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"زاد إجمالى عدد حالات إصابات العمل في عام بنسبة 17% في عام 2010 حيث بلغت 18ألفا و495 حالة عام 2010 مقابل 15ألفا و878 حالة عام 2009 بزيادة قدرها ألفين و617.
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"Twenty-five Indonesian maids are on death row in Saudi Arabia and 22 others have been pardoned and sent home, local media reported on Friday, adding that Jakarta will send a delegation for talks on the issue."
"Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc and his entire cabinet resigned on Monday in hopes of quelling anti-austerity demonstrations that began more than two weeks ago. Demonstrators took to the streets to support a cabinet member who resigned to protest a plan by Romanian President Traian Basescu to privatize parts of the country’s health care system."
"As part of Shift Magazine's series on precarity, Juan Conatz describes a day in the work life of a sleep deprived day laborer. "
"From the Financial Times to the far left, tons of ink has been spilt writing about some variant of the “Crises of Global Capitalism”. While writers differ in the causes, consequences and cures, according to their ideological lights, there is a common agreement that “the crises” threatens to end the capitalist system as we know it."
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the ‘crises of capital’ has been converted into a strategic advantage for furthering the most fundamental interests of capital: the enlargement of profits, the consolidation of capitalist rule, the greater concentration of ownership, the deepening of inequalities between capital and labor and the creation of huge reserves of labor to further augment their profits.
"Tens of millions of workers took part in a one-day general strike in India on February 28 in the country’s largest industrial action since its independence in 1947."
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Among the demands that the unions made were the establishment of a national minimum wage, the end of temporary employment (what are called “contract laborers” in India) in favor of permanent jobs, more efforts to curb runaway inflation (the official rate is hovering at around 7.5 percent), guaranteed pensions, and an end to the privatization of publicly owned companies.
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For the past decade, India has been the darling of the economic pundits globally, with massive growth rates and a burgeoning middle class whose consumptive powers have fuelled the national mythology of “India Shining.” According to current estimates, the Indian economy grew at around 7 percent last year and is projected to grow again at a similar rate in 2012.
"Electricians in the construction industry have won a decisive victory, after Balfour Beatty threw in the towel."
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In August last year, a breakaway group of employers, headed up by Balfour Beatty’s electrical services wing, walked away from the national negotiating body, and announced they were forming a new employers’ group. They simultaneously announced that they would be imposing new contracts on all their electricians, to take effect at the start of December – removing travel allowances, ending existing overtime agreements and current grading agreements, and leading to pay cuts of up to 35%.
"Spain’s biggest trade unions - CCOC (Comisiones Obreras, Workers Committees) and UGT (Unión General de Trabajadores, General Workers’ Union) - organised a massive clamor against the labour market reforms that the government is planning on February 19."
For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Armed Forces will be deployed to intervene in a labor dispute, facilitating a scab operation against union dockworkers at the Port of Longview in Washington.
On 30 January, only five days into the revolution, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions was born, the first such federation to be established since the union movement was monopolized by the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation in 1957. Since then, some 300 independent unions have been established nationwide, with a reported membership of nearly two million workers.
The success of the 25 January uprising in toppling Hosni Mubarak was made possible by industrial actions in key sectors of the Egyptian economy, not exclusively by the popular occupations of Tahrir and other city squares.
PROTESTS AGAINST union-busting and police brutality in New York City last week--while smaller than the biggest mobilizations recently--show that the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is continuing to grow and relate to the struggles of working-class New Yorkers.
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"ORGANIZED LABOR IS weighing in on the side of the Occupy Wall Street protests--and business is taking notice of the biggest labor-left alliance since the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999."
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"There’s been a fair amount going on over the last week or so. On the workplace front, militant cleaners in London continue to fight for the living wage, and the rank-and-file electricians’ network certainly isn’t running out of energy"
"Will workers join political reformists in Egypt, or will they negotiate a separate deal with the post-Mubarak military regime? "
"CAIRO – Here in this nation that long outlawed strikes and largely judged independent unions to be enemies of the state, a juggernaut labor movement is flourishing in the light of the Arab Spring."
"We've all heard tales about child labor – the suffering, gross injustice and heartache. Today, we conclude our series with an unusual child labor story. "
"Police in Bedfordshire have arrested five people on charges of slavery following a raid on a caravan site in Leighton Buzzard. "
"Gary Lapon looks at a trend among employers to bar the unemployed from seeking jobs--and why such discrimination is a built-in part of capitalism."
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U.S. employers of all sizes, staffing agencies and online job posting firms are using recruitment and hiring policies that expressly deny employment to the unemployed--simply because they are not currently working. In other words, at a time when the competition for jobs is extraordinarily intense--with nearly five unemployed job seekers for each new job opening--some businesses and recruitment firms are telling would-be job seekers that they can't get a job unless they already have a job.
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According to the Christian Science Monitor, "6.18 million or 44.4 percent of all unemployed workers" have been jobless for longer than 27 weeks, with an average of over 40 weeks on unemployment for these workers.
"we can choose to view Labor Day as nothing more than the symbolic end of summer and an excuse for more shopping…or we can use it as inspiration to reflect upon some of the brave souls who forged a path of justice and solidarity:"
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