Insecurity and precarious work and what to do about it
This report suggests a number of challenges which face trade unions, in the light of growing numbers of ‘non-standard’ workers engaged in ‘precarious’ employment.
Women are quitting the IT industry because the gender pay gap widens
The percentage of female workers in the IT is decreasing. This is bad news for an industry that is suffering a skill shortage.
Financial crisis impact on hedge funds and Private Equity
Turmoil in the US mortgage market, a result of wider financial irrationality, has sparked a sharp contraction of credit markets, leading to meltdowns in a number of hedge funds. Some private equity funds that have made...
Verdi criticises Metro for social dumping, attack on agreements
The Metro Group's hypermarket chain Real will open a new store where wages and employment conditions are below the normal collective agreement levels. To make this possible, the company has creat...
Are “extreme” jobs the cause of lack of diversity?
Why private equity is not good for TeleDanmark
This is essential reading for all, it details what Private Equity is doing to TDC and the economic consequences for Denmark and makes some suggestions on what regulators and government should do ...
E.Land - the truth behind the 'Californian lifestyle' bid in the US
We guess that this is not the vision that E.Land has of the Who.A.U. stores, soon to open in the United States. Today's reality at the company's Homever, NewCore and Kim's Club shops in central...
Trade unions step up their solidarity with Korean E.Land workers
In Turkey, members of UNI Commerce affiliate Tez-Koop-IS have staged a solidarity demonstration for their shop worker colleagues in Korea. The Homever, New Core and Kim's Club workers' trade un...
E.Land destroys its new American 'Who.A.U.' brand
E.Land destroys its new American 'Who.A.U.' brand by brutal treatment of young women workers in Korea
The infamous Korean retailer E.Land has announced that it will launch a chain of fashion stores in the United States. The first of fifty projected stores will open in Connecticut, at Stamford Tow...