Cambodia Supreme Court supports verdicts against workers for union activities, including 2 years for union president ( www.iuf.org )
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Australia: 76% of cleaners delay medical treatment, 89% cut back on heating, over half miss meals ( unitedworkers.org.au )
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Organizing at Grinnell: "whether that’s for an autoworker in Detroit, a Grinnell student worker, a Teamster or a teacher or a journalist it doesn’t matter. We’re all in the same fight together" ( jacobin.com )
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IWGB establishes first union in UK for workers in tabletop and board game industry ( iwgb.org.uk )
Boeing locks out its firefighters; in solidarity, picket lines joined by Teamsters, Boeing engineers (SPEEA), longshore workers, electricians, ironworkers, and pipefitters ( labornotes.org )
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Argentina general strike: The Argentinian media, aligned with the Milei government, have responded by launching an anti-union campaign with the aim of promoting antipathy towards trade unions ( www.itfglobal.org )
Apple union-busting: confiscated union flyers, interrogated employees, mandatory meetings with coercive statements against employees, accused of excluding union members from benefits ( www.forbes.com )
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Melbourne Airport delays rail construction, accused of corporate greed, charging workers $12 a day to park up to 30 minutes away ( www.fullyloaded.com.au )
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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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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