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Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the world. The retailer's size means it has huge influence on labor standards. A Dartmouth historian profiles the women who are pushing Walmart to improve.
The new regulation will allow millions more U.S. workers to qualify for overtime pay. Our experts assess the impact.
Moves to criminalise sex work are facing tough opposition from those in the industry.
Uber's move to establish a drivers association is akin to the 'yellow unions' of the 1930s.
The Fair Work Act delivers a much more peculiar system of collective bargaining than many realise. It has outcomes that contradict the hopes and fears of both sides of the IR debate.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that two-thirds of all industrial disputes in Australia are in construction, and that construction industrial disputes are up since the ABCC closed. Is that right?
With union membership at just 15% of the workforce and declining, trade unions are looking at new ways to build their membership bases.
Presidential candidates are using voter anger to fuel more divisions and discord rather than to start a conversation about the collapse of collective bargaining.
The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) said that casual employment has not increased in Australia for the past 18 years. Is that right?
It’s been more than 40 years since a French sex workers strike kicked off a lively global human rights movement, but their legacy lives on.
Unions are in a self-described crisis. The well-known tale of union decline in Australia continues with the latest figures revealing less than 15% of workers are members of unions, with that dropping to…
The UK's productivity problem has the country lagging behind its G7 peers. An overlooked solution is to empower workers.
Bring back collective bargaining to help fix the developing teacher crisis.
A case before the Supreme Court could deal a major blow to unions, highlighting the need for leaders of business and labor to negotiate a new New Deal.
Labor leaders sometimes seem to concede defeat too easily, yet workers are still fighting for their place in the middle class.
They employ thousands and are highly commercial, and increasingly their staff are turning to unions.
Air France directors weren't the only ones left exposed, after protests over jobs turned violent.
Evidence shows that the rise of women in British workplaces has coincided with the decline or organised labour. If only the unions would face up to it.
Many young people are part of the precariat – in low-paid insecure work.
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