Tag Archives : workers

Online jobs are ever becoming not only popular but important as well both for the workers and the employers. oDesk has launched an interesting program called “oDesk Challenge” that help young startups collate together teams of staffers rather quickly and efficiently as well. oDesk is a site, which helps companies recruit and coordinate online [...]

There is a new breed of dissidents in China today as the country ‘tolerates a safer wave of protests’ 20 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. The ordinary Chinese are much more critical of human rights now and some of them have been keen to defend such rights. On June 3 and 4, 1989, a military crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s [...]

The United States has gone far in protecting its domestic labor force and employees of its offshore companies. The U.S. is one of the very few countries where workers’ rights are fully recognized, upheld, and protected. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) law stipulates that an employee who experiences discrimination can seek solutions such as back [...]

For the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), it is the young people, specifically young workers, that will shape and sway the direction of the future of the union movement. The ITUC is an umbrella organization composed of the national unions of several countries. The ITUC laments that young workers are victims of lack of employment, irregular [...]

When workers formally band together and organize themselves in order to protect their rights and welfare, a labor union is born. A trade union exists primarily to negotiate with employers what are acceptably best in wage scales, working hours, workplace conditions, and workers’ benefits. The matter of employment is central to the mission and function [...]