Only 10% of HR professionals agree that outsourcing the function enables them to become more strategic, a CIPD report has revealed.

The CBI has praised employers for harnessing a more flexible working culture during the recession and improving industrial relations.

All sacked Lindsey oil refinery workers will need to be reinstated if the dispute is to end, the union Unite has declared.

The jobs outlook is as bleak as the 1980s recession, the TUC warned today.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is expected to reveal that it has agreed a £9.6m pay deal for its chief executive Stephen Hester.

Kari Ann Cowan, Peltier's niece, reported on July 19from the prison at Lewisburg that Leonard may have suffered a heart attack. Shestated, "He had a hard time breathing. He was in his cell and had an achein his chest. He

Indigenous peoples, solidarity movement activists and environmentalistsfilled the sidewalks outside the Peruvian Consulate in New York June 10. Aroundthe corner, three activists chained shut the doors to the building housing Sen.Chuck Schumer's office.

A new episode has opened in the defense campaign for Rev. Edward Pinkney, aBenton Harbor, Mich., clergyman and leader of the Black Autonomy NetworkCommunity Organization (BANCO). Pinkney had been sentenced to three-to-10 yearsin prison for quoting Bible scriptures.

A Black man's life is still not worth a white man's life inParis, Texas," said activist Anthony Bond. "I am 55 years old and Iknow racism when I see it. Paris, Texas, is eaten up with racism." Bond was among

More than 300 protesters crammed the steps of the San Francisco Court HouseJune 8 demanding that bogus charges, manufactured over 36 years ago againsteight former Black Panthers, be dropped.

U.S. imperialism and its Middle East client states carried out heavy-handedinterventions in the June 7 Lebanese elections and Hezbollah's electoralally in the Christian community there suffered some setbacks.

On June 5, Peruvian President Alan Garcia unleashed his heavily armedrepressive forces against Indigenous people in that country's Amazonianregion. They had been defending that enormous source of natural wealth againstthe voraciousness of transnational corporations. Ironically, that same day hadbeen designated

UE is calling for a national day of action on Tuesday, June 23 to bringpressure on Wells Fargo and Wachovia—which Wells Fargo recentlyacquired—to extend the loan to keep the Quad City Die Casting plantopen. The union plans actions in front