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Walmart worker strikes go viral, hitting 28 stores in 12 states
Walmart workers who recently went on strike in Illinois and California appear to have inspired some of their fellow big box employees, and now it looks like the movement is going viral. Labor leaders said Tuesday, just one day before Walmart’s annual shareholder meeting, that workers at 28 stores in…
Foxconn plant closes after brawl
A brawl involving as many as 2,000 workers forced Foxconn to close its Taiyuan plant in northern China late on Sunday, and left a number of people needing hospital treatment. “The fight is over now … we’re still investigating the cause of the fight and the number of workers involved,” said…
Hundreds of workers blockade S. African platinum mines
Hundreds of people barricaded roads leading to a mine of the world’s top platinum producer Anglo American as labour unrest spread in South Africa’s key industry, police said. “There is a strike, mine workers are gathering,” police spokesman Thulani Ngubane told AFP. “They are rioting, barricading the roads with tyres,…
Rioting Zambian coal miners at Chinese-owned mine kill Chinese manager
Zambian coal miners killed a Chinese mine manager and injured his colleague in a riot over wages at a mine known for tensions with the Chinese investor in southern Zambia, state media reported. “Wu Shengzai, aged 50, has been killed by protesting workers after being hit by a trolley which…
Japan firm ‘told workers to lie’ about radiation dose
A subcontractor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant told workers to lie about possible high radiation exposure in an apparent effort to keep its contract, reports said Saturday. An executive at construction firm Build-Up in December told about 10 of its workers to cover their dosimeters, used to measure cumulative…
Workers rescue woman from massive train crash
Two management workers in Newark, Delaware rescued a female driver just in time Thursday morning from an on-coming train after her car was stuck on the surrounding tracks. According to WCAU-TV, the workers convinced the woman to leave her car after being unable to remove it from the tracks. Within…
Foxconn plans to increase their workers’ salaries
Foxconn, the Taiwanese company manufacturing products for prominent tech companies including Apple, is responding to major criticism for the harsh treatment of its employees by saying they will raise their salaries. According to The New York Times, Foxconn announced Saturday it would increase their workers pay from 16 to 25…
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