Unionizing video game makers - workers struggle with "passion tax", writers for Red Dead Redemption 2 worked a hundred hours a week for three weeks ( www.npr.org )
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University of Pennsylvania: grad students vote to join UAW, 1807 for and 96 against ( www.phillyvoice.com )
Bank of America employee dies after working 120 hour weeks, associates organizing strike ( mstdn.social )
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Cambodia Supreme Court approves conviction of 9 union members for strike against billionaire's company ( globeecho.com )
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Anti-UAW Media in Alabama Is Owned by Influential GOP Consultant With Corporate Ties ( truthout.org )
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Finland threatens right to strike: "The Orpo Government is now dragging Finland into the group of countries that have to be held accountable internationally for their human rights violations." ( www.sak.fi )
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Cascadia Liquor strike: management fails to stop employees in different stores from bargaining together, "Pumping money into union-busting is no way forward." ( au.finance.yahoo.com )
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Canada: rail workers may strike for safety, against windows in which workers on-call and expected to operate train for 12 hours ( globalnews.ca )
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Mercedes management claims they are family, "the family the company is talking about is a patriarchal one where the father takes in all the money and gives as little as possible to his subjects." ( www.industriall-union.org )
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Lithuania: unions fighting for right to strike - once a union decides to do it, it takes a year before workers can begin the action ( www.lrt.lt )
Israel: 45 workers from Malawi arrested for "escaping" from farms ( www.faceofmalawi.com )
Trinidad and Tobago: if trade unions divided, they could easily be exploited by employers - it cannot be an elite minority benefitting from country's wealth while rest of population "sucking salt." ( newsday.co.tt )
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Indonesia, May 1st: demonstrators march against anti-worker law, "All of us workers are just covering the expenses of the top 1 per cent" ( www.thestar.com.my )
May 1st strike a shot across the bow for logistics company serving Apple, PlayStation, Fitbit and Xbox ( unitedworkers.org.au )
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Strike for Palestine on May Day and Nakba Day ( freelancejournalistsunion.org )
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Korea: “I’ll pay you soon. Don’t worry,” her boss kept telling her. Having been forced to take out a loan of 3 million won to pay for her daily expenses, Mei had no choice but to leave the farm. ( english.hani.co.kr )
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Ghana: workers walk out on regional minister during speech, "Since the minister has decided not to fulfil whatever we have asked him to do, we don’t even want to listen to him." ( citinewsroom.com )
“We work to live, not to die” - Labour Day photos in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey ( www.aljazeera.com )
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Kenya: unions to protest in solidarity with doctors still waiting for implementation of 2017 agreement, government threatening union leaders ( www.msn.com )
Ireland: Inaugural Trade Union Week sees union activists at events throughout Dublin - “Every worker is better in a trade union.” ( dublinpeople.com )
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App delivery companies exploit workers, customers to drive money into hands of executives and Wall Street, part of larger pattern of corporations buying control of workers and their communities. ( nyc.streetsblog.org )
Argentina: Milei government's anti-labour laws ruled unconstitutional, privatisation halted ( www.itfglobal.org )
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Orlando unionization: "JetBlue is in the process of trying to intimidate the living daylights out of every single worker not to sign a card" ( www.orlandoweekly.com )
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"Workers in Benin are suffering. Everything is expensive and human rights are violated on a daily basis." Protesters tear gassed; union members arrested in Benin. ( www.barrons.com )
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