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Highlights from Tuesday's newspapers

The Public Servants Association intends to intensify the strike action in view of SITA’s reluctance to respond to its demands.

The Guardian reports Uber’s warning that Australians may pay up to 85% more to have a meal delivered if gig economy workers are treated as employees under proposed workplace legislation is an admission that delivery rider workers are being woefully underpaid, experts have said. Uber supports the Fair Work Commission setting minimum standards but made the claim about price rises in its submission to a Senate inquiry into the legislation, to demonstrate what it said were ‘significant concerns�...

The possibility of a strike became reality, as a majority of Seoul Metro union members voted for a general strike plan to counter staff cuts, the collective negotiation team announced Monday. As Seoul Metro operates Seoul Subway Line Nos. 1 to 8 and a portion of Line No. 9, tensions are rising over the possible inconvenience to commuters. The collective negotiation team -- comprising representatives of the Korean Pub...

Company joins NGO focused on protecting against worker exploitation

If proposed workplace overhaul leads to higher delivery prices, it reflects ‘current below-acceptable levels of pay’, say experts

A text about the wave of strikes which swept South Africa starting in late 2012, focusing on the role of the miners. Also published as PDF, MOBI and EPUB files.

Flash Coffee told its workers on Tuesday that it would be shutting all 11 Singapore outlets the next day.

The chairman of Qantas has displayed incredible hubris by refusing to leave his post in a timely manner.

We asked lobby groups and unions what they make of Abela's defence of a scandal