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- www.theadvocate.com.au Indian police detain 100 striking Samsung workers
Dozens of workers at a Samsung plant in India have been detained after days of boycotting work over...
- • 100%www.latimes.com Sometimes we have to escalate to be heard when we’re demanding a livable future
'I started organizing in high school for climate justice. I credit a lot of my drive and passion to both my grandmas.'
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- www.dw.com Why Kenya airport workers went on strike – DW – 09/13/2024
Aviation workers at Kenya's busiest airport have called for urgent talks with the government after a day-long strike stranded thousands of passengers. Unions say a takeover of the airport would lead to job losses.
- truthout.org Filings Reveal Amazon Spent Over $14 Million to Bust Union in 2022 Alone
Even within the booming anti-union consulting industry, this is an unusually high amount of spending.
- mastodon.sdf.org Ruben (@tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org)
Help me out #fediverse I'm going on #strike tomorrow for a pay rise. I need to come up with a slogan any ideas? I'm doing this for all the junior #nurses I work with who cannot afford to take a day off to strike because they have to pay #rent and the #costofliving https://www.nswnma.asn.au/campai...
- www.brusselstimes.com Audi Brussels remains at a standstill as workers take vehicle keys
Workers have seized the keys of around 300 completed and unfinished vehicles, saying that no cars will leave the factory until Audi clarifies the future of the site.
- portside.org Ultium Workers in Tennessee Win Their Union As Majority Sign Cards To Join the UAW
A majority of workers at Ultium Cells in Tennessee have signed cards to join the UAW and the company has agreed to recognize their union. Ultium, a joint venture of General Motors and LG Energy Solution, did not interfere with the decision by its 1,000 employees to join the UAW. The workers organize...
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/defend-unions-defend-cfmeu
- www.solidaritycenter.org Solidarity Center - Liberia: Firestone Contract Workers Win Union, Equity
In a significant win for equity on Firestone Liberia’s rubber plantation in Harbel, more than 90 percent of contract workers voted Saturday to join the Firestone Agricultural Workers’ Union of Liberia…
- www.thenewsminute.com Bengaluru: Dalit sanitation workers protest against DRDO alleging unfair treatment
Demanding authorities to reinstate them, 61 women safai karamcharis staged a protest on Monday, September 2 outside Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS) building,
- • 96%abcnews.go.com Workers at General Motors battery plant in Tennessee unionize and will get pay raise
About 1,000 workers at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, will get big pay raises now that they have joined the United Auto Workers union
- traxion.gg Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown developer goes on strike
Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown developer Kylotonn has announced it is going on strike against parent company Nacon, with the game just days away from release.
- union.place PeachMcD (@PeachMcD@union.place)
@servelan@newsie.social Important to recognize & never forget to honor the fact that #BlueCollar #Labor only begins building when #slavery is no longer an option, & #BIPOC were expressly excluded from #unions until Relatively Recently I am a yt #UnionMaid in #AFSCME & darn grateful for my #Union...
- • 84%prospect.org The State of the Unions, Labor Day 2024
Growing among professional workers, but still stuck when it comes to organizing nearly everybody else
- unitehere.org Ten Thousand Hotel Workers On Strike During Busy Labor Day Weekend
After months of unresolved negotiations, hotel workers with the UNITE HERE union walked off the job today at 24 hotels in eight cities: Boston, Greenwich, Honolulu, Kauai, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hotel-strike-quebec-1.7309214
- www.wsws.org Australia: Tens of thousands of construction workers protest Labor government attack
The mass attendance at the rallies, defying a campaign of threats, isolation and censorship, is an expression of considerable anger over Labor’s anti-democratic attack on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) and the entire working class.
- www.theguardian.com Unions in higher education are surging, new report reveals
An estimated 38% of graduate student employees are now in unions as ‘unionization becomes a tactic for change’
- mastodon.world Yakyu Night Owl (@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world)
Please support your neighbors exercising their labor rights and do not cross picket lines at local grocery stores. Fred Meyer https://www.koin.com/news/portland/fred-meyers-employees-begin-week-long-strike-08282024/ New Seasons https://www.koin.com/news/portland/new-seasons-workers-from-10-portl...
- www.ign.com Greedfall 2 Developers Are Going on Strike, Allege Studio Management Treats Workers Like ‘Galley Slaves’ - IGN
The developers of upcoming fantasy role-playing game Greedfall 2 have announced plans to strike in protest of management just a few weeks before the game comes out.
- archive.ph Other Queensland union vows to spend Labor donations on fight for CFMEU
The union will redirect all funds earmarked for Labor Party donations towards fighting the Commonwealth’s takeover of the CFMEU.
- • 100%www.seattletimes.com 4,500 Fred Meyer workers set to strike in Portland area
Thousands of Fred Meyer workers in the Portland area plan to walk off the job early Wednesday, striking over alleged breaches of labor relations laws.
> Thousands of Fred Meyer workers in the Portland area plan to walk off the job early Wednesday, striking over alleged breaches of labor relations laws and amid contentious contract negotiations.
> The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555, which represents roughly 4,500 Fred Meyer workers across the Portland area, told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Tuesday that the strike would begin at 6 a.m. Wednesday and continue nearly a week, until 8 a.m. next Tuesday.
- www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au Federal Labor Passes Union Busting Laws, Instead of Dealing with Individual Criminals
Federal Labor has legislated laws within the federal Act governing registered organisations, which includes unions, and these permit for the takeover of CFMEU administration.
- • 96%jacobin.com Boeing Workers Are on the Verge of Striking
The Boeing contract for over 32,000 workers in Washington and Oregon expires next month, and workers have voted to sanction a strike. Their complaints include low pay, frozen pensions, and mismanagement that has resulted in deadly disasters for the company.
- uniglobalunion.org UNI condemns violent response to peaceful protest against outsourcing at Banco Santander Brazil
UNI is in solidarity with Brazilian bank unions after a peaceful protest against outsourcing ended with police violence.
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Right to disconnect, Australia: employees no longer forced to respond to management after hours
timesofindia.indiatimes.com Right to disconnect: Australia allows workers to 'ignore their bosses after work hours' - Times of IndiaInternational Business News: Australian workers gained the right to ignore work-related contact outside designated hours under new legislation effective from Monday. Passed in Feb
- www.teamstersrail.ca Teamsters Canada Rail | Latest News Updates
Teamsters Canada Rail | Latest News Updates
https://newsie.social/@LALegault/113008779212164048
- finance.yahoo.com TEAMSTERS WIN GROUNDBREAKING JOINT EMPLOYER DECISION AGAINST AMAZON
Amazon delivery drivers represented by Teamsters Local 396 in Palmdale, Calif., won a groundbreaking decision that sets the stage for Amazon delivery drivers across the country to organize with the Teamsters. After more than a year-long investigation, National Labor Relations Board Region 31 (NLRB) ...
https://x.com/amazonteamsters/status/1826653831645515787