.
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Tips for consumers who want to avoid buying products made by child laborers.
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A media advocacy group on Wednesday urged Apple Computer Inc. to intervene in a dispute over alleged labor abuses by an iPod manufacturer in China.
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Workers who spend excessive amounts of time at their desk could be putting their lives at risk, research suggests.