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
App delivery companies exploit workers, customers to drive money into hands of executives and Wall Street, part of larger pattern of corporations buying control of workers and their communities. (nyc.streetsblog.org)
Argentina: Milei government's anti-labour laws ruled unconstitutional, privatisation halted (www.itfglobal.org)
Orlando unionization: "JetBlue is in the process of trying to intimidate the living daylights out of every single worker not to sign a card" (www.orlandoweekly.com)
"Workers in Benin are suffering. Everything is expensive and human rights are violated on a daily basis." Protesters tear gassed; union members arrested in Benin. (www.barrons.com)
VW: A lot of workers like myself are working for multi-billion dollar corporations and are barely able to afford groceries... I can't afford to live in Chattanooga, I have to live 40 minutes away (www.youtube.com)
Shawn Fain EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW on historic UAW victory in Chattanooga (youtu.be)
Formerly Anti-Union Volkswagen Worker Explains Why He Switched to Pro-Union (www.youtube.com)
UAW charges Mercedes, in Germany, with violation of German law and human rights. Every Mercedes plant in the world is unionized except the two in the US (uaw.org)
Why Americans Overwhelmingly Back Unions Now with UAW President Shawn Fain interview (youtu.be)
At Labor Notes conference, a sense of mission and of solidarity (www.thechiefleader.com)
New Zealand solidarity: junior doctors to strike not for themselves, but to prevent pay cut for colleagues, did not want to see anyone left behind (www.rnz.co.nz)
UAW victory at Volkswagen an inspiration to create more democratic workplaces across the world... the workplace is the forge for democracy, from where it spreads to enrich society (www.ituc-csi.org)
India: heatwave regulation limits allowed hours of work, ignored by employers forcing employees to continue, workers also unable to afford working less hours a day (www.newindianexpress.com)
Argentina: Union condemns IMF austerity, Milei government, Senators voting themselves 170% raise while half of population in poverty (www.ituc-csi.org)
Volkswagen employees vote 2628 in favor of UAW, 985 against, ignoring governors of Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama (www.npr.org)
A Great Labor Explosion: Will Auto Workers Unionize in Trump Country? (www.thebignewsletter.com)
After Ten-Year Battle, a Younger Generation Leads the Way at Volkswagen (prospect.org)
Costco Korea strike: management consistently refuses contract negotiations despite control of one of the most profitable Costco stores in the world (uniglobalunion.org)
Kenya: With IMF pressure, government trying to cut intern-doctor salary to a third, threatens to fire strikers, arrest union leaders, cut public sector. Health spending 1/3 of WHO recommendation (publicservices.international)
University of California attempts to exclude thousands of graduate student researchers from bargaining unit, losing rights to timely pay, protection from discrimination and abuse, worker's comp (docs.google.com)
Disneyland: Magic United to vote to unionize, performer wore black contact lenses that stained her eyes gray, paid less than someone in union (finance.yahoo.com)
Korea: Samsung barricades office after union planned to demonstrate in building’s lobby (sh.itjust.works)
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1137217