Full Coverage: Labour

29.04.2005 TOKYO, Apr 29 (IPS) - It can be seen as an International Labour Day bonus for those trying to seek their fortunes in Japan. Beginning May 1, Tokyo will be less fussy with unskilled foreign workers and start opening its labour market doors to them to ward off a looming demographic crisis.

28.04.2005 Chaque année, les membres du SCFP dans tout le Canada organisent des activités, le 28 avril, pour reconnaître leurs consoeurs et confrères victimes d’accidents du travail mortels et non mortels et de maladies professionnelles. Nous vous encourageons à prendre quelques minutes, le 28 avril prochain, à 11 heures, pour réfléchir sur le prix ultime que les travailleuses et travailleurs doivent payer pour gagner leur vie

28.04.2005 The trade unions continue their blockade of the gates of “Mother Teresa” Airport in Tirana. They protest the manner in which they were fired, without prior notification.

25.04.2005 Réunis en assemblée générale le 15 avril, les membres du Syndicat des étudiantes et étudiants employés de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), affilié à la FTQ, ont accepté avec enthousiasme leur première convention collective, conclue après quatre mois de négociations intensives. Ce syndicat de 2 000 membres regroupe les assistants d'enseignement et de recherche. Premier du genre au Québec, il est rattaché à l'Alliance de la fonction publique du Canada (AFPC).

20.04.2005 A Wal-Mart CEO gets paid 871 times more than a U.S. worker and 50,000 times more than workers in China or Bangladesh. The average Wal-Mart employee must rely on government healthcare, food and housing. The Institute for Policy Studies shows us how the worldÂ’s largest company perpertrates this wage gap.

18.04.2005 The new free trade regime for textiles is creating discomfort in US and Europe, faced with competition from China. It's easy to forget the plight of workers in Bangladesh who suffer additionally from poor standards of factory safety.

18.04.2005 Should labour migration policy be determined by reference to numbers and tickboxes or to real people with human rights? The debate is not unique to the UK election; the European Commission prefers the tickbox approach and is under pressure from campaigners to mend its ways.

12.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 12 (OneWorld) - The chief executives of major U.S. corporations enjoyed double-digit pay raises last year, adding to a record of ''jaw-dropping'' compensation largely undisturbed by recent years' falling profits and share prices and a wave of scandals involving management chicanery, the country's leading labor federation said in a new survey.

12.04.2005 Tesco will announce its annual profits today, results which will doubtless satisfy the shareholders. ActionAid reports that these margins are coming not from those of us at the top of the chain in the supermarkets but from casual women labourers on South African farms whose conditions are being squeezed below poverty thresholds.