Posts Tagged ‘bargaining’

5 lessons from UPS workers’ successful bargaining

While the union did not win everything it wanted, it secured a majority of its demands in what it called “the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS.” Source

Richmond Educators Are First In Virginia To Win Bargaining Rights

Above Photo: Richmond is the first school district in Virginia to reinstate collective bargaining rights, after the legislature in 2020 lifted the state’s 43-year prohibition on collective bargaining for local government workers. Vernon Snow. Teachers and other public school employees in Richmond, Virginia, won a major victory in December when the city’s school board, in […]

Algeria: Morocco used gas pipeline as a bargaining chip in Western Sahara issue  

Algeria stopped using the Maghreb–Europe Gas Pipeline to supply Spain with gas as a result of the “aggressive practices of the Kingdom of Morocco”, media sources have quoted officials saying. The contract for the use of the pipeline ended on 31 October with Algeria switching to the Medgaz undersea pipeline, which does not pass-through Morocco. […]

The Enormous Impact Of Eroded Collective Bargaining On Wages

Above photo: Danny Johnston/AP. A major factor depressing wage growth for middle earners and driving the growth of wage inequality over the last four decades has been the erosion of collective bargaining. Indeed, the only factor more responsible for weak wage growth for the typical worker is the excessive unemployment perpetrated by central bank policymakers’ high […]

Information Interruptus: Bing, Google and the News Media Bargaining Code

It’s looking a touch quixotic, but the News Media Bargaining Code has become Australia’s weapon of choice in attempting to redistribute proceeds from big tech into the coffers of a withering fourth estate.  It has now reached a point of sufficient concern for Google as to become threatening, winding its way to a Senate Committee […]

Iran is amassing bargaining chips ahead of the Biden presidency

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Israel has amassed 68 Palestinian bodies as bargaining chips since 2016

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City Workers Push For Collective Bargaining Rights

By Brett Hall and Jane Alvarez-Wertz, WAVY. November 19, 2020 Above photo: WAVY. Virginia Beach, VA – While local government employees are not legally allowed to engage in collective bargaining in the commonwealth until May 1, a group of workers from public utilities and public works making known their desire to have “a seat at […]

Israel holding bodies of Palestinians as bargaining chips

Maureen Clare Murphy Rights and Accountability 14 March 2018 Palestinians call on Israel to transfer the bodies of slain Palestinians in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, April 2017. Ahmad Al-Bazz ActiveStills Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has passed a law that allows Israeli police to withhold the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces until […]

Israel condemned for using bodies as 'bargaining chips'

by Jaclynn Ashly Human rights groups have condemned Israeli decision to withhold bodies of five Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli attack on a tunnel dug under the Gaza-Israel border last week. Israeli authorities announced on Sunday that the army had uncovered the bodies of the five men – identified by Islamic Jihad as […]

Israel uses fighters trapped in Gaza tunnel as "bargaining chips"

Maureen Clare Murphy Rights and Accountability 2 November 2017 The body of Muhammad Marwan al-Agha, a Hamas naval commando, is taken to a hospital after he was killed on a tunnel demolition on 30 October. Yasser Qudih APA images The military wing of Islamic Jihad announced on Friday that the bodies of five of its fighters […]

Israel using fighters trapped in Gaza tunnel as "bargaining chips"

Maureen Clare Murphy Rights and Accountability 2 November 2017 The body of Muhammad Marwan al-Agha, a Hamas naval commando, is taken to a hospital after he was killed on a tunnel demolition on 30 October. Yasser Qudih APA images Human rights groups are calling on Israel’s high court to allow Palestinian rescue workers to recover five […]

When Race Tips The Scales In Plea Bargaining

New research finds that prosecutors give white defendants better deals than black defendants. TWO OFFICERS ESCORTED a young black man into the courtroom, bringing him in handcuffs from a holding cell in the back called “the pen.” They placed him beside his public defender and stepped away. So far, things were routine. The prosecutor had offered […]

Don’t be complacent about Australia’s top credit rating: Treasury secretary Fraser

Michelle Grattan (TC) : Australia should not be complacent about maintaining its top credit rating, which depends on achieving budget repair and a more diverse economy, Treasury secretary John Fraser has said. Treasury secretary John Fraser says if Australia were to permanently reduce net debt, it would have to achieve sustained structural budget improvements. Lukas […]

Biological Weapons: Bargaining With the Devil

  PART FOUR H. Patricia HynesT r u t h o u t August 19, 2011 The earliest recorded use of biological warfare was that of Romans putting dead horses into an enemy’s water supply. Other documented examples include combatants hurling plague-ridden human corpses into enemy garrisons; giving blankets contaminated with smallpox to hostile forces; […]

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