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 )
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 )
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 )
Strike for Palestine on May Day and Nakba Day ( freelancejournalistsunion.org )
After contract, Southwest flight attendants now highest paid in industry ( sh.itjust.works )
https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/112368152131332805
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 )
"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today" ( sh.itjust.works )
https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112364515924380871
"For one day, workers ruled the world’s biggest streets." ( sh.itjust.works )
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ap-photos-workers-rule-the-streets-on-may-day/ar-AA1nZO2x
Photo: Workers march in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 1, 2024 ( sh.itjust.works )
https://apnews.com/article/may-day-rallies-labor-rights-workers-economy-0c8605802cb451061eeb71f83bdef5fa
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 )
My therapist sent me this on May Day! ( hexbear.net )
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2436414...
“We work to live, not to die” - Labour Day photos in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey ( www.aljazeera.com )
Korea: unions to hold Labor Day rallies, call for President to step down ( sh.itjust.works )
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240430050576 [Photo May 1, 2023]
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 )
This is the South’s Next Worker Uprising ( www.youtube.com )
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2427667...
So you get to vote on who your boss is right? ( sh.itjust.works )
https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112357397807224815