unions
- Argentina: oil seed union launches "illegal" strike after government had previously pressured workers to call off strikewww.xm.com Argentine oilseed union strikes as labor reform up for vote
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- New Zealand: Nearly three-quarters of supermarket employees said wages not enough to cover living expenses, "I am one of the team that doesn't even shop at my own store because I can't afford to."www.rnz.co.nz What do supermarket workers really get paid?
The union says it is 'poverty wages'. Supermarkets say they pay fairly.
- Amazon UK management rejects union leaflets on warehouse tables, arguing “it could pose a hazard,” despite the fact that Amazon has been posting leaflets on each table in the warehousenovaramedia.com Amazon Says GMB Leaflets Could Be a ‘Hazard’ Amid Union-Busting Allegations | Novara Media
The retail giant has taken unprecedented measures to deter its workers from unionising, as its Coventry workers gear up for a historic vote.
- ExxonMobil France: striking employees blockade delivery trucksau.finance.yahoo.com Striking French workers block delivery trucks at ExxonMobil refinery
Striking workers blocked delivery trucks carrying oil products, including petrol, from leaving the ExxonMobil Chemical France's Port-Jerome-Gravenchon refinery in northern France on Friday. Some 200 workers are on strike, an FNME-CGT union member said, and the action will continue until management ...
- Oregon: Providence management locks out nurses following strike
https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112657397018831893
https://www.oregonrn.org/page/131
- Starbucks Workers Union sabocat
https://classautonomy.info/what-worked-and-what-didnt-a-history-of-organizing-at-starbucks/
- "Aramark makes billions and billions of profit every year, and they don’t want to treat us right" - employee works three jobs at three venues, can barely afford diabetes medicationwww.inquirer.com In the battle over Philly stadium wages, Fat Cat speaks loudly while offering nary a ‘meow’
Unite Here union employed a whiskered inflatable to taunt Aramark, the giant, Philadelphia-based food-and-services company.
- Employees vote unanimously to form Mississippi's first unionized Starbuckswww.wjtv.com Workers form Mississippi’s first unionized Starbucks
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Starbucks workers at the Interstate 55 and Northside location voted unanimously to unionize their store Monday night. Starbucks Workers United announced tha…
- New Zealand: government cuts program ensuring disabled workers get at least minimum wageunion.org.nz NZCTU slams Government cutting disabled workers wages as disgraceful - NZCTU
The NZCTU is slamming a decision by the Government in Budget 2024 to cut a programme which ensured that disabled workers are paid the minimum wage.
- Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor lawwww.cnbc.com Amazon fined $5.9 million for over 59,000 violations of California labor laws
Officials investigated two Amazon warehouses in Southern California and found they "failed to provide written notice of quotas."
- Over 10,000 truck drivers demonstrate at Korean National Assembly, "Road transport workers shouldn't have to choose between safety and making a living"www.itfglobal.org Outraged at rising deaths on roads, 10,000 Korean truck drivers rally for new Safe Rates legislation | ITF Global
With working conditions deteriorating and road traffic deaths surging in South Korea, truck drivers’ outrage is leading to mass protest.<
- NLRB orders Station Casinos to bargain with union after election interference including serving workers steaks branded 'VOTE NO!'www.huffpost.com This Company Served Workers Steaks Branded 'VOTE NO!' Ahead Of A Union Election
Labor officials found that Station Casinos broke the law on numerous occasions. Now, even though the union lost its election, the casinos may have to bargain with it anyway.
- Spain: thousands demonstrate, "trade unionism is not a crime"
https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112635331236924274
- Corporate takeover of Supreme Court: all but one justice vote in favor of Starbuckswww.dailykos.com The Supreme Court is proving to be a clear and present danger to workers, unions, and life itself
The Supreme Court’s pro-corporate rulings highlight their detrimental impact on workers, unions, and environmental sustainability while advocating for reforms to reclaim democratic principles. The Supreme Court is now a clear and present danger. Watch...
