The International Union of Foodworkers is urging Coca-Cola to stop harsh, blatantly anti-union practices at a bottling plant in Indonesia.
The union says Coca-Cola management is well aware of what's happening and have the power to stop it.
The Indonesian Coca-Cola bottler is trying to stamp out independent and democratic unions at the plant.
Canada's Radio Labour reports that global unemployment is expected to continue to climb through 2017.
International Labor Organization (ILO) General Secretary Guy Ryder says the trend is higher joblessness.
"I think the major message arising from our annual report on employment trends is that despite the marginal improvement in economic growth rates foreseen for 2017, this will be insufficient to prevent a continuing rise in global unemployment.
23,000 coal miner retirees and their dependents are losing their retiree health care and pensions unless Congress votes by the end of April to pass the Miners Protection Act.
Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell - the Senate Majority Leader - hasn’t even scheduled a vote on the Miners Protection Act that would save the United Mine Workers of America pension and health plan.
Trump's order rolling back the Clean Power Plan won't save coal jobs and is a false choice between jobs and a clean environment. That's the position of the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of environmental groups and labor unions.
Kim Glas is Executive Director of the Blue Green Alliance.
U.S. based Norwegian flight attendants are joining the Association of Flight Attendants CWA.
The executive board of the Norwegian Cabin Crew Association had agreed to join AFA-CWA pending a vote by their membership. AFA-CWA says 59 percent of the U.S. based Norwegian flight attendants voting supported joining the AFA-CWA.
The union says the vote overcame what it described as "an intense campaign of management interference and union-busting during the vote."
By Jane Armstrong, CBC News
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Thousands of Cornell University grad student workers will vote Monday and Tuesday to achieve union representation.
Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU) are affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. AFT President Randi Weingarten was on campus over the weekend to help get out the vote.
Voting is being conducted by the American Arbitration Association.
There are about 2000 members of CGSU. The grad student union at Cornell was formed in 2014.
A group of decoration installers at Disney theme parks in California do not have enough in common with a larger group of technical workers to organize with the technical workers’ bargaining unit but can vote to form a unit of their own, a National Labor Relations Board regional director has said.
The multi-billion dollar Uber company has failed to overturn a Seattle ordinance giving Uber drivers the right to unionize.
The Teamsters are mounting an effort to organize Uber drivers in Seattle. A Washington state judge ruled against Uber's effort to legally overturn the city ordinance.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a separate suit against Seattle for giving Uber, Lyft and other taxi drivers the right to form unions.
Seattle's elected city council unanimously passed the union rights ordinance in 2015.
