(NewsPoint) – Beginning on Friday, dozens of Walmart employees at a Los Angeles store walked out as part of an ongoing labour dispute.
The action was the first time that Walmart retail workers have ever gone on strike, and has since spread to a total of twelve cities including; Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, Washington DC, Sacramento, Chicago, Orlando, Kentucky, Missouri and Minnesota.
The workers are protesting company attempts to "silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job," according to a United Food and...
The abundance of crop pests in developing countries may be greatly underestimated, posing a significant threat to some of the world’s most important food producing nations, according to research led by the University of Exeter.
Data on the known distributions of almost 2,000 crop-destroying organisms in 195 countries were analysed in the first global assessment of the factors determining the distribution of crop pests.
Dr Dan Bebber and Professor Sarah Gurr, of Biosciences at the University of Exeter, found that if all countries had levels of scientific and technical...
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Approximately 2.8 million workers are set to strike on Wednesday in a nationwide protest in Indonesia. The strike, taking place in 21 cities and 80 industrial zones across the country is in protest of the government's labour policy; calling for an increase in the minimum wage, and end to outsourcing arrangements, and implementations of national healthcare.
Said Iqbal, the head of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers Union (KSPI), said the workers would stage a series of strikes across the country in order to remind the Indonesian government of their...