- Mexico: steelworkers blockade steel plants for fair share
https://www.industriall-union.org/strike-for-fair-working-conditions-at-arcelormittal-in-mexico
- How the most pro-business SCOTUS in history could hobble the labor movement
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/9823448
> Driving the news: The high court voted 8-1 in favor of Starbucks in a case the company filed against the National Labor Relations Board involving the so-called Memphis 7, a group of unionizing workers who said they were unlawfully fired after they appeared in a TV news segment. > > - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's effectively become the court's lone labor supporter, wrote the dissent. > > - The decision will make it harder for the NLRB, the agency that administers the national labor law, to go after employers for violating its rules.
- Australia: cleaners for private contractors show signs of deceptive recruiting, debt bondage, even forced labourunitedworkers.org.au NSW SCHOOL CLEANING ‘A SLAVERY RISK’: COMMISSIONER
After 30 years of outsourced cleaning in NSW schools and government buildings a significant warning has been issued by the NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner that these arrangements pose a serious modern slavery risk, with the Commissioner suggesting the NSW Government considers returning cleaners to dir
- Spain: Thousands of CNT members to demonstrate for Suiza 6 (labor activists protesting far right owners of La Suiza) who were sentenced to 3.5 years by judge with history of imprisoning union membersdaytonaslimwrites.wordpress.com Unionism is not a crime!: The case of the Suiza 6
Six members of the CNT in northern Spain have been sentenced to three and a half years each for charges of “coercion and obstruction of justice”. Apparently in Spain union activity can still land o…
- Washington state: union offered highest wage in history by management, but would have stripped them of right to strike. 90% of voters reject offerwashingtonstatestandard.com Puget Sound electricians on strike vote down contractor proposal • Washington State Standard
The limited energy electricians' strike in the Puget Sound area has been going on for nearly ten weeks.
- Singapore: ‘Industrial peace’ is what governments use to justify higher investments in police to break strikes, to bust unions. It’s very nice sounding, but it has very violent connotations.labourreview.org The Case for an Independent Singaporean Labor Movement
Editor's Note: Behind the image of Singapore as a wealthy city-state with an affluent population is the reality of a labor movement dominated by the state-controlled National Trades Union Congress and a tripartite system that disadvantages workers. In recent years, a new radical collective, Workers ...
- Amazon India: employees made to pledge not to take water or bathroom breaks in 50°C temperatureswww.independent.co.uk Amazon workers ‘made to pledge not to take breaks’ during 50C heatwave
As India’s heatwave intensifies, warehouse employees demand corporate accountability for hazardous working conditions
- Washington state: farm workers excluded from union and collective bargaining rights, face retaliation for standing up against mushroom company. In solidarity, ILWU refuses to load company shipmentswww.thestand.org 'We want a labor law that protects all farm workers'
Windmill Farms mushroom workers and UFW President Teresa Romero come to Seattle to share their struggle to fight exploitation and unionize. By SARAH TUCKER SEATTLE (May 30, 2024) — Farm workers at Windmill Mushroom traveled to Seattle on Wednesday to shed light on their years-long struggle for dig...
- Blue Bird employees vote union in South. Management responds by curtailing lunch breaks and cracking down on worker discipline.grist.org A labor win at Georgia school bus factory shows a worker-led EV transition is possible
For nearly a century, a substantial portion of America’s iconic yellow school buses have been manufactured at a factory in Fort Valley, a town of 9,000 people surrounded by peach and pecan orchards in central Georgia. Carolyn Allen has worked at Blue Bird for 13 years, and she talks about this fact ...
- Saudi Arabia, where unions banned, set to host FIFA 2034, faces human rights challenge for forced labor, debt bondage, denying migrants access to their own documentswww.theguardian.com Saudi Arabia accused of using forced labour ahead of Fifa World Cup decision
Union’s claim of ‘epidemic of migrant worker abuses’ could force Fifa to reject state as 2034 host if it fails to meet rights obligations
- Starbucks management no longer urging anti-union vote, leads to wave of stores filing for union electionsportside.org Starbucks Resumes Bargaining Amid Fresh Wave of Unionized Stores
Starbucks has resumed bargaining with union leaders amid a fresh wave of organized stores after the world’s largest coffee chain agreed to open talks over labor agreements. After a long, embittered campaign, the Seattle-based coffee giant jointly announced a new framework with Workers United in Febr...
