PENSACOLA, Fla. – Eleven Domino’s employees hoping to make a little more money and get a bigger slice of the profits have formed the nation’s first union of pizza delivery drivers.
Industrial nations are looking for cheap labor to increase their profit margins. Ways to do this are to pay low wages, use child labor and have them work long hours with no overtime pay. Health and retirement benefits must also be eliminated.
Electricians, bartenders and hotel desk clerks in Honolulu make more than the national average in wages, according to a study released yesterday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
WORKPLACE relations Minister Kevin Andrews today warned companies they could not bring foreign workers to Australia on foreign worker visas and pay them less than minimum wages.
New weekly jobless claims have fallen below 1,000 again, and the latest weekly count of total jobless claims is also down, the Hawaii Department of Labor & Industrial Relations reported Thursday.
FEDERAL Labor leader Kim Beazley is challenging Prime Minister John Howard to stand up for Australian jobs after a move by American Express to place low-paid Japanese workers in its local call centres.
THE Tasmanian Opposition has demanded a Labor MP apologise to Prime Minister John Howard for claiming the Federal Government's new Work Choices industrial relations laws contributed to a man's suicide.
A TASMANIAN MP said the Federal Government's workplace relations laws contributed to a man's suicide. In state parliament yesterday, Labor MP Heather Butler named a Tasmanian man who she said killed himself 12 days after he lost his job.
A political furore has erupted over a Tasmanian politician's claim that the Federal Government's industrial relations laws were responsible for a man's suicide.
The number of initial unemployment insurance claims filed in Missouri in August fell 4 percent, while weekly claims filed in the month were nearly flat, the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Division of Employment Security reported Tuesday.