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)
UAW Commits to Pouring Millions Into Organizing Non-Union Workers (www.laborpress.org)
The UAW, in a news release on Feb. 21, said it plans to spend $40 million on organizing workers in non-union auto plants and battery facilities. They also emphasized that their target area will be the South. The impetus for the push comes from the huge wins in Detroit, when the union coordinated strikes and successfully...
First ever Samsung strike, employees asking for raise and bonus pegged to company earnings (au.finance.yahoo.com)
Formerly Anti-Union Volkswagen Worker Explains Why He Switched to Pro-Union (www.youtube.com)
GDC: One year, we decided let’s share salary numbers, because we felt some of us weren’t getting paid enough. So we shared this information and we all ended up getting really nice raises that year (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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)
Pearson: Airline catering employees vote 96% to strike, wages frozen during pandemic to help company, now management brags about profitability while offering raises as low as 89 cents an hour (teamsters.ca)
Google introduced mandatory training for full-timers on interacting with contractors to ensure it can avoid claims of “co-employment”, make clear that it’s not a “joint employer” (fortune.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)
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)
Ohio nurses rally: They use dark money political groups to maintain their stranglehold on our healthcare system, prioritizing profits over the well-being of patients and those who care for them. (www.mariettatimes.com)
"Capitalism has outlived its usefulness" -MLK (kolektiva.social)
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A Great Labor Explosion: Will Auto Workers Unionize in Trump Country? (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Ubisoft France on strike: "This strike is not just about Ubisoft; it’s a call for justice for video game workers everywhere." (uniglobalunion.org)
Nickelodeon exploits desires to work on "dream jobs": Getting in and realizing it paid the same as or less than most retail jobs was horrifying. (labornotes.org)
Belfast on strike: city centre (sh.itjust.works)
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Union-busting firms like Littler Mendelson and Morgan Lewis advise corporate management to break labor laws because of low violation costs (inthesetimes.com)
St. Louis Public Schools gives most teachers a 17% raise over the next three years (www.stlpr.org)
Three weeks into strike, Del Monte management closes factory without notice or severance. By using temp agency, they avoid having to provide benefits, pensions, vacations, sick pay, etc (rabble.ca)
Colorado: union pushes for bill to protect employees who refuse to attend religious, political, and anti-union company meetings (www.cbsnews.com)
Finland: hundreds of thousands on strike against right-wing attacks on labor and social security (www.theguardian.com)
2020 study: If distribution of income of three decades after World War II continued through 2018, median yearly income of bottom 90 percent of Americans would have doubled from $50,000 to $100,000 (prospect.org)
Japan: Amazon says workers for subcontractors not direct employees, refuses collective bargaining (mainichi.jp)
Starbucks relents after record 21 stores filed for union authorization elections last week, union-aligned fund put three pro-union directors up for election to Starbucks board (labornotes.org)
Greece: tens of thousands on strike, "suffering from the consequences of the capitalist crisis, of social inequalities and impoverishment, while their trade union and social rights are under attack" (pamehellas.gr)
