Pouring $18 Superbowl beers for $14.25 an hour: "I work three jobs and I still qualify for Medicaid" ( www.motherjones.com )
Don’t Call Them Bums: The Unsung History of America’s Hard-Working Hoboes ( www.collectorsweekly.com )
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 )
Chicago: employees that walk to work organize 100% sick out during cold spell, boss caves, payed closure until Wednesday ( freeradical.zone )
Washington state: union offered highest wage in history by management, but would have stripped them of right to strike. 90% of voters reject offer ( washingtonstatestandard.com )
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 )
Pearson: Airline catering employees vote 96% to strike, wages frozen during pandemic to help company, now management brags about profitability while offering raises as low as 89 cents an hour ( teamsters.ca )
Quebec: Airbus employees vote 99.6% against offer below inflation, 98.9% vote for strike ( www.thecanadianpressnews.ca )
Corporate takeover of Supreme Court: all but one justice vote in favor of Starbucks ( www.dailykos.com )
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 shipments ( www.thestand.org )
Niagara strike against forced overtime: scabs can't keep up, management asks for custody agreements if employee wants time with kids ( archive.ph )
Google introduced mandatory training for full-timers on interacting with contractors to ensure it can avoid claims of “co-employment”, make clear that it’s not a “joint employer” ( fortune.com )
Mexico: Teachers to launch nationwide strike against neoliberalism and disappeared activists. Previous strike led to jailing of leaders, mass firing of teachers, and Nochixtlán Massacre ( kolektiva.social )
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 )
"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 )
"Amazon and Walmart are excessively watching their warehouse workers. So much so that they’ve entered a dystopic era of extreme surveillance" ( www.instagram.com )
Sportswear owner fired employees after they vote to join union, ordered to reinstate employees and pay back wages, instead shut down business and reopened same business under new name ( wisconsinexaminer.com )
Ford employees get $10,400 profit sharing because of union, remember this next time boss says unions don't work ( mstdn.ca ) Occupy Democrats writes: 58,000 Ford workers are getting profit-sharing checks of up to $10,400, because their union negotiated it. Remember this next time your boss says unions don’t work! ALT
Tesla Sweden: plans to build and open Supercharger stations on hold after unions refuse to connect them to power grid ( www.teslarati.com )
Ireland: 67% of people between 16 and 24 years positively disposed to unions, significant and growing positive shift ( www.thejournal.ie )
"Just like the minimum wage, good employers have nothing to fear" - UK union on proposed standards for employers ( www.morningstaronline.co.uk )
Sri Lanka: IMF continues to endorse and even encourage a President who is suppressing public dissent, using brute police and military force, trade union busting and other means to push IMF reforms. ( slguardian.org )