IWW and syndicalism
- Talk of work to rule strike due to draconian Home Depot schedule enforcementmastodon.art Hachiko from Birdsite 🏳️⚧️ (@hachx0@mastodon.art)
Attached: 2 images Home Depot is starting a policy where they require their employees to drop everything they're doing — including helping customers — to clock in for lunch at a randomly decided time, at the risk of being fired for "attendance occurrences." There's talk of a work to rule strike. ...
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> In the middle of talking to customer, cutting lumber, driving forklift? Too bad, drop everything.
- Canada: journalists, producers, education workers to strike
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> “Their fight is the fight of all Ontarians who are currently struggling to afford basic necessities such as food and housing." Calls for wage increase to afford to live in city where they work.
- UPS gains fuel fight for more worker rights in future
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> “It’s good for our union, the labor movement, and all working people. It means that workers have higher expectations than ever in their lives, and aren’t willing to settle for less.” "We got as much as we could without going on strike, but obviously, who knows what we could have gotten if we had gone on strike?"
- UK union fights structural racism in insecure workwww.barrons.com Minority Workers Hit By Surge In Insecure Work: UK Unions Body
The number of black and minority ethnic workers in insecure work has more than doubled over the last decade, a UK union body said on Monday, calling for government action.
- Cambodia: Nike refuses to pay 1,284 garment workerswww.miragenews.com Nike Accused of Withholding $1.4M Severance from Cambodian Workers
While billions of people are cheering on their favourite teams during the Women's World Cup, Nike – sponsor of thirteen of the teams – refuses to pay
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> "For Nike the amount owed is mere pennies, but for the women who are struggling to put food on the table and have been forced to take on debt since the factory closed, the money owed would be life changing. It is simple: by refusing to pay workers in their supply chain, Nike is contributing to wage theft."
- Tanzania: 2000 workers on strike after not paid for 7 months
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> "Some of us cannot pay the rent, and some of us cannot buy food. Some attempt suicide."
- South African police attack and arrest striking workers at Ekapa diamond minepeoplesdispatch.org South African police attack and arrest striking workers at Ekapa diamond mines : Peoples Dispatch
Hundreds of NUMSA members began a strike at the Ekapa diamond mines on August 7. On August 10, police forces arrested 43 striking workers after attacking the picket line with water cannons and tear gas
- Pakistan: union vows to foil ‘clandestine’ privatisation planwww.dawn.com Wapda CBA vows to foil ‘clandestine’ privatisation plan
Demands filling of over 80,000 vacancies
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> Union hit out at government for hiding plans for privatisation. Allegations political bigwigs, feudal lords, the rich have mindset to rule workers, make them slaves.
- Police Arrest President and 3 Officers of Nigeria Transport Workers’ Union
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> Shocked to see police locking offices without any reason. Police say it was order from above.
- NZCTU welcomes Commerce Commission’s inquiry into banking sector - NZCTUunion.org.nz NZCTU welcomes Commerce Commission’s inquiry into banking sector - NZCTU
NZCTU iwelcomes the release of the Commerce Commission interim issues paper on the market study into personal banking services.
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> "Banks are more profitable here than in comparable economies. We deserve a safe banking sector, one that looks after the needs of New Zealanders. That’s not the same thing as a sector that is drawing huge profits at the expense of consumers and workers."
- ITF: Left-wing swing in Latin America and the Caribbean presents opportunity to strengthen workers' rights and transform transportwww.itfglobal.org ITF: Left-wing swing in Latin America and the Caribbean presents opportunity to strengthen workers' rights and transform transport
10 August 2023, Cancun, Mexico – Unions attending the International Transport Workers’ Federation’s (ITF) Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Conference in Cancun, Mexico, committed to take advantage of the region’s left-wing political swing to pursue a progressive workers’ agenda and approach ...
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> Region’s six largest economies have progressive governments. “These victories represent a rejection of the neoliberal policies that have dominated the region for decades and a sign of growing support for social justice and economic equality.”
- Don’t be misled by media lies: here are the reasons your doctors are on strikevoxpoliticalonline.com Don’t be misled by media lies: here are the reasons your doctors are on strike
This is for anybody who still thinks doctors are harming England’s health service by going on strike: they are striking to stop the harm being inflicted by your Tory government! This post may…
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> "You never had medical debt in this country until Conservatives defunded the best healthcare system in the world." Businesses – particularly insurance firms – know an opportunity when they see one.
- Record profits are unpaid wagesmstdn.ca Ned Yeung (@ned@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 1 image Louder for those in the back. Record profits are unpaid wages. #union
- Quebec: Nurses stage sit-in over staff shortagemontrealgazette.com Sherbrooke hospital's nurses reach deal with management after sit-in protest
Administrative Labour Tribunal judge Myriam Bédard rendered a decision in which the parties made commitments for the future.
- Par for course for anti union efforts: divide subsets of workersuniverseodon.com William Hughes (@wdhughes@universeodon.com)
This is par for the course for anti #union efforts: try to convince subsets of workers that they don't have as much in common as they do. We all deserve to be paid more. We all should be bargaining together. The manufactured inflation crisis that came from large corporations raising prices becaus...
