Republican, Democratic approval ratings diverge PRINCETON, NJ — In a year marked by contentious negotiations between state governments and public employee unions, a slim majority of Americans, 52%, approve of labor unions. That percentage is unchanged from last year and remains on the lower end of what Gallup has measured historically. Gallup has asked [...]

  History of Naxalism -Part 1 Telangana Struggle: By July 1948, 2,500 villages in the south were organised into ?communes? as part of a peasant movement which came to be known as Telangana Struggle. Simultaneously the famous Andhra Thesis for the first time demanded that “Indian revolution” follow the Chinese path of protracted people?s war. [...]

  What we know What we need to do   International Labour Organization,  Geneva     Extracts    Executive summary   Children in hazardous work are in many respects the silent majority within child labour. Although they appear in photos, when it comes to action they are often eclipsed by forms of child labour that [...]

  ILO calls for urgent action against hazardous forms of child labour In a new report issued for World Day Against Child Labour, the International Labour Organization (ILO) warns that a staggeringly high number of children are still caught in hazardous work – some 115 million of the world’s 215 million child labourers – and [...]

In the new Global Report on Equality at Work 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) notes that in spite of continuous positive advances in anti-discrimination legislation, the global economic and social crisis has led to a higher risk of discrimination against certain groups such as migrant labour. Press release | May 16, 2011 GENEVA (ILO [...]

America’s Poor: Where Poverty Is Rising In America Thanks to the recession, 2009 was one of the worst years for poverty in America in more than half a century. The total number of Americans living in poverty hit 43.6 million, the highest level in 51 years and the national poverty rate rose to 14.3 percent [...]

What does it mean to be poor in 2010? In monetary terms, the number of people living below the official extreme-poverty threshold of $1.25 per day in developing nations has declined. In fact, according to the World Bank’s benchmarks, the extreme poverty rate worldwide has tumbled from about 50 percent in 1981 to about 25 [...]

ILO Report : World Unemployment reached highest level on record in 2009                                                           Over half the workers are in vulnerable employment GENEVA (ILO News) – The number of jobless worldwide reached nearly 212 million in 2009 following an unprecedented increase of 34 million compared to [...]

More than half the world’s workers – especially women in the world’s poorest countries – are in informal jobs with low pay and no protections, and the global economic downturn threatens to push the number even higher, according to a report released Wednesday. The Paris-based OECD estimates that 1.8 billion people are working without a [...]