2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1062+ words) About 10,000 public servants in New Zealand took part in a half-day strike on September 9 against the National Party-led government’s moves to drive down wages. The government also intends to cut about 8,700 jobs across government departments—14 percent of the core public…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (580+ words) A new study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has confirmed what miners, their widows and black lung clinic physicians have warned for years: the deadly and preventable disease has returned to levels not seen in…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (664+ words) For more than eleven months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has failed to pay third-party medical claims for people in its custody. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that ICE has not paid outside providers through the affected system since October…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (848+ words) About 10,000 public servants will join a nationwide strike across New Zealand on Wednesday. It will be the country’s largest industrial action since the October 23, 2025 strike by more than 100,000 teachers and healthcare workers. Pickets or rallies have been announced in Auckland,…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (316+ words) The trial of Lindsay Clancy ended Friday afternoon in a mistrial, after a jury of nine women and three men told Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan “with a heavy heart” that they could not reach a unanimous verdict. Jurors…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (484+ words) A further 11,844 cases have not been laboratory-confirmed or remain under investigation, bringing the total to roughly 29,000 illnesses. Travel-associated infections, 1,805 of them, are counted separately. Among confirmed patients, the median age is 46, while the age range runs from 1 to 99, and the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (288+ words) The RCN analysed 383 cases of internationally educated nursing staff in adult social care between 2023 and 2025. UNISON surveyed 3,306 migrant care workers between November 2024 and January 2025. Together, their findings indict a sector dependent on migrant labour while denying migrant workers elementary security....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (706+ words) The CDC claimed that available information does not establish whether measles caused or contributed to the deaths, or whether the two “died from other causes while infected with measles.” That last phrase is the argument itself, written into the surveillance…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (973+ words) Over 1,000 doctors from Melbourne’s major inner-city public hospitals struck for four hours on Thursday, August 20, rallying outside the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Parkville. It was the first strike since 2002 by Victorian doctors, who voted 97 percent in favour of industrial…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1125+ words) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has imprisoned Loreto Javar, a 76-year-old lawful permanent resident suffering from stage 4 prostate cancer, for more than two months after agents kidnapped him at an interview for US citizenship. Since ICE seized him on June…...