- Australian unions investigate lower living standards while profits surgethenewdaily.com.au Former ACCC boss Allan Fels to probe price gouging
Allan Fels has lent his talents to a union-backed probe into price gouging that will seek to determine whether large firms are doing it.
- USA: Where hard work doesn't pay offwww.oxfamamerica.org Where hard work doesn't pay off
An index of US labor policies compared to peer nations
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> The US is falling drastically behind OECD countries in mandating adequate wages, protections, and rights for millions of workers and their families. The wealthiest country in the world is near the bottom of every dimension of this index.
- San Jose: City workers to strike to meet living expenseswww.courthousenews.com Thousands of San Jose city workers vote to strike in mid-August
Two unions say the city has enough from a budget surplus to give their members long-awaited salary raises.
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> Unions want to meet high cost of living in Silicon Valley. Some say they had to move into cities in other counties and commute for hours to avoid high rent or homelessness.
- Turkey: FedEx employees to strikebianet.org FedEx workers will go on strike
No agreement was reached in the collective negotiation between the Nakliyat-İş union and FedEx Turkey. Union members announced their decision to go on strike in a demonstration in Beyazıt Square in İstanbul.
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> "It is not our aim to go on strike. Our aim is to get decent salary, ours is a class struggle."
- Everyone Wants to Work at UPS After Teamsters Dealwww.bloomberg.com Everyone Wants to Work at UPS After Teamsters Deal
United Parcel Service Inc. has become a hot employer since its union last month secured $30 billion in new money over a five-year contract.
https://archive.is/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-08/ups-jobs-searches-jump-50-after-30-billion-teamsters-win
Online jobs board Indeed Inc. saw a more than 50% increase in UPS searches. “UPS driver jobs near me” has also been a top trending search on Google.
- Marvel: 50 of 52 visual effects crew petition for unionizationwww.vulture.com Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel
On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE.
https://archive.is/https://www.vulture.com/2023/08/vfx-workers-vote-to-unionize-at-marvel-for-the-first-time.html
- Labour government interferes in leadership of transport workers uniontribuneonlineng.com NLC condemns Otti’s alleged interference in Abia NURTW council leadership
Stories by | Abuja The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described as rash, ill-informed and illegal, a directive of Abia State Secretary to the
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> Directive of Secretary to the State Government demands the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) install some persons as leaders of union in state council. “We could not imagine that a government elected under the banner of Labour Party could have written such a letter."
- France: janitorial workers strike just to be paidwww.aa.com.tr Garbage piles up at train station in southern France as janitorial workers extend strike
'Today, we are not saying give us a raise, but pay our salaries,' says trade union - Anadolu Ajansı
- City of L.A. workers to join wave of strikeswww.washingtonpost.com Over 11,000 L.A. workers plan to strike, hoping to ‘shut down’ city
More than 11,000 Los Angeles city workers will participate in the one-day strike, including sanitation, airport and street services employees, organizers said.
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> City workers plan to strike Tuesday, potentially grinding municipal operations to a halt. More than 11,000 city employees will participate, including sanitation workers, Los Angeles International Airport employees and street services.
- Trader Joe's hires union-busting law firm, fires union supporterssign.moveon.org Stand With Trader Joe's Workers!
Trader Joe's is a company that carefully cultivates a progressive reputation. But over the past few years, we have seen the company culture shift from a workplace with incredible pay, benefits, and atmosphere, to a company with increasing turnover, declining benefits, and stagnating wages. The pan...
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> Union won elections in four stores, Trader Joe’s continues to union bust, refuse to bargain in good faith. Trader Joe’s threatened and coerced workers, continues to drag feet at bargaining table.
- Socialists working on salting workplacesinthesetimes.com Democratic Socialists Are Fueling a Hot Labor Summer
From strike support to training organizers and supporting union drives, DSA members are helping to build a fighting labor movement.
“The end of the Bernie campaign morphed into a summer salting project”. Salts — labor organizers who seek jobs at nonunion workplaces — have traditionally been paid by unions. Lately, DSA has been training salts on a voluntary basis as a means of growing the labor movement and making it more militant. YDSA has gone campus by campus to recruit graduates into salting at union organizing hotspots like Amazon and Starbucks.
- Cambodian union leaders in prison for "illegal" strikeclb.org.hk In Cambodia, workers still on strike supporting ousted independent Nagaworld casino union and imprisoned leaders
Casino workers inside and out support LRSU, which was replaced by a management-friendly union
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> Independent union lost registration, replaced by company union. Strike ruled illegal, leaders charged with “incitement to commit a felony or disturb social security” serving multiple-year sentences. Protesters photographed, followed by strangers, harassed online.
- NSW union leader "deeply disappointed and frustrated" with Labor, “act of betrayal”www.smh.com.au ‘Deeply disappointed’: Union boss escalates tensions with Minns government
The most senior union official in NSW is “deeply disappointed and frustrated” after pay negotiations between the NSW government and Teacher’s Federation stalled last week.
