UAW bump: Tesla joins other nonunion companies in increasing pay. “As great as these raises are, they still fall far short of what the companies can afford and what autoworkers are worth.” ( nationalpost.com )
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When Railroad Workers Get Hurt on the Job, Some Supervisors Go to Extremes to Keep It Quiet ( www.propublica.org )
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AFSCME: Denver Art Museum employees seek union recognition for living wage, more democratic workplace ( www.damworkersunited.org )
Argentina: "Biggest blow to employment rights since dictatorship of 1970s" - Milei seeking to delegate legislative powers to executive (himself) for at least two years ( theconversation.com )
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UAW at Mercedes: profits up 200% past 3 years, $1.9 billion spent on shareholders while employee wages stagnate. "I’m full-time now, but I’m still living paycheck to paycheck." ( www.theguardian.com )
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Ontario hospital union: 62% exhausted, 41% dread going to work. Unions and public oppose Conservatives’ attack on health care. ( www.readthemaple.com )
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Austerity Has Always Been a Project to Empower Capital at the Expense of Workers ( jacobin.com )
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Québec strikes: phrase “exploiting the women” banned from parliament, “Too bad it’s not forbidden to exploit them instead” ( labornotes.org )
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Malta unions increase membership: pilot union up 67%, tour guide union up 87%, among others ( www.maltatoday.com.mt )
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Kenya: Healthcare workers' pay regularly delayed, give government a week to address issues before strike ( www.standardmedia.co.ke )
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Solar employees join UAW, management hires anti-union consultants with "96% success rate" and lays off 40% of workforce - claims not union-busting ( www.theguardian.com )
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From musicians to waste collection - list of sympathy strikes against Tesla Sweden ( www.streetinsider.com )
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Pete’s Frootique employee: I used to feel embarrassed that I’m in my thirties with two jobs and can’t afford to move out from my parents’ house, but that is not my shame to bear — it’s my employer’s. ( atlantic.ctvnews.ca )
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SpaceX: Hundreds of employees sign letter calling Musk an embarrassment, management fires 8 activists, sues to declare NLRB unconstitutional ( www.forbes.com )
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Nordic workers took on Elon Musk in 2023. Here’s what could happen next | CNN Business ( edition.cnn.com )
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Shawn Fain: “We Cannot Bomb Our Way to Peace.” ( inthesetimes.com )
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NYC Anti-War Labor Rally for Ceasefire and Justice in Palestine ( yt.artemislena.eu )
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35 UPS employees let go after voting union, Teamsters threaten strike, UPS reinstates employees ( www.wave3.com )
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"My Workplace Is Uniquely Bad" - A kind of disordered thinking that every organiser will encounter. ( libcom.org )
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Before we judge Gen Z harshly for their take on the grind of work, as a Boomer I’m here to remind you that Dolly wrote the same message over 40 years ago ( mastodon.social )
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