Workers from Japan's largest group of trade unions have struck early agreements for hefty wage hikes with employers as cost of living pressures grow and businesses scramble to secure staff amid a labour crunch, union leaders said on Thursday.

Initial vote counting in the second round of the United Auto Workers (UAW) elections concluded over the weekend, with challenger Shawn Fain maintaining a narrow 645-vote lead over incumbent UAW president Ray Curry. It appears at this point that Fain may win, but there are 1,608 ballots being challenged. Results are not expected until late this week or early next week.

´Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process they do not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

Mine workers at the Warrior Met coal mine in Alabama who walked off the job in April 2021 just decided to end their strike and go back to work

Half a million workers from across Sri Lanka’s public and private sectors joined strikes and protests on Wednesday in opposition to the savage International Monetary Fund measures being imposed by the government.