Euro coins are seen in front of a displayed Greece flag in this picture illustration, June 29, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo Euro zone finance ministers hope to reach a compromise on Greek reforms on Monday in a final bid to get International Monetary Fu... More »
Planes stand on the tarmac during a pilots strike of German airline Lufthansa at Frankfurt airport, Germany, November 23, 2016. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski German pilots union VC has announced further strikes at Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) for Tuesday and Wednesday this we... More »
A Wells Fargo bank is seen in Del Mar, California January 17, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Blake Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) has fired hundreds of employees with Wall Street licenses for improper sales practices, three U.S. senators said on Thursday. More »
Tunisia’s powerful UGTT labor union threatened on Thursday to hold a general strike and called protests against the government’s plans to freeze public wage increases as part of measures to control the budget deficit. More »
Fiat Chrysler assembly workers work on a partially assembled minivan at the Windsor Assembly Plant in Windsor, Ontario, February 9, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook Canadian manufacturing workers at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCHA.MI) (FCAU.N) voted on Sunday to app... More »
Cars pass under an overpass at the General Motors Car assembly plant in Oshawa, June 1, 2012. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File Photo Canada’s autoworkers’ union Unifor and General Motors Co (GM.N) made little progress resolving the key issue of new investment in contr... More »
General Motors auto workers prepare rows of the new Chevrolet Camaro for delivery, at the company’s Oshawa Ontario facility April 8, 2009. REUTERS/Fred Thornhill/File Photo The union representing most Canadian autoworkers has voted for a strike mandate, it sai... More »
PARIS Gangs of masked youths smashed windows and hurled stones at riot police as thousands of people marched through Paris on Tuesday in protest at a planned change of labor laws that would make hiring and firing easier. Police fired dozens of volleys of tearg... More »
SYDNEY Australia’s parliament returned for a special sitting on Monday to debate crucial labor reform bills which are likely to be blocked in the upper house Senate, leading to the dissolution of both houses and an election on July 2. Prime Minister Malcolm Tu... More »
CUBATAO, Brazil On a warm September morning in 2014, the 10-man board of Brazilian steelmaker Usiminas met on the ninth floor of a blue glass tower in Sao Paulo. In the room, the board members grappled over whether to fire the company’s chief executive and two... More »
PARIS French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was to meet student and youth leaders on Monday in an attempt to defuse opposition to proposed labor reforms that have triggered public demonstrations and a nocturnal protest movement in several cities. The labor bill s... More »
HELSINKI If one fist bump could endanger Finland’s increasingly stressed tradition of consensus politics, then Prime Minister Juha Sipila and a cabinet colleague may just have achieved this dubious distinction. In a nod to popular culture, a smiling Sipila and... More »
NEW YORK Wealth managers in the United States are cutting fees, relying more on technology to give advice and reducing the minimum amounts clients can hold in their brokerage accounts, all in preparation a new rule governing how they advise retirement savers. ... More »
BUENOS AIRES In power just two months, Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri is already facing labor unrest, with a national public sector strike planned for Wednesday as workers protest rocketing inflation and job cuts. Unions representing hospital staffers an... More »
CARACAS Employees at a Pepsi-Cola Venezuela plant have been freed by the government, which had detained them for halting operations for lack of raw materials, Empresas Polar, owner of the local Pepsi (PEP.N) division, said late on Sunday. “Pepsi-Cola Venezuela... More »
DETROIT Negotiators for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Co reached a tentative agreement on undisclosed terms for a new four-year labor contract, averting a threatened strike, the union said late on Sunday night. The proposed deal will now go to a c... More »
An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that more than 80 calls were made to ambulances by Sports Direct employees at its headquarters in Derbyshire for “life-threatening illnesses”. The figures, which came from a Freedom of... More »
WASHINGTON The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are set to wade into contentious social matters in their new term beginning on Monday including affirmative action, union powers and voting rights, and could add major cases involving abortion and birth co... More »
MOBILE, Ala, Airbus Group NV (AIR.PA) threw a party for its new U.S. workers ahead of the formal opening Monday of its first commercial jet factory in the United States, and representatives of the machinists union joined the crowd. The International Associatio... More »
NEW ORLEANS A last-minute action by the Louisiana Supreme Court saved New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu from being placed under weekend house arrest over a decades-old dispute with local firefighters who are owed $75 million in back wages. The standoff arose fr... More »
ACCRA Ghana faced down the first major challenge to an IMF austerity program on Monday when doctors suspended a three-week strike but a bigger test of President John Mahama’s commitment will come next year as he fights for reelection. The International Monetar... More »
NEW YORK Verizon Communications Inc and the unions representing its wireline unit employees on the U.S. East Coast said work will go on and talks continue after their current contract expired. Since June, the unions have been in talks with Verizon over the com... More »
FRANKFURT Talks to resolve a pay dispute at German airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) have made enough progress to lift the threat of any immediate work stoppages, flight attendants’ union UFO said early on Tuesday. Lufthansa had faced a June 30 deadline to make conc... More »
