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unions Cephalotrocity • 1 day ago • 100%

Air Canada strike averted, but reliance on binding arbitration still alarms some.

rabble.ca

unions Cephalotrocity • 2 days ago • 96%

Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

www.cnbc.com

unions cyu • 5 days ago • 100%

Boeing strike: entry-level workers cannot live on their wage. “At Panda Express, they’re making as much as a grade-three mechanic” https://archive.ph/https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-machinists-union-to-strike-walkout-starts-at-midnight-friday/

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unions cyu • 2 days ago • 90%

Samsung India: government arrests employees for planning to march without permission

www.theadvocate.com.au

unions cyu • 4 days ago • 100%

Kenya airport strike against takeover by second-richest man in India, "We are just a step away from selling our country."

www.dw.com

unions grue • 3 days ago • 100%

Sometimes we have to escalate to be heard when we’re demanding a livable future

www.latimes.com

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13355390 > Archived copies of the article: > * [archive.today](https://archive.ph/6SZOq) > * [ghostarchive.org](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/UgBhc) > * [web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20240915141505/https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-15/sometimes-we-have-to-escalate-to-be-heard-when-were-demanding-a-livable-future)

unions cyu • 5 days ago • 100%

Boeing strike: management attempts to find replacement work. During 2008 strike, FAA ordered replacement work to stop because it was subpar.

labornotes.org

unions cyu • 1 week ago • 95%

New South Wales nurses and midwives strike: "I'm doing this for all the junior nurses I work with who cannot afford to take a day off to strike because they have to pay rent and the cost of living" https://mastodon.sdf.org/@tregeagle/113107466334366504

unions cyu • 1 week ago • 98%

Amazon: hiring anti-union consultants who advise companies on ways to skirt or violate federal laws in order to crush labor organizing

truthout.org

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unions cyu • 1 week ago • 100%

Ireland: travel time pay, cut due to 2008 financial crash austerity, still not restored https://www.bwint.org/cms/support-mebsca-workers-strike-in-ireland-3191

unions cyu • 2 weeks ago • 100%

Brussels: Audi employees on strike, seize keys to completed and unfinished vehicles

www.brusselstimes.com

unions cyu • 2 weeks ago • 99%

Tennessee EV battery company recognizes union after majority signs union cards. Unionization did not face management threats or intimidation.

portside.org

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unions cyu • 2 weeks ago • 100%

CFMEU protest: Two hundred and eighty union officials, not alleged to have committed any crime, have lost their positions

https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/defend-unions-defend-cfmeu

unions cyu • 2 weeks ago • 99%

Firestone fired 2,000 employees, rehired them as contractors performing same work, with significantly lower pay, no benefits, no protections from union agreement

www.solidaritycenter.org

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unions cyu • 2 weeks ago • 100%

India: employees terminated after protesting injustice and extortion. Management refuses to reinstate them, despite being ordered to do so

www.thenewsminute.com

unions return2ozma • 2 weeks ago • 98%

Workers at General Motors battery plant in Tennessee unionize and will get pay raise

abcnews.go.com

unions cyu • 2 weeks ago • 96%

Test Drive game developers on strike against parent company, in support of sister studio

traxion.gg

unions cyu • 2 weeks ago • 100%

Capital is never satisfied paying ANYONE - blue collar labor only begins building when slavery is no longer an option https://union.place/@PeachMcD/113069087316714118

unions return2ozma • 2 weeks ago • 90%

The State of the Unions, Labor Day 2024

prospect.org

unions cyu • 2 weeks ago • 100%

London nurses on strike - "staffing crisis and underinvestment cannot be cured by crushing workers with unsustainable workloads" https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2024/september/striking-guys-and-st-thomas-nurses-intensify-safe-staffing-dispute-with-series-of-protests

unions Tomassci • 2 weeks ago • 90%

Israel's Labor Federation Head Announces General Strike Following Recovery of Bodies of Six Hostages From Gaza https://archive.is/MUxmU

unions cyu • 2 weeks ago • 99%

10,000 hotel employees strike. “I have to work a second job because my job at the hotel is not enough to support my kids as a single mom”

unitehere.org

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unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Quebec: 2000 hotel employees hold surprise strike, part of rotating surprise strikes to speed contract talks

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hotel-strike-quebec-1.7309214

unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 99%

United Airlines flight attendants authorize strike by 99% - "The United management team gives themselves massive compensation increases while flight attendants struggle to pay basic bills." https://popularresistance.org/united-airlines-flight-attendants-vote-to-authorize-strike-by-99-99/

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unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

40,000 protest government takeover of CFMEU. “What have Labor and Liberal done for us in the last decade? Things should have gotten better in the last 50 years, not worse... we need a revolution.”

www.wsws.org

unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 97%

Kroger admits to price gouging while employees ask for "contractual wages we can live on. Wages that prevent homelessness" https://www.koin.com/news/portland/kroger-albertsons-merger-price-gouging-ftc-allegations-fred-meyer-workers-strike/

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unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Cornell employees remain on strike while voting on deal for cost-of-living adjustment, an end to tiers, longevity bonuses, and a wage increase of 21 to 25.4 percent over four years.

labornotes.org

unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

US: 38% of graduate students unionized, up 133% since 2012. Growth of non-tenure track faculty, postdocs, academic researchers, graduate and undergraduate students

www.theguardian.com

unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Teamsters Canada: Without the right to strike, corporate Canada will become less inclined to negotiate in good faith, knowing the government can now bust a union on a whim

teamsters.ca

unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Oregon: 45,000 Fred Meyer employees on strike. “If you see that line at one of our 28 Fred Meyers in the Portland metro area, don’t cross it, just shop somewhere else.” https://mastodon.world/@YakyuNightOwl/113040676938015174

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unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Paris: Staff at video game studio, including CEO, sends letter to studio management, say treated like galley slaves

www.ign.com

unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Australia: Electrical Trades Union accuses Labor of treachery, redirects Labor donations to fight government takeover of CFMEU https://archive.ph/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/queensland/other-queensland-union-vows-to-spend-labor-donations-on-fight-for-cfmeu-20240827-p5k5uq.html

unions cyu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Egypt: 10 striking employees arrested, location unknown. Government arrests relatives until employees turn themselves in https://www.madamasr.com/en/2024/08/27/news/u/update-10-workers-still-in-custody-after-authorities-conduct-arrests-amid-ongoing-gharbiya-factory-strike-for-minimum-wage/

unions AmbiguousProps • 3 weeks ago • 100%

4,500 Fred Meyer workers set to strike in Portland area

www.seattletimes.com

> Thousands of Fred Meyer workers in the Portland area plan to walk off the job early Wednesday, striking over alleged breaches of labor relations laws and amid contentious contract negotiations. > The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555, which represents roughly 4,500 Fred Meyer workers across the Portland area, told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Tuesday that the strike would begin at 6 a.m. Wednesday and continue nearly a week, until 8 a.m. next Tuesday.