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On February 20, the Versailles public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation “to check on the working conditions” of a Renault employee who, aged only 38, killed himself at his home four days earlier, leaving a suicide note referring to the pressures on the job. The death came almost a year to the day after Carlos Ghosn, Renault’s new boss, launched the “Renault Contract 2009” revival plan....

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Friday evening, Kerfalla Camara, the chief of staff of the Guinean army, announced in a radio broadcast that he has ordered the end of the general strike and the resumption of work on Monday, by requisitioning all the workers in the administration, in commercial establishments and in private enterprises!...

Strikes and protests by Egyptian workers in several industries have continued for several weeks. The strike movement began at several textile plants in December, before spreading along the belt of the Nile delta. At the time of writing, more than 50,000 workers in textile, cement and poultry production have been involved in the strike wave....

The high injury rate at U.S. meatpacking plants is emerging as a big issue in the struggle to unionize that industry. The drive, among a largely Latino immigrant workforce, seeks to reverse the 25-year downward trend in unionization of the meatpacking industry which has been swallowed by monopolies intent on exploiting immigrant labor....

The New Zealand Labour government is preparing to launch a cheap labour scheme for seasonal workers from the Pacific Islands to fill shortages in the country’s commodity-producing industries. The Recognised Seasonal Employer policy, announced last October and due to begin in April, will provide temporary work permits for up to 5,000 Pacific Island workers each year....

Four days after its official beginning on Monday, the general strike continues in Guinea. The production of C.G.B, the second leading Bauxite producer in the world, has been halted, the workers also having stopped the trains carrying ore, while the production of the other consortium continues to grind towards a halt (provoking incendiary inflation in the prices of bauxite and aluminum on the world market). All economic activities are paralysed....

DaimlerChrysler on Wednesday announced plans to slash 13,000 jobs in its latest restructuring plan for the North American Chrysler Group. The cuts will have a devastating impact in areas of the country already ravaged by the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in auto and other manufacturing industries....

Today is Valentine's Day. Chocolate, flowers, diamonds. How can gifts that bring so much happiness have come from so much pain? We begin our coverage with a look at the flower industry. Nora Ferm of the International Labor Rights Fund talks about a new report on labor conditions at US-owned flower plantations in Colombia and Ecuador. We’re also joined by Beatriz Fuentes, President of the Sintrasplendor Union at Dole’s largest flower plantation in Colombia which has become the site of a growin...

Today, the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) called on the government and corporate America to address the underlying causes of gender-based harassment, which accounted for nearly one-third of all complaints...