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• Brazil’s Marina Silva: a triumph for underdogs and a lesson for civil society

  Guardian Professional, 3 Oct 2014: With a potential win at Sunday’s election, this environmental activist is proving that change can come from within politics, writes Gavin O’Toole

• Chicago fire puts focus on FAA's reliance on third-party contractors

  1 Oct 2014: Experts say many contract workers, like Brian Howard, who started the blaze in Aurora, are poorly paid – and victims of an industry that cuts costs to survive

• South African TV show Generations cut short as cast fired in pay dispute

  30 Sep 2014: The show has been running for 20 years but will see a break while the production company finds an entirely new cast

• Fashion retailers agree to raise minimum wage in Cambodia

  21 Sep 2014: H&M, Zara and Primark among brands offering higher wages for clothing workers amid protests over £62-a-month minimum pay

• China’s workers are turning from analogue slaves into digital rebels

  14 Sep 2014: Paul Mason: With a wave of strikes co-ordinated on social media, the migrant workforce is using 21st-century tools to fight poverty, corruption and sweated labour

• Do fast-food strikes actually work?

  4 Sep 2014: Evidence shows that the fast-food strikes are working not just to increase wages, but to reinvent unions and bolster long-dwindling membership
  

• Lights, camera, industrial action: how trade unions stormed our screens

  4 Sep 2014: Steve Rose: From the micro-solidarity of Two Days, One Night, via the political corruption of On the Waterfront and everything Ken Loach has ever made to new feelgood mining drama Pride – labour rights are a surprisingly cinematic topic

• Global labour's challenge to climate change

  2 Sep 2014:

  Alexander White: How is the global organised labour movement responding to climate change?

• It's time to raise the minimum wage. If Congress would rather suck up to the Koch brothers, we'll raise it anyway

  2 Sep 2014: Sarah Jaffe: As long as politicians see billionaires as their base, they won’t vote for $10 an hour. So workers have taken matters into their own hands

• German bakers threaten pretzel strike during Oktoberfest

  31 Aug 2014:

  Union representing 48,000 workers in Bavaria demands 6.5% pay rise to call off industrial action during beer festival

• CFMEU members could face fines after rallying behind union boss at inquiry

  6 Aug 2014: Show of solidarity with Michael Ravbar at royal commission could be unprotected industrial action, warns Fair Work agency

• US fast-food workers fight McDonald's as battle for better wages heads to court

  2 Aug 2014: Ruling by National Labour Relations Board could pave the way for unions to negotiate national deal on pay talks

• New York's Metropolitan Opera labour dispute: a symptom of a company in crisis

  30 Jul 2014: The largest performing arts organization in the US is threatening to lock out its musicians on Friday, the latest setback for a company – and art form – at a dangerous junction

• A three-day work week will make the rich richer and the rest of us poorer

  28 Jul 2014: Molly Osberg: Carlos Slim's big idea would never work for me. Real labor reform has to start with a living wage, not fewer hours

• Spanish union plans 'tax-haven' protest in Gibraltar

  28 Jul 2014:

  Andalusian Workers' Union says protest planned for 29 August also has goal of reclaiming Gibraltar as Spanish territory

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