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The United Food and Commercial Workers union protested the online grocery delivery company's decision to let go of scores of immigrant workers. A unionization vote is planned this weekend.
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With organized labor in disarray, two unions renewed threats Wednesday to break from the AFL-CIO in a deepening feud over how to stem the erosion of membership and revive labor's economic and political strength.
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THE REGION The Boston City Council is expected to pass a resolution today calling the recent move to outsource about 50 jobs at The Boston Globe to India "deplorable." The resolution, by Council President Maureen E. Feeney of Dorchester and Councilor Felix Arroyo of Hyde Park, lends support to a protest by the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents editorial, advertising, ...
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Several hundred union members marched outside the Labor Department to protest new overtime pay regulations taking effect Monday, with two senators pledging to roll them back when Congress returns from recess.
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Political parties in India's West Bengal state call for fresh strikes in defiance of a court order declaring them illegal.
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A fresh wave of national strikes by postal workers will be held by the end of the month unless a bitter row over pay and conditions is resolved, union leaders announced today.
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Signs of shop floor support for consumer groups urging action over soaring prices.
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Union leader to ask members to ignore calls for an academic boycott of Israel.
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About 150 members of the Service Employees International Union staged a boisterous demonstration outside the Carlyle Group's District headquarters yesterday to protest the private-equity firm's proposed acquisition of nursing-home giant Manor Care.
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Political activists in pig snouts protested over Halliburton's controversial contracts in Iraq on Tuesday, the start of a day of "direct action" against delegates attending the Republican convention in New York.
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As the chants of striking union workers filtered up to the hospitality room of the Hyatt Regency today, general managers of hotels represented by the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group announced that they had locked out UNITE HERE Local 2 employees from
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Customers are protesting about changes made by web firm Fasthosts following a security breach.
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WASHINGTON - Several hundred union members marched outside the Labor Department to protest new overtime pay regulations taking effect Monday, with two senators pledging to roll them back when Congress returns from recess.    Protesters, many wearing union T-shirts, carried signs such as "President Bush: Hands off my overtime pay," and chanted, "Come on all you billionaires, give us wages that are fair."  "The fight is not over yet," said Republican Sen...
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Prison officers are pressing for industrial action in protest at moves to ban them from striking, a union says.
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Changes in the organization of the taxicab industry are behind some of the dissatisfaction voiced by drivers threatening to strike this week.
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Trade unions in France aren't giving up their short work week without a fight. They gathered more than 300,000 people Sunday for marches in cities across France, to protest plans to chip-away at the 35-hour ...
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Safeway Inc. yesterday said that for the first time, it will open many of its supermarkets on Christmas Day, a move that triggered an angry protest from the union representing the grocer's Washington area employees.