Tesla Boosts Pay for US Factory Workers That the UAW Wants to Unionize - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)
What Happened When Solar Installers in New York Tried to Unionize (heatmap.news)
‘We don’t have a say’: workers join push to unionize flagship Volkswagen plant (www.theguardian.com)
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)
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)
Malta unions increase membership: pilot union up 67%, tour guide union up 87%, among others (www.maltatoday.com.mt)
Boeing machinists consider strike to recapture past losses: "We're watching the UAW negotiations and strike very closely. They're doing some very creative things." (www.aviationpros.com)
Kenya: Healthcare workers' pay regularly delayed, give government a week to address issues before strike (www.standardmedia.co.ke)
India: care workers gather as government prohibits striking (sh.itjust.works)
https://archive.is/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/govt-invokes-esma-on-agitating-anganwadi-workers-prohibits-strike-for-6-months/article67713450.ece
Brazil: students protest right-wing government's austerity and privatization (www.youtube.com)
Minimum wage increase "not even enough for rice" says labor group in Philippines (mb.com.ph)
Starbucks Faces New Pressure Over Union Campaign (www.nytimes.com)
SpaceX: Hundreds of employees sign letter calling Musk an embarrassment, management fires 8 activists, sues to declare NLRB unconstitutional (www.forbes.com)
Mobile reverse engineering to empower the gig economy workers and labor unions (media.ccc.de)
Germany: Doctors strike because of increasing costs and bureaucracy, lowered earnings, forced to work for free in times of emergency (www.dw.com)
Argentina, "The homeland is not for sale" - Thousands protest bills that privatize public services and remove rent control, labor and strike protection, price gouging protection, pension increase (sh.itjust.works)
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20231227-thousands-in-argentina-protest-milei-s-proposed-economic-reforms-deregulation
Railroad workers intimidated into putting speed ahead of safety (www.peoplesworld.org)
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You don't NEED a weekend. The concept is barely 100 years old. (sh.itjust.works)
https://kolektiva.social/@The_Augusto/111603457924181949
More Than 1,000 UK Union Workers Blockade 4 Weapons Factories That Arm Israel (truthout.org)
Protesters carried banners reading, “Weapons made here kill in Gaza” and, “This factory arms genocide.”...
Tech Workers Coalition Global Onboarding Call - Tomorrow (us02web.zoom.us)
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Your enemy is not the people struggling to survive (sh.itjust.works)
Source: https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/111265689858916785
UAW, 1937: Instead of you paying him, he pays you (sh.itjust.works)
Source: https://mastodon.social/@znetwork/111116170765088040