Labour’s promised reforms to workers rights could face “significant changes” before taking effect, employment lawyers have warned.
A boycott targeting Loblaw is gaining momentum online, with what could be thousands of shoppers taking their money elsewhere in May. It’s the latest sign of Canadians’ mounting frustration with the major grocers, which have been under political and public scrutiny for rising food prices and profits. “We don’t want to struggle anymore,” said Emily Johnson, a mental health and addictions worker in Milton, Ont., and one of the boycott’s organizers. Johnson and others started organizing the...
Reports say Sir Keir Starmer may risk union support and bow to pressure from business to amend new dealWatering down Labour’s plan to strengthen workers’ rights would be disastrous for the party’s relations with the unions and could cost votes at the general election, the president of the Trades Union Congress has warned.Amid reports that Sir Keir Starmer may bow to pressure from business and amend important parts of his “new deal for workers”, Matt Wrack said the Labour leader risked causing...
Union leader Sharon Graham says Keir Starmer risks ‘limping into Downing Street’Labour’s biggest union backer has warned it may divert election funding earmarked for the party, amid claims that Keir Starmer is diluting plans to overhaul workers’ rights.In an interview with the Observer, Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, said the Labour leader risked “limping into Downing Street” if he backed down in the face of intense lobbying from businesses. Continue reading
In a mad mix of game-show glitter and marketing flash, Airbnb is offering customers a chance to spend a night in a Paris museum, stay in houses mocked up to look like movie settings, or sleep surrounded by eight Ferrari racing cars. Those and other chimerical listings are part of a splashy new campaign by []
(Associated Press) – Airbnb says it’s going to give customers a chance at overnight stays in a
More than a thousand hotel workers whose union contracts are expiring this summer planned to march in downtown San Francisco on May Day Wednesday. The workers are demanding raises, better healthcare coverage, and improved workloads on their shifts. Shawn Chitnis reports. Website: http://kpix.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kpixtv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KPIXtv
The Space Launch System -- SLS -- program in Huntsville is facing slowdowns after NASA pushed back its Artemis II and III launches.
The Resolution Foundation think-tank said three-quarters of employers use 'flexible' contracts to help manage ups and downs in customer demand, keeping costs down.
Sergei Oleg Yershov and Olga Romanov have been granted permission to restore Bee House in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire to its former glory.
Conde Nast union workers were threatening to protest the Met Gala. Staffers pledged to do 'whatever it takes' to get their first union contract. Negotiators reached a deal in the early morning hours of the coveted event
A utopia-like space is set to be launched on March 11 in downtown San Francisco. City Campus was created by four community builders'. It is supposed to have everything that people need within a 15-minute walk