- Sex Workers Unite !
The brand new Sex Workers Section of the CNT union of workers and precarious of Strasbourg (CNT - STP 67) call to mobilization for the International day of the Sex Workers Struggles. This day was chosen since the church occupation of Lyon in 1975; if french laws have changed, discriminations remain.
In some city, outside any legal frame, cops are chasing sex workers in the street. The french juridiction is supposed to "protect sex workers from pimp. In fact, it sanctions people helping sex workers, including roommates or relatives, where GAFAM and platforms that actually exploit them are not threaten in any way.
The french situation is one of many incarnation of the discrimination against sex workers internationally. On the contrary of the historical sex workers organization (the STRASS), this section is organized in an inter-professional confederation (CNT) and internationally (CIT)
- Canadian summer of discontent: border management claims employees not allowed to work to rule. "People would be doing their work... How can you discipline people for following procedure?"www.thecanadianpressnews.ca A CBSA strike could soon snarl border traffic. Here’s what you need to know
OTTAWA - Just as the summer travel season gets into gear, Canadians and visitors could find themselves waiting in long lines at the border — delays that could also deal
- Germany: hospital management hires union-busting law firm, dismisses union supporters without noticemastodon.social linksgruen_nbg (@linksgruen_nbg@mastodon.social)
June 4th 4pm #erlangen #solidarity demonstration with striking workers of the university clinic. https://www.instagram.com/p/C7mZLQ7twyQ/ #erl0604 The workers have been fighting for better wages for several months now. Instead of negotiating with #verdi, the clinic has fired several workers. Mor...
- From your "Friends" at the Freedom Foundation /s
Help ease the burden of inflation & the rising cost of living by opting out of your union to save hundreds every year
[Insert shopping list chart showing everything getting expensive since 2013]
- Birmingham: drivers outside Uber UK premises protest falling pay
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw993749e75o
- Union-busting firms like Littler Mendelson and Morgan Lewis advise corporate management to break labor laws because of low violation costsinthesetimes.com Corporations Have Very Good Reasons to Break Labor Laws and Bust Unions
Workers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws.
- Finland: right-wing government restricts political and sympathy strikeswww.industriall-union.org Finnish government restricts right to strike
In violation of international labour standards, the Finnish parliament has approved new laws that effectively limits the right to strike in the country. Political strikes are now severely restricted, as is the right to sympathy strikes, a measure often used in the Nordic countries, like in the Tesla...
- First ever Samsung strike, employees asking for raise and bonus pegged to company earningsau.finance.yahoo.com Samsung Electronics union calls first-ever strike
A full-scale strike at the firm could have an impact on the global supply chains of electronics.
- Australia, hospital worker strike: "Nurses and support workers don’t expect to get rich working in public hospitals, but they certainly shouldn’t expect to be worse off every year"unitedworkers.org.au WA HOSPITAL WORKERS TO STOP WORK, EDUCATION WORKERS ACT TO DEMAND FAIR PAY RISE
WHEN: 12 noon today, Wednesday, May 29 WHERE: Perth Children’s Hospital WHAT: Hundreds of hospital workers will stop work today, with education workers also taking action across the state, to demand a fair payrise. VISUALS: Two United Workers Union members speak out about the cost of living
- India: unions call for end to outsourcing, withdrawal from WTO, policies favoring farmers and labourers, return of former pensions, release of union activistsindianexpress.com Amid Lok Sabha poll heat in Punjab, a rally of 24 trade unions stresses ‘need for struggles’
A Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union leader criticises parties for fielding nine sitting MLAs, whose victory in the Lok Sabha elections he says would overburden the exchequer, by necessitating bypolls.
