Teamsters ready to strike at Anheuser-Busch, “We’re looking for the American Dream. We need to share in our profits and we need to bring up the working class better than it was before.” (www.theguardian.com)
Largest strike in history of Northern Ireland, pay falling behind inflation for more than a decade (www.unitetheunion.org)
New Zealand ELE Group receivership: Many terminated still waiting for final payment from Deloitte, sleeping in cars, relying on community food support (www.scoop.co.nz)
Classic from 2001 - New Contract Gives Disney Workers Clean Underwear (www.latimes.com)
UAW aims to unionize Hyundai: “They brag about billion-dollar this, billion-dollar that, but when it comes time for us to stand in a line and ask, we get nothing but excuses." (aldailynews.com)
Canada: CEO gets 24% raise, while increasing shifts from 8 to 12 hours, and forcing weekend work (archive.ph)
"Capitalism has outlived its usefulness" -MLK (kolektiva.social)
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Chicago: employees that walk to work organize 100% sick out during cold spell, boss caves, payed closure until Wednesday (freeradical.zone)
Northern Ireland: umbrella union not yet ready to endorse potential civil disobedience by member union (www.irishnews.com)
IWW Bosses Lied to Membership in Apparent Effort to Cheat Opponent (onebiginvestigation.com)
Massachusetts: teachers conduct illegal strike, win 60% raise for lowest paid assistants (labornotes.org)
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)
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)
Québec strikes: phrase “exploiting the women” banned from parliament, “Too bad it’s not forbidden to exploit them instead” (labornotes.org)
Kenya: Healthcare workers' pay regularly delayed, give government a week to address issues before strike (www.standardmedia.co.ke)
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)
Railroad workers intimidated into putting speed ahead of safety (www.peoplesworld.org)
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