Sweden: 7/10 retail employees work while sick due to inadequate pay and covering for understaffing ( uniglobalunion.org )
Trader Joe’s Wine Shop begins union drive, closed by management with "insidious" attempt to bust NLRB, taking labor rights "back to 1920" ( www.otdowntown.com )
UK: Radiographers join protest against anti-strike legislation, ignored by major media ( www.sor.org )
Bahamas hotel union to escalate industrial action: "If one of my members, just one, is impeded from exercising their rights it's no holds barred and the gloves are off." ( www.tribune242.com )
Hyundai profit up 75% last three years - no sick days, 3 personal days, hauled into HR for talking about unions ( labornotes.org )
SEIU: Java Blend Coffee retaliates against labor activists under guise of layoffs ( finance.yahoo.com )
Nickelodeon exploits desires to work on "dream jobs": Getting in and realizing it paid the same as or less than most retail jobs was horrifying. ( labornotes.org )
Finland: hundreds of thousands on strike against right-wing attacks on labor and social security ( www.theguardian.com )
“What are you going to do, then? Sit back and take it?” a cross-generational interview ( upstatenyiww.wpcomstaging.com )
CEO of Arena Group resigned from board of directors the day of Sports Illustrated layoffs, said union-busting was one of the reasons he quit ( archive.ph )
Japan: Education union calls for government action as teachers average daily workload exceeds 11 hours ( www.ei-ie.org )
Argentina: Milei says 40k participated in general strike, organizers say 1.5M ( publicservices.international )
Burned out pharmacists seek union representation as CVS merges with Aetna and Caremark - "you treat your employees a certain way for so long they stop wanting to work for you" ( actionnetwork.org )
Trader Joe's accused of retaliation, firing union supporter, spreading false information. Like SpaceX, attempts to declare labor board unconstitutional. ( www.huffpost.com )
UFW: Agricultural employers attempt to strip right to form union from workers with H2A visas ( ufw.org )
UK: Conservative attack on right to strike echoes Thatcher's destruction of GCHQ union ( www.mirror.co.uk )
Japan: Amazon says workers for subcontractors not direct employees, refuses collective bargaining ( mainichi.jp )
Finland: Trains, metros, buses, trams, energy sector to join mass strike against government plans to prevent industrial action ( www.barrons.com )
On the Quebec general strike: fighting back against right-wing government's austerity policy ( jacobin.com )