Workers Struggle News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The US autoworkers’ union plans to bring more employees under its protection after record deals with automakers last year

In August, low-skilled workers saw their wages rise by 7.58%, trailing 2.34 percentage points behind the 9.92% inflation rate, according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data. This wage-inflation gap has persisted for 19 months.

Extreme heat and flooding could erase $65 billion in apparel export earnings from four Asian countries by 2030, as workers struggle under high temperatures and factories close, research from Schroders and Cornell University showed on Wednesday. The study also mapped out the supply chains of six unidentified global apparel brands operating in the four countries studied - Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pakistan and Vietnam - and found all six would be hit materially. The findings should act as a wake-up call to both an apparel industry facing significant financial costs, and to investors confronted wit...

The one-hour walk-out highlights the dire conditions facing news writers, and the need to unite their struggle with ongoing strikes in Hollywood and New York.

Chief warmonger Adam Schiff, one of several Democrats who voted to ban railroad workers' right to strike last year, is among the politicians promoted by the Writers Guild leaders.