Labour Disputes
Chile’s president sends Congress plan to slash health care costs after protests
FILE PHOTO: Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Sunday announced a plan to overhaul the country’s public health care system, the latest in …
France unveils emergency plan to calm health workers unrest
PARIS (Reuters) – France will take on a third of the debt of its public hospitals and increase its health budget by 1.5 billion euros over three years as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to quell unrest among health workers. France will take on from 2020 some 10 billion euros of public hospital debt over three …
GM appeals directly to employees as strike losses mount, riling UAW
DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Motors Co took the unusual step of appealing directly to employees in a blog post on Friday that laid out the terms of the automaker’s latest offer aimed at ending a month-long strike, angering the union with which it is negotiating. FILE PHOTO: Striking union workers walk the picket line outside …
