unions

unions cyu • 3h ago • 100%

Edmonton Public Schools to strike: members haven’t seen meaningful wage increase in 12 years. Twelve years ago, you could live off this income as a single person, but you can’t now.

edmontonjournal.com

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unions cyu • 1d ago • 100%

Canada: Amazon attempts to rewrite labor law to decertify union

www.theglobeandmail.com

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unions cyu • 1d ago • 100%

CVS strike: management accused of surveillance of workers, retaliation for union activities and prohibiting workers from engaging in union activities

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unions cyu • 3d ago • 98%

When nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents

https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/113321774350369519

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unions cyu • 1d ago • 100%

UK: HelloFresh warehouse employees raise concerns about working conditions, management fires 79

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unions cyu • 2d ago • 100%

Employees form first Walmart warehouse union in Canada

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unions cyu • 4d ago • 99%

Ubisoft strike: Until proven otherwise, games only exist thanks to the workers’ labour, and good games thanks to good working conditions

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unions pete_link • 2d ago • 100%

A National Movement to Organize Amazon Takes Off

world-outlook.com

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unions Midnight • 4d ago • 100%

The Call Is Out for Mass, Simultaneous Strikes in 4 Years

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-call-is-out-for-mass-simultaneous-strikes-in-4-years/

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unions AmbiguousProps • 5d ago • 100%

Machinists push Boeing to bargain as month-old strike endures

www.seattletimes.com

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unions cyu • 4d ago • 100%

Union calls for reform: IMF and World Bank continue to promote austerity and deregulation that undermine workers’ rights and democracy, exacerbate inequality

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unions Intrepidtron • 1w ago • 96%

Why You Might Soon Be Paid Like an Uber Driver—Even If You’re Not One

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unions cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Philippines: commission rules that riders for food delivery company are employees rather than contractors

www.sunstar.com.ph

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unions cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Indonesia: Health workers to strike if minimum wage not enforced and increased after real wage decline of 30% over 10 years

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unions cyu • 1w ago • 96%

Rwanda: union grows from 200 in 2008, to 78k this year

https://www.bwint.org/cms/rwanda-union-holds-congress-celebrates-massive-increase-in-membership-3217

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unions cyu • 1w ago • 100%

India: strike leads to political crisis over Tamil Nadu's image as "investor-friendly" state

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/samsung-india-chennai-strike-9613619/

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unions cyu • 1w ago • 100%

UC presidents given additional two hundred thousand a year, on top of seven hundred to eight hundred thousand, while some employees sleep in cars

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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unions cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Caterpillar Mexico: management continues to intimidate, retaliate, and exclude union members; public pressure forced reinstatement of union leader

www.industriall-union.org

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unions cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Italy: hooded attackers target leatherworkers on picket line, employees from other firms strike in solidarity

au.fashionnetwork.com

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unions cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Samsung India: government files cases against 625 employees and union activists during strike for union recognition, higher wages, and 8-hour workday

www.news9live.com

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unions return2ozma • 2w ago • 93%

The Chippendales Dancers Are Seeking to Unionize

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unions AmbiguousProps • 2w ago • 100%

Boeing withdraws 30% pay rise offer to striking workers

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unions cyu • 2w ago • 99%

Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break"

www.ragtrader.com.au

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unions cyu • 2w ago • 100%

McGill drops legal attempt to deny law professors right to union

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-drops-law-faculty-union-legal-challenge-1.7345324

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unions cyu • 2w ago • 100%

Egypt: Union activist blindfolded and arrested for encouraging strike and causing financial losses, threatened with imprisonment if strike didn't end

menasolidaritynetwork.com

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unions maniacalmanicmania • 2w ago • 97%

The National Council of Australia's National Tertiary Education Union has overwhelmingly endorsed the institutional academic boycott of Israel - BDS is now union policy

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 100%

GE Appliance plant, 90% union in "right-to-work" state, approve strike by 98%. 60% have to work second job, health care plan too expensive for 30%, most don't make enough for one-bedroom in city

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unions return2ozma • 3w ago • 94%

500 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize as labor talks continue

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Maui: 98% of nurses union voters approve strike over workload, burn out, nurse-to-patient ratio

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 100%

South African unions denounce government's bow to the IMF, neoliberal policies, privatisation, and austerity

https://saftu.org.za/archives/8570

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Serbia: manager attacks three women with previous work-related injuries, throwing chair, one woman loses consciousness. Management claims surveillance cameras not operational.

www.industriall-union.org

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Guatemala: health workers union activist murdered

publicservices.international

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Samsung India strike: management refuses to recognize union, government arrests 900

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 93%

"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-american-tech-workers-feel-about-joining-a-union/

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 98%

Longshoremen: It’s disgraceful foreign-owned companies make their billion-dollar profits off backs of workers, and take those earnings out of this country into pockets of foreign conglomerates

https://ilaunion.org/ila-update-monday-september-30-2024-at-11-am/

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 98%

Australia: solidarity march against government takeover of union

https://defendtheunions.cargo.site/

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Philippines: government red-tags youth activists, women’s groups, environmentalists, Indigenous peoples, journalists, and teachers. Union leader goes into hiding after layoff

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 98%

Engineering specialists at Seagate hard-drives vote overwhelmingly for union after manufacturing specialists unionized last year

https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2024/september/seagate-engineering-specialists-vote-for-representation-by-unite

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unions cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Samsung India: management threatens striking employees with termination if they continued with protest

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unions cyu • 4w ago • 99%

"My God, Roger! Only yesterday I told them we were one big, happy family!"

https://mastodon.social/@Radical_EgoCom/113199263667805102

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