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> “It’s not just about teachers, it’s all the workers who stood out on polling booths or voted for Labor because they wanted change.” “The teachers I have spoken to are bewildered. They don’t understand why the government is doing this.”
- Azerbaijani labour activist detained, allegedly torturedoc-media.org Azerbaijani labour rights activist ‘tortured and detained’
Afiaddin Mammadov has been sentenced to 30 days in detention on charges of disobeying police orders.
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> Afiaddin Mammadov sentenced to 30 days on charges of disobeying police orders. He was denied legal counsel and tried without lawyer.
- Video: "security attacks striking hotel workers"hear-me.social OccuWorld (@OccuWorld@hear-me.social)
Attached: 1 video security attacks striking hotel workers in so-called California #strike #hotel #security #strikebusting
- Starbucks Workers United in Eugene, Oregonnews.yahoo.com Starbucks Workers United Bus Tour rolls into Eugene as workers rally for better conditions
Starbucks union workers and community members rallied at University of Oregon for a demonstration for better working conditions and union solidarity.
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> Oregon has highest density of organized stores in country, 29 total. In Eugene and Springfield, seven of eight locations unionized. Employee fired after making complaint about safety concerns and saying supervisors "severely bullying" employees. "For me, being fired made me feel more passionate than anything. (It made) me feel like, even though I'm just one person, that this corporation found me to be a threat. It just makes me angrier."
- Austin, Dallas construction workers to lose rest breaks with state billweb.archive.org Fighting for Breaks on Multiple Fronts
Workers and activists implore Governor Greg Abbott to consider the dire need for protections in the record-breaking heat.
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> Austin and Dallas require 10-minute rest breaks for construction workers every four hours. House Bill 2127 will ban local ordinances mandating rest breaks September 1. “[Texas lawmakers] are signing these bills in air-conditioned rooms. They have access to water, they can take breaks." July was the hottest on record in Austin and Houston, with the average heat index reaching 120 in Houston.
- Solidarity with hotel workers, LTRN condemns polysci assoc crossing picket linemedium.com An Open Letter to the American Political Science Association
If the last year has proven anything, it is that labor is on the march. Workers across industries are fighting for economic justice in the…
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> Labor Tech Research Network (LTRN), is a group of over 450 scholars, activists, and practitioners with expertise in labor and technology. LTRN asks American Political Science Association to make annual meeting virtual, postoned, relocated, or canceled. Groups within APSA already withdrawn: Latino Caucus of Political Science, Cornell University Press and Temple University Press, Council of State Governors West, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; the Democratic Governors Association; and the Japanese American Citizens League.
- Union accuses Google of violating labor law by retaliating against organizingfortune.com ‘Incredibly suspicious’: A union is accusing Google of violating labor law by retaliating against workers for organizing
More than 70% of a proposed bargaining unit were told in July that they will lose their jobs, say organizers.
Alphabet Workers Union accused giant of violating labor law, which prohibits retaliation. More than 70% of proposed bargaining unit — which includes 118 writers, graphic designers and launch coordinators who create internal and external Google content — told they will lose their jobs.
- UK: Work and pensions secretary suggests delivery workwww.theguardian.com ‘I’m 57, I’m just shattered’: The reality of being a Deliveroo rider over 50
Chris says the long hours, lack of a pension or holiday pay and occasional violence from the public impacts his mental health
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> "Yesterday I made £15.75 in three hours at lunchtime. I don’t earn enough for the hours I work. I live in social housing and my rent is £150 a week. Currently I’m behind on that and my council tax."
- Australia: Transport industry unites in major convoys for reform after 100 drivers die in two yearswww.twu.com.au TRANSPORT INDUSTRY UNITES IN MAJOR NATIONAL CONVOYS FOR REFORM AS 100 TRUCK DRIVERS DIE IN UNDER TWO YEARS - Transport Workers’ Union
Today, major national convoys for transport reform will bring together hundreds of transport workers, employers and industry groups in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Cairns and from Sydney to Parliament House, Canberra. The participating truck driver employees, owner drivers, transpor...
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> Calls for Parliament to pass lifesaving transport reform. Since the Without Trucks Australia Stops Senate report was tabled on 25 August 2021, 100 truck drivers have been killed in Australia.
- UPS gains giving hope to Amazon employees
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> “The $21-an-hour starting wage is crazy strong compared to what we make at Amazon. Their wage progression is also infinitely better than what Amazon gives us. I support whatever the rank and file votes to do.”
- Kaiser employee applying for SNAP, third largest negotiations behind Teamsters/UPS and UAWwww.theguardian.com US healthcare workers focus on pay and understaffing in fight for new contracts
Over 85,000 workers hold pickets at 50 facilities across US as union contracts set to expire on 30 September
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> “I know that Kaiser is making a whole lot of money and I think it’s just very sad that not only me, but some of my co-workers, are having to ask for government assistance just so we can keep up.”