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Pipe-swinging, hot liquid and wrench: Four MTA workers attacked in separate NYC incidents

At least four MTA workers were injured in a series of recent assaults across New York City, as violent passengers lashed out using wrenches, fists, and kicks, according to police and sources.Strangely, three of them were attacked within 12 hours. It seems that there is a rage against the MIT employees or something else.The violence […]

Chiquita fires thousands of striking banana workers in Panama, says it suffered $75 million losses

Representative Image (AI) PANAMA CITY: Banana giant Chiquita Brands has fired its workers in Panama who have been out on strike for more than three weeks as part of nationwide protests against reforms to the social security system, the company said Thursday. Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino had said earlier Thursday that the strike was […]

Trump can’t strip Foreign Service workers of their collective bargaining rights, judge says

Department of state, US (File Photo: AP) WASHINGTON: A federal judge agreed Wednesday to temporarily block the Trump administration from stripping Foreign Service employees of their collective bargaining rights. US District Judge Paul Friedman granted a federal labour union’s request for a preliminary injunction that, while its lawsuit against the government is pending, stops the […]

Trump must halt mass layoffs of federal workers: Judge

The Trump administration must temporarily cease from engaging in widespread layoffs and firings of govt workers, a California federal court ruled Friday. President Donald Trump’s Feb executive order calling for a radical reorganisation of the federal workforce likely violates the Constitution, Judge Susan Illston of the US district court for the Northern District of California […]

Over 15,000 USDA workers accept Trump-era payouts to leave their jobs

More than 15,000 employees at the US Department of Agriculture have accepted financial incentives to leave their posts, as part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to downsize the federal workforce. According to a USDA briefing shared with congressional staff and reviewed by Reuters, this represents roughly 15% of the department’s total employees.The departures follow […]

UN says over 50 Gaza aid workers faced abuse in Israeli detention | World News

Representative Image” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”/> GAZA CITY: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday said more than 50 of its staff in Gaza were abused and used as human shields while in Israeli military detention.“Since the start of the war in October 2023, over 50 UNRWA staff among them teachers, doctors, social workers, have […]

Appeals court backs Trump firing thousands of probationary federal workers

A federal appeals court has ruled in favour of the Trump administration on Wednesday, allowing it to proceed with the dismissal of thousands of probationary federal employees. This overturns a previous court order in Baltimore that had required reinstatement.The court ruled that the employees’ terminations should be challenged through the federal employment process rather than […]

Supreme Court Ruling: Supreme Court blocks order to rehire thousands of Fed workers fired under Trump administration

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the Trump administration in blocking a lower court order that required the government to rehire over 16,000 probationary federal workers who were dismissed as part of US President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to shrink the federal workforce. The brief order halted a ruling by US district judge […]

US Supreme Court halts reinstatement of 16,000 federal workers dismissed under Trump administration

US President Donald Trump The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a directive requiring the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers who were dismissed during extensive workforce reductions. The court’s intervention came after the administration sought emergency relief from a California federal judge’s decision, which mandated the return of 16,000 probationary staff […]