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Outsourced cleaning workers with poor conditions and bad pay face being left behind as the government renationalises the railways, RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey has warned. Dempsey told Novara Media …
Labour Is Renationalising the Railways. Cleaners Are Being Left Behind Read More
On a smog-choked late November morning in Delhi, a crowd of workers, union leaders and political allies gathered under a haze of winter pollution to send a message to one …
New laws in the Indian states of Rajasthan, Karnataka and Telangana advance app workers’ rights. Read More
Nigel Farage’s party faces embarrassment today as new figures appear to discredit Reform UK’s claims about ‘wasteful’ public sector spending on diversity schemes. Farage’s party has repeatedly claimed that it could …
Nigel Farage’s ‘£7 Billion DEI Savings’ Don’t Actually Exist Read More
For Enoch Aikins, a political economist who focuses on Africa, the topic of sending money home to relatives is personal. “I can use myself as an example, as somebody that comes …
Trump remittance tax to hit Africans hard Read More
A labor rights group sued Starbucks on Thursday, alleging that it sourced coffee from a major cooperative in Brazil whose member farms were cited for keeping workers in slave-like conditions. International Rights Advocates filed …
Labor group sues Starbucks, saying it ignores slave-like conditions for workers in Brazil Read More
Mary Glantz was in her room at a Hampton Inn in Columbia, South Carolina, last Friday night during a trip visiting friends when her phone began pinging furiously with messages …
As dusk falls in Washington on Fridays, the firings begin Read More
Natalie had just dropped off a customer at the Ritz Hotel in central London when her phone started aggressively bleeping at her with offers of new fares. “I couldn’t concentrate. …
Taken for a Ride: Inside Uber’s New Race to the Bottom Read More
101 East meets the job seekers caught up in China’s youth unemployment crisis. China is experiencing a prolonged economic slowdown, which has led to a youth unemployment crisis. In 2023, …
China’s youth face growing job crisis Read More
You’d be forgiven if you passed by St. James Towers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, or Southbridge Towers in Lower Manhattan without noting their exceptional qualities or sensing the tumult within. The …
Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them Read More
Brazil has emerged as a champion of tech regulation among emerging economies. It enacted an Internet Bill of Rights in 2014, which established protections on net neutrality, freedom of expression, …
Brazil’s push for comprehensive AI regulation Read More