Protestors in Detroit last month objected to plans to cut pension benefits of city workers and retirees. The federal judge overseeing Detroit’s bankruptcy case says he will hold a hearing Wednesday to take up a request by the city’s emergency manager to put on hold state lawsuits challenging the bankruptcy filing. The new development comes as the legal wrangling over the bankruptcy of the city... 

Spaniards protesting against medical spending cuts in Madrid on February 17, 2013. Amid fresh reports of Royal family corruption, furious Spaniards are set to stage massive nationwide protests against severe budget cuts. Massive protests have been planned for Saturday in Madrid, Barcelona and other cities. Teachers, students, miners, medical staff, workers from various sectors, along with a number... 

Aircraft are stationed on the tarmac of Madrid’s Barajas airport during a one-day strike by the pilots of the Spanish airline Iberia. Workers at Spain’s flag carrier airline Iberia have launched a five-day strike over its plan to cut over 3,800 jobs and reduce salaries. The walkout, which is supported by luggage handlers, pilots and flight attendants, has forced Iberia to ground 415 flights from... 

Water cannons have been used against stone-throwing demonstrators in the Belgian city of Namur, as thousands rallied against the closure of a factory that will put an end to 1,300 jobs. Dozens of riot police were deployed to quell the tensions. Many protesters are wearing respirators to protect themselves against the police crackdown. The rally followed an announcement by ArcelorMittal, the world’s... 

In 2012, full-time union members had a median weekly salary of USD 943, with their non-union counterparts earning only USD 742. A new report shows that American labor unions have experienced their worst decline in membership in nearly 80 years, mainly due to losses of public sector workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday that the union membership rate fell from 11.8 to 11.3 percent... 

Did you see the huge crowds of protesters that flooded the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday? They were there to protest two bills there were being considered by the state legislature that would limit the power of unions in the state. Michigan lawmakers approved the bills and this absolutely infuriated the protesters. There is a lot of passion on both sides of this debate, but I am afraid that both sides... 

Major US electronics corporation Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) plans to eliminate 1,700 jobs. Major US electronics corporation Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has announced plans to slash its global workforce by 1,700 people as a ‘cost-cutting’ measure. The move, announced Wednesday by the Dallas-based chipmaker, is part of the TI’s plan to discontinue its mobile business, according to the company’s... 

Workers in Argentina have staged a massive protest to voice their anger at the new labor risk legislation which they say protects only the insurance companies, Press TV reports. The demonstrators gathered outside the National Congress in the capital city, Buenos Aires, to protest a bill submitted by President Cristina Fernandez last week which the workers say seeks to defend profits of Labor Risk... 

Striking South African mine workers listen to their union representatives. South African gold miners have ended their strike after signing a pay deal, which has arranged for increase in their salaries. “Members have accepted a new pay structure,” South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said in a statement on Thursday, AFP reported. The Chamber of Mines confirmed that the miners... 

Striking platinum miners gather outside the Amplats mine in Rustenburg, South Africa on October 5, 2012. The world’s biggest platinum producer, Amplats has fired 12,000 workers after they held a wildcat strike for three weeks at its mine in South Africa’s eastern town of Rustenberg. “Approximately 12,000 striking employees chose not to make representations, nor attend the hearings, and have... 

Portuguese protesters hold banners with anti-government policy messages during a protest against austerity measures, on the day of the general strike, in Lisbon on November 24, 2011. Portugal’s main trade union, the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP), has fiercely condemned as a “declaration of war against workers” a new set of austerity measures introduced by the government... 

South African workers arrested after a shooting at a platinum mine have been charged with killing 34 of their colleagues, despite confirmation that police committed the murders. The officers, who did not deny using guns, face no charges. ­The Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, in the country’s North West province, made headlines on August 16, when protesters, who demanded their wages be raised... 

A company charged with decontaminating the devastated Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant encouraged its workers to falsely lower their radiation dosimeter readings by covering the devices with lead, according to a leaked tape of an internal meeting. Nuclear plant workers are not allowed to be exposed to more than 50 millisieverts of radiation a year. But managers at Build-up, a company that provided insulation... 

Portuguese workers protest in a demonstration against the government’s austerity measures, Lisbon, June 16, 2012. People in Portugal have staged a protest rally against the government’s austerity measures imposed to help cap the country’s public debt. Thousands took to the streets of Lisbon on Saturday following a much larger rally in the northern city of Oporto last week. They condemned... 

A view of the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. For the first time since the outbreak of Japan’s nuclear crisis, workers have been able to enter the quake and tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant. On Thursday, Japanese workers entered the reactor No.1 at the battered Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the facility’s operator Tokyo Electric...