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)
What happened? (sh.itjust.works)
https://mastodon.social/@masterdon1312/111733144772189445
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)
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)
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1463201...
You don't NEED a weekend. The concept is barely 100 years old. (sh.itjust.works)
https://kolektiva.social/@The_Augusto/111603457924181949
College athletes open to unionization's potential (www.politico.com)
Teacher strike: "Public sector strikes are illegal in Massachusetts... it is only illegal to strike if you lose." (www.liberationnews.org)
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)
Do you want to discover what we do? Do you want to participate and contribute? Do you want to know how to get organized? Do you want to discover a chapter near you?...
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