The downturn in the U.S. economy has lowered the demand for nurses easing the nursing shortage, while the nursing degree programs are full. On site and online nursing degree programs continue to turn away approximately 30,000 or more quality applicants

HR news and analysis including: HR professionals warn they may have to sack staff to avoid paying backdated holiday pay, but could face more employment tribunals; A growing confidence in career prospects for HR despite the impact of the recession;

Nottingham City Council will make more than 450 redundancies in a bid to save £14m after consultations ended with unions.

Up to 10,000 postal workers will strike for 24 hours next Friday (19 June) in a row over jobs, causing huge disruption to mail deliveries.

A senior HR official at Salford City Council has become embroiled in a £70,000 expenses scandal after he claimed for 80 toy men to use as props in a training exercise.

Wildcat strikes have returned to the Lindsey oil refinery after hundreds of workers walked out over planned job cuts.

The Bail Out the People Movement's call for an emergency protestagainst a June 7 foreclosure auction demanded that "the City of New York,the Grand Hyatt and the Real Estate Disposition Corporation (REDC) cancel theauction, set up to allow financial predators

Not so long ago General Motors, Ford and Chrysler were known as the Big Threeautomakers. Now that they're not so big, they're called the DetroitThree, but they're still called automakers. Hyundai, Nissan, Tata, Fiat,Opel, Volkswagen, etc., are all called automakers.

When asked why he continued to provide midpregnancy abortions after decades ofthe most brutal attacks by the right wing, Dr. George Tiller replied, "Whereelse can women go?" Indeed, the loss of Dr. Tiller means there are lessthan a half-dozen doctors

For the better part of the last 75 years, revolutionary peoples' artistIrving Fierstein used his immense talent to depict the many struggles ofworking and oppressed people for social and economic justice and againstimperialism. In the early 1980s Fierstein created a

For decades, New Yorkers have relied on WBAI 99.5 FM, in the PacificaRadio Network, for radio broadcasting that provides real news and perspectivesnot filtered by corporate media. Now, the station is under attack.

More than a million and a half workers in the United States have lost theirjobs since last December. Some 345,000 lost their jobs in May. Unemployment isat 9.4 percent and headed up to more than 10 percent. Well over 25

Over 300 members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community, alongwith their supporters, rallied in front of the 77th precinct in Brooklyn, N.Y.,June 6 to demand justice for two lesbians of color who were brutally beaten andarrested by the

Over 100 people gathered on Detroit's west side at Euclid and Holmur onMay 31 to protest the shootings of three African-American youths earlier in themonth. Community residents and relatives of the victims say the shootings wereunprovoked.

On June 3, a strong demonstration of some 300 parents, teachers, students,school bus drivers and community activists stormed a meeting of the BostonSchool Committee, forcing the committee to backpedal on its City-Hall-authored"5 zone" plan for school resegregation. The demonstration wasorganized