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Sep 25 2022
Headline Roundup
Italy Votes on New Government, Reevaluating Place in European Order
In Italy, voters are heading to the polls in an election that outlets are painting as a turning point for the country. After the government of the former prime minister, Mario Draghi, collapsed in July from infighting, a new coalition from the right is predicted to take power in the midst of economic and social turmoil. Reporting on the election has focused heavily on Giorgia Meloni, the
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Jan 31 2023
News
‘We will figure out how to fire you’: how corporate America is hitting back against unions
Workers at a Trader Joe’s store in Louisville, Kentucky, are now pushing to become the third store at the trendy US supermarket chain to unionize since 2022.
Connor Hovey, a worker and organizer at the Louisville store, said unionizing efforts began as other high-profile union organizing efforts such as at Louisville’s Heine Brothers, a local coffee shop chain, were taking off. Like
The Guardian
Jan 22 2023
Analysis
Belgium’s knotty politics gives EU’s recovery fund its trickiest test yet
Belgium's notoriously messy political system is giving the EU a real headache in the way it doles out recovery fund cash.
In a story that embraces accusations of blackmail, a Flemish liberal prime minister, a French-speaking Socialist pensions minister, the mayor of an old industrial city and a workers' party that's not even in government, the country is at serious risk of missing out
Politico
Aug 12 2020
Data
Unions
* Labor unions are organizations that negotiate with employers on behalf of employees.[1]
* The phrase “trade union” is sometimes used as a synonym for “labor union,” but it is also used in a more narrow sense to signify “a labor union of workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry.”[2] [3]
* Federal law defines
Just Facts
May 26 2022
News
Sanctions against Russia are 'draining' country's economy and Putin's 'war machine,' European Commission president says
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday that the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia over its war with Ukraine are "draining" the Russian economy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin's "war machine."
"Ukraine must win this war," von der Leyen said during an address at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland.
"And Putin's
Insider
Sep 09 2015
News
European Official Calls for Continent to Take In 160,000 Migrants
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, called on the bloc on Wednesday to accept 160,000 migrants, imploring leaders not to remain indifferent in the face of one of Europe’s toughest humanitarian challenges in decades.
New York Times (News)
Sep 02 2015
News
Migrant Crisis Gives Germany Familiar Role in Another European Drama
When the authorities in Hungary prevented hundreds of migrants who had overwhelmed the central Keleti station in Budapest from boarding trains for Germany, it nearly set off a riot on Tuesday. Outside the station, the migrants were chanting: “Germany! Germany!”
That is where so many of them want to go.
In this summer’s migrant crisis — as with the unfinished debt crisis in Greece
New York Times (News)
Jan 04 2023
News
What happened to the Apple store union campaign?
Earlier this year, Apple seemed poised to join Starbucks in a nationwide unionizing blitz. Two stores filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board while dozens more began to organize. In June, the first Apple Store in the country, in Towson, Maryland, voted to unionize.
Apple’s response was unequivocal: the tech firm hired anti-union lawyers at Littler Mendelson. Then it
The Verge
Jan 04 2023
News
Video game workers establish Microsoft's first union
Employees at Microsoft’s video game subsidiary ZeniMax Studios made history Tuesday, becoming the first official group of workers at the technology company to formally unionize.
ZeniMax is a video game production company with studios in Maryland and Texas. The company owns Bethesda Softworks, the producer of franchises including The Elder Scrolls, DOOM and Fallout.
The
Fox Business
Apr 07 2022
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U.S. Shale Gas, LNG Firms Meet With European Countries Over Supply Crisis
At least a dozen U.S. shale gas executives met on Wednesday with European energy officials to discuss expanding U.S. fuel supplies to Europe amid a scramble to replace Russian imports.
The group met in Houston with foreign affairs and economic ministers and commercial buyers looking to reduce their imports of Russian oil, coal and liquefied natural gas over its invasion of Ukraine,
International Business Times