Left, one of 162 assembly workers who went on strike at Johnson Controls, Albany, Missouri, May 19 over being forced to work six days a week, 10 hours a day. Johnson Controls has 105,000 employees worldwide.
Right, 200 Romanian workers on strike in Bornheim, Germany, over very low wages and poor conditions in asparagus harvest. German bosses flew in 300,000 Eastern European immigrant workers last year.