A 71-year-old former coal worker from South Wales has claimed to be a descendant of the Malaysian royal family.

A New York City agency overseeing workplace affairs said on Friday it sued Starbucks Corp because the coffee chain illegally fired a longtime barista and union organizer shortly after employees in his store voted to join a union.

Villagers brave snakes and hunger to protect land in flooded Pakistan

A 24-year-old Kenyan woman died in Canada while livestreaming an afternoon swim on her Facebook page.

A 61-year-old postal carrier died after being attacked by five dogs in Florida on Sunday.

Tesla Inc's lawyers on Wednesday will urge a California judge to throw out a lawsuit by the state's civil rights agency accusing the electric car maker of widespread race discrimination at an assembly plant.

Sri Lanka widens import ban as economic crisis persists

The coalition is pushing for the firm's workers to get a minimum hourly wage of $30, improved medical leave and easing of productivity requirements.

General Electric Co's workers at a plant in Alabama said on Monday they have launched a campaign to form a union for better pay and job security.

Public transport workers in London held fresh strikes Friday over pay and conditions.

When Israeli missiles started landing in Gaza in early August, shattering glass and collapsing buildings, Jouman Abdu put on headphones, covered her eyes with a blindfold and stretched on the couch.

Plans for a high-wage, high-growth economy lie in ruins as Britain's Conservative prime minister struggles to answer a cost-of-living crisis, compounded by rising worker unrest.

The U.S. and Mexican governments have resolved a labor dispute at a Mexican unit of Stellantis, officials said on Tuesday, marking the latest blow by a recent trade pact against entrenched unions seen as cozy with management.

Britain recorded its biggest rise in foreign workers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the year to June, driven overwhelmingly by workers from outside the European Union, official figures showed on Tuesday.

An Apple AirTag has helped police arrest an airline worker who stole more than $16,000 worth of luggage.

In the span of eight days in May, three young men were shot dead in a small neighborhood of the town of Orebro, part of a wave of gang violence spreading from big cities to small-town Sweden that is topping voters' concerns ahead of elections next month.

US inflation eased slightly in July.

An NHS worker who was undergoing treatment for breast cancer won a £1m lottery jackpot shortly before getting an all-clear from doctors.

Through blistering heatwaves and drought that have parched the French countryside in recent weeks, one group has emerged a reluctant winner: salt farmers in the northwestern region of Guerande.

Ukraine said on Sunday that renewed Russian shelling had damaged three radiation sensors and hurt a worker at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, in the second hit in consecutive days on Europe's largest nuclear facility.

For ongoing strikes today to have any prospect of success, unions must carefully balance industrial action with negotiation to maintain public support.

Across a range of other sectors, platform cooperatives want to revolutionise industries including transport and delivery by providing workers with fair wages and better conditions.

Liz Njue had just arrived to vote in her party primary when opponents attacked her, pulling her hair and tearing her blouse.

The UK government has taken a stricter approach and has banned British troops from paying for prostitutes while overseas.

A record crowd of 87,000 for the women's Euro is expected at a sold-out Wembley on Sunday

It should surprise no one that the first big pandemic-era display of worker power was in air travel, according to Sharan Burrow, head of the International Trade Union Confederation.

While a handful of member states have legislation limiting working hours in excessive heat, the thresholds vary and many nations have no nationwide heat limits.

Five months on, anger and despair prevail in Donbas

A strike by contract workers at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) is unacceptable, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Tuesday, raising the prospect that his government could use force to break it up.

Christophe Gagnon considered quitting his avionics studies as COVID-19 crippled aviation, but the 21-year-old stayed in class and now the industry is desperate for more like him to keep planes flying.