IWW and syndicalism

IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3h ago • 100%

Edmonton Public Schools to strike: members haven’t seen meaningful wage increase in 12 years. Twelve years ago, you could live off this income as a single person, but you can’t now.

edmontonjournal.com

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1d ago • 100%

Canada: Amazon attempts to rewrite labor law to decertify union

www.theglobeandmail.com

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1d ago • 100%

CVS strike: management accused of surveillance of workers, retaliation for union activities and prohibiting workers from engaging in union activities

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3d ago • 100%

When nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents

https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/113321774350369519

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1d ago • 100%

UK: HelloFresh warehouse employees raise concerns about working conditions, management fires 79

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 2d ago • 100%

Employees form first Walmart warehouse union in Canada

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 4d ago • 100%

Ubisoft strike: Until proven otherwise, games only exist thanks to the workers’ labour, and good games thanks to good working conditions

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 4d ago • 100%

Union calls for reform: IMF and World Bank continue to promote austerity and deregulation that undermine workers’ rights and democracy, exacerbate inequality

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Philippines: commission rules that riders for food delivery company are employees rather than contractors

www.sunstar.com.ph

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Indonesia: Health workers to strike if minimum wage not enforced and increased after real wage decline of 30% over 10 years

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Rwanda: union grows from 200 in 2008, to 78k this year

https://www.bwint.org/cms/rwanda-union-holds-congress-celebrates-massive-increase-in-membership-3217

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1w ago • 100%

India: strike leads to political crisis over Tamil Nadu's image as "investor-friendly" state

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/samsung-india-chennai-strike-9613619/

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1w ago • 100%

UC presidents given additional two hundred thousand a year, on top of seven hundred to eight hundred thousand, while some employees sleep in cars

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Caterpillar Mexico: management continues to intimidate, retaliate, and exclude union members; public pressure forced reinstatement of union leader

www.industriall-union.org

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Italy: hooded attackers target leatherworkers on picket line, employees from other firms strike in solidarity

au.fashionnetwork.com

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 1w ago • 100%

Samsung India: government files cases against 625 employees and union activists during strike for union recognition, higher wages, and 8-hour workday

www.news9live.com

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 2w ago • 100%

Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break"

www.ragtrader.com.au

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 2w ago • 100%

McGill drops legal attempt to deny law professors right to union

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-drops-law-faculty-union-legal-challenge-1.7345324

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 2w ago • 100%

Egypt: Union activist blindfolded and arrested for encouraging strike and causing financial losses, threatened with imprisonment if strike didn't end

menasolidaritynetwork.com

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IWW and syndicalism lazeau • 2w ago • 100%

Wobbly for 10 years; new to Lemmy

Hey everyone, I've been a Wobbly (iu620) for about 10 years. I was active on Reddit until a stranger DM'ed me with personally identifiable info (for me), so I deleted my account, made a new one, and now I don't post there much. I figured I'd try Lemmy, too. So, hello comrades!

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IWW and syndicalism Five • 3w ago • 100%

Aramark Concession Workers Strike at Philly Sports Complex

unicornriot.ninja

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

GE Appliance plant, 90% union in "right-to-work" state, approve strike by 98%. 60% have to work second job, health care plan too expensive for 30%, most don't make enough for one-bedroom in city

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Maui: 98% of nurses union voters approve strike over workload, burn out, nurse-to-patient ratio

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

South African unions denounce government's bow to the IMF, neoliberal policies, privatisation, and austerity

https://saftu.org.za/archives/8570

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Serbia: manager attacks three women with previous work-related injuries, throwing chair, one woman loses consciousness. Management claims surveillance cameras not operational.

www.industriall-union.org

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Guatemala: health workers union activist murdered

publicservices.international

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 85%

Samsung India strike: management refuses to recognize union, government arrests 900

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-american-tech-workers-feel-about-joining-a-union/

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Longshoremen: It’s disgraceful foreign-owned companies make their billion-dollar profits off backs of workers, and take those earnings out of this country into pockets of foreign conglomerates

https://ilaunion.org/ila-update-monday-september-30-2024-at-11-am/

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Australia: solidarity march against government takeover of union

https://defendtheunions.cargo.site/

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Philippines: government red-tags youth activists, women’s groups, environmentalists, Indigenous peoples, journalists, and teachers. Union leader goes into hiding after layoff

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Engineering specialists at Seagate hard-drives vote overwhelmingly for union after manufacturing specialists unionized last year

https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2024/september/seagate-engineering-specialists-vote-for-representation-by-unite

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 3w ago • 100%

Samsung India: management threatens striking employees with termination if they continued with protest

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 4w ago • 100%

"My God, Roger! Only yesterday I told them we were one big, happy family!"

https://mastodon.social/@Radical_EgoCom/113199263667805102

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 4w ago • 100%

UK: Labour Party cracks down on dissenters who voted to reduce child poverty; "trade unions must become the most effective opposition if Labour keeps attacking the poorest"

https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labours-crackdown-internal-dissent-means-unions-must-step-real-opposition-neu-leader

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 4w ago • 100%

Nepal unions: "It’s not fair that billionaires can hide their wealth offshore while we are denied simple wages and security"

publicservices.international

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 4w ago • 100%

Martinique: union blocks roads with tractor-trailers, suspends bus service; another to strike over cost of living and low minimum wage. France sends anti-riot police, imposes curfew, bans protests

www.mymotherlode.com

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 4w ago • 100%

Samsung India strike: employees don't earn enough to cover basic needs and cost of living; union says management spends less than 0.3% of total production value on labor costs

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/24/samsung-workers-in-india-continue-their-strike-and-demand-recognition-of-union/

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 4w ago • 97%

Hotel owner: “If you want to join this union that you used to be in I will let you go, just so that is very clear.”

https://grapevine.is/news/2024/09/24/foreign-worker-threatened-for-joining-union/

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IWW and syndicalism cyu • 4w ago • 98%

CVS California: 7000 employees strike. "I work full-time yet can’t afford to get health insurance, which is ridiculous, because CVS owns Aetna"

www.theguardian.com

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