America’s largest federal employees’ union filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Homeland Security Department and its leadership to stop the Trump administration from canceling a collective bargaining agreement for Transportation Security Administration workers. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle, is the latest example of how the union, the American Federation of Government…
The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, weeks after a fatal mid-air plane collision in Washington DC. Several hundreds of the agency’s probationary workers – who have generally been in their positions for less than a year – received the…
The National Treasury Employees Union said on Tuesday that it has sued President Trump to block an executive order that would enable him to fire career federal workers across the government. The order signed on Monday evening, known as “Schedule F,” would empower the Trump administration to strip job protections from many career federal employees…
Authorities in India have removed hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste from an Indian chemical factory that witnessed one of the world’s deadliest gas leaks 40 years ago. A court in December had set a four-week deadline for the waste to be disposed. On Wednesday, the toxic waste – around 337 tonnes – was taken…
A union representing more than 11,000 Starbucks baristas in the US says its members will hold a five-day strike starting on Friday morning, in a dispute over pay and working conditions. Workers United says the walkouts will start in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle, with strike action set to spread each day and reach hundreds…
