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Heathrow Airport is set to face severe disruption as staff announce several walkouts. The London hub has confirmed there will be strikes at the end of April and for much of May. The Unite union has warned that planes will likely be "delayed, disrupted and grounded". The long weekend walkout is part of a slew of strikes to be held by different departments at the UK's biggest airport over the next few weeks. Border Force officers are set to strike from 29 April to 2 MayThe Public and Commercial Services trade union (PCS), which represents Border Force officials, says more than 300 of its members...
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Thousands of Chileans demonstrated in Santiago on Thursday. The demonstrators are asking for Chilean Congress to approve social reforms to bring the country out of inequality. President Gabriel Boric promised to reform Chile's pension system and labour laws when taking power in 2022.
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Carrefour has more than 12,000 stores across the world, with about 5,000 in France alone. Since 2018, some 300 stores have become franchises and the trend looks set to increase. The French union CFDT claims resorting to franchises en masse leads to major disadvantages for staff. Although still operating under the Carrefour banner, franchised employees do not enjoy the protection of a multinational company and its strong unions, which can result in them losing previously acquired advantages. The union said that the franchise system has resulted in workers' annual earnings dropping by more than ...
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The death of five construction workers on a building site in Florence in February has catapulted workplace safety to the forefront of Italian politics. In 2021, Italy registered the second-highest number of workplace victims in the EU after France, with the count expected to rise this year. Euronews correspondent Giorgia Orlandi travelled to Rome to report on new plans aimed at improving working conditions across the country. Watch the full report in the video above.
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Video games are getting bigger and more complex, with sprawling open worlds that offer countless possibilities for character interactions and conversations. But with those expanding worlds and characters comes the need for more voices, and some game studios have been experimenting with AI tools like voice cloning to make the task easier and more cost-effective. Professional video game voice actors are split over the new technology – some fear that AI voices could replace all but the most high-profile human actors; others have been open to the idea as long as their voices aren’t misused and the...
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Three workers were killed in an accident at a supermarket construction site near Florence, Italy, on Friday morning, according to authorities. Three more workers were injured, while two were considered missing as of Friday afternoon. The accident happened when a reinforced concrete beam toppled over a slab of a pre-fabricated building, which then collapsed. Local authorities said about 50 firefighters were still searching for the missing workers but feared the death toll of the incident could climb. According to the president of the Tuscany region, Eugenio Giani, there were about 50 workers on...
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Hundreds of thousands of workers in Finland are expected to join widespread strikes which began Wednesday and escalate through Thursday and Friday - with more strikes planned next week too. Unions have called for industrial action to protest government proposals on labour law reforms which they say would adversely impact low-wage earners and shift a balance of power towards employers when it comes to setting salaries. The government says their sweeping reforms are needed to make the Finnish economy more competitive, and as an indicator of how important the new proposals are to each side, the r...
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