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Brendan O’Connor signals shift away from negotiating pay deals workplace by workplace and instead look at industry wide bargaining

A week ago, thousands of public school teachers in West Virginia went out on strike, a rare but familiar union-organized action to protest low wages and rising health-care costs. Tuesday night, state union leaders and the Governor Jim Justice reached a deal, and the teachers were expected to be back…

'This is a case that is going to cause a great deal of concern amongst gig economy companies,' says top employment lawyer

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If Narendra Modi finishes five years with growth pretty much at the same level as he inherited, a clear opportunity will have been wasted