RARE JAPANESE LABOR WIN PROMPTS NEW FEARS

Voluntary overtime may become a thing of the past, as companies such as Toyota and McDonalds start paying employees for extra work Its not easy being a worker in Japan. In big cities such as Tokyo or Osaka, salarymen still start the day early, work long into the...

GOVERNMENT STEPS UNITE CZECH UNIONS

Milan Stech, chairman of the Czech umbrella CMKOS trade union confederation, told journalists Wednesday that 985,000 people, including 306,000 civil servants, participated in a one-hour token strike the CMKOS staged on Tuesday. The government has thus managed to unite...

ENERGY DEMAND WILL GROW

The government predicted that, despite persistently high oil prices, global energy demand will grow by 50 percent over the next two decades with continued heavy reliance on environmentally troublesome fossil fuels, especially coal and oil. The projections by the...