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UPS worker Gerardo explained what conditions at UPS are like and what he and other workers are demanding in the next contract.

Esteban Chavez Jr., 24, a delivery driver for UPS, died in his truck while delivering packages last week.

Brazilian workers stage strikes and protests against COVID-19 pandemic and social crisis Workers have staged strikes and protests across Brazil against the murderous, uncontrolled spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing social crisis that has driven tens of millions into poverty. The weeks-long strikes by teachers in São Paulo against deadly school reopenings are being joined by a growing number of work stoppages by bus drivers, oil and railway workers, delivery app workers and other s...

LOGISTICS workers will use strike action if needed to defend pay and conditions against bosses’ “creeping culture” of fire-and-rehire tactics, the Unite union pledged today. Warning that shop stewards across the distribution and retail sectors were reporting attempts by employers to “salami slice” pay and conditions, blaming “market conditions,” the union signalled its intention to draw “a line in the sand” against the practice. Unite reps at a number of companies, including ...

Corn Futures Touch Fresh 7-Year High on Roaring China Demand Bloomberg 1/27/2021 Kim Chipman and Nicholas Larkin (Bloomberg) -- Corn prices in Chicago reached a seven-year high with China’s appetite for the grain stoking global supply concerns. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday unveiled corn export sales to China of 680,000 tons, as well as 132,000 tons of soybeans. That’s on top of a 1.36-million-ton corn export sale to China reported Tuesday, marking the As...

By Reuters Staff (Adds oil workers union) SAO PAULO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A nationwide Brazilian truckers strike gathered momentum on Tuesday as a key oil worker union lent its support to the upcoming action that could cripple the country’s economy, which is still reeling from the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. Brazil’s National Confederation of Transport and Logistics Workers (CNTTL) on Tuesday urged its 800,000 members to join a Feb. 1 trucker strike led by the National Association of...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read SAO PAULO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Brazil’s National Confederation of Transport and Logistics Workers (CNTTL) said on Tuesday it urged all of its 800,000 members to join a Feb. 1 nationwide trucker strike. (Reporting by Aluisio Alves Editing by Chris Reese)

Behind algorithms. local fishermen in chardon lake in northeastern china have landed a huge hall for their annual outdoor winter auction its part of a traditional festival that dates back a thousand years and it tracks tourists as well as massive online orders million kilos of chardon like fish have been ordered online by eager foodies this year thats already seventy percent of the expected seasonal catch. amazon employees at a major distribution center in germany went on strike this week the ve...

Hide behind algorithms. local fishermen in chardon lake in northeastern china have landed a huge haul for their annual outdoor winter auction its part of a traditional festival that dates back a thousand years and it tracks tourists as well as massive online orders million kilos of chardon like fish have been ordered online by eager foodies this year thats already seventy percent of the expected seasonal catch. amazon employees at a major distribution center in germany went on strike this week t...