US: Workers score big victory against Starbucks at Labour Board New York, NY - The Industrial Workers of the World Starbucks Workers Union won a watershed victory yesterday...
Asda fined for anti-union bribe attempt The supermarket giant Asda has been ordered to pay £850,000 in compensation to employees for unlawfully offering them a financial inducement to give up their union rights in a damning judgment by an employment tribunal yesterday.
Wal-Mart boss faces jail for tax evasion Thomas Coughlin, the former vice-chairman of Wal-Mart may be jailed for up to 28 years and fined up to £750,000 after pleading guilty to fiddling his expenses.
The Bolkestein Directive: Social dumping and international challenges The labour movement has found internationally, it seems, an issue around which to mobilize: the Directive on Services in the Internal Market, otherwise known as the Bolkestein Directive.
Sex workers: GMB wins first ever unfair dismissal case An employment tribunal has just found that GMB member Mrs Irene Everitt, who worked on live adult chat lines, was unfairly dismissed by her employer Datapro Services Limited.
NYC transport workers fighting cuts fined A judge has imposed a $1m (£570,000) per day fine on New York's main transport union for a strike that has brought city transport to a standstill.
White Rose trial sentencing transcripts Partial transcripts of the sentencing of German anti-nazi group White Rose members Hans and Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Kurt Huber, Wilhelm Graf and other supporters of the group in 1943.
