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Niagara strike against forced overtime: scabs can't keep up, management asks for custody agreements if employee wants time with kids (archive.ph)
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)
Freeloader (sh.itjust.works)
https://mastodon.social/@bhasic/112464688887406110
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)
Mercedes official “principles” say executives remain neutral in organizing campaigns. German government investigating Mercedes for illegal union-busting. (www.labornotes.org)
Master control yes man: movies, press, advertising, radio... (sh.itjust.works)
https://mastodon.social/@bhasic/112452413991892485
Mercedes management cuts time to discuss quality and safety to force employees to watch anti-union videos (labornotes.org)
Colombia: 64 human rights defenders, social leaders and peace agreement signatories have been killed so far this year (www.industriall-union.org)
Mercedes Tuscaloosa brings in anti-union pastor, "companies give enough money to churches to purchase their long-term loyalty, and rely on the church leaders to preach an anti-union message." (labornotes.org)
Alabama: companies that voluntarily recognize unions barred from state economic incentives like grants, loans, tax credits (au.news.yahoo.com)
UK teacher strike: union would "not accept privatisation of our schools through a politicised Ofsted process" (www.morningstaronline.co.uk)
Sweden: IF Metall, with $921 million strike fund, may initiate sympathy strikes at Tesla licence plate company, or Tesla internal staff in administrative, HR, and finance roles (www.reuters.com)
Delaware: 2/3 of 400 physicians sign union cards (whyy.org)
Mercedes Tuscaloosa: "I started as a temp making $17.50 an hour. I’m full time now, but I’m still living paycheck to paycheck" (www.peoplesworld.org)
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)
Germany: Construction workers initiate the first strike in 17 years, plan spread to other regions across Germany (aussiedlerbote.de)
Migrants aren't pushing down wages. It's your boss. (sh.itjust.works)
https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112436295100404451
Apple employees authorize first strike in U.S. retail locations, face retaliation. Petitions for union elections up 35% from Oct 1 to March 31 compared to same period last year. (www.washingtonpost.com)
UK: British Engines employees see wages fall by 18% since 2019, "British Engines’ workers are sick and tired of seeing their pay go down year after year while the company makes millions in profits" (www.unitetheunion.org)
Cambodia Supreme Court supports verdicts against workers for union activities, including 2 years for union president (www.iuf.org)
Australia: 76% of cleaners delay medical treatment, 89% cut back on heating, over half miss meals (unitedworkers.org.au)
The owner - the man who invested his capital - he's important - in fact he's the whole cheese (sh.itjust.works)
https://mastodon.social/@bhasic/112430446839042811
Organizing at Grinnell: "whether that’s for an autoworker in Detroit, a Grinnell student worker, a Teamster or a teacher or a journalist it doesn’t matter. We’re all in the same fight together" (jacobin.com)
IWGB establishes first union in UK for workers in tabletop and board game industry (iwgb.org.uk)
Boeing locks out its firefighters; in solidarity, picket lines joined by Teamsters, Boeing engineers (SPEEA), longshore workers, electricians, ironworkers, and pipefitters (labornotes.org)
Argentina general strike: The Argentinian media, aligned with the Milei government, have responded by launching an anti-union campaign with the aim of promoting antipathy towards trade unions (www.itfglobal.org)
Apple union-busting: confiscated union flyers, interrogated employees, mandatory meetings with coercive statements against employees, accused of excluding union members from benefits (www.forbes.com)
Mexico: Teachers to launch nationwide strike against neoliberalism and disappeared activists. Previous strike led to jailing of leaders, mass firing of teachers, and Nochixtlán Massacre (kolektiva.social)
Melbourne Airport delays rail construction, accused of corporate greed, charging workers $12 a day to park up to 30 minutes away (www.fullyloaded.com.au)
Argentina: government targeting rights, such as collective bargaining, that support greater fairness and equality, while threatening those who protest with repression and criminalisation (sh.itjust.works)
https://www.ituc-csi.org/Argentina-why-we-stand-in-solidarity
Unionizing video game makers - workers struggle with "passion tax", writers for Red Dead Redemption 2 worked a hundred hours a week for three weeks (www.npr.org)
University of Pennsylvania: grad students vote to join UAW, 1807 for and 96 against (www.phillyvoice.com)
Bank of America employee dies after working 120 hour weeks, associates organizing strike (mstdn.social)
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1203493.page
Cambodia Supreme Court approves conviction of 9 union members for strike against billionaire's company (globeecho.com)
Finland threatens right to strike: "The Orpo Government is now dragging Finland into the group of countries that have to be held accountable internationally for their human rights violations." (www.sak.fi)
Cascadia Liquor strike: management fails to stop employees in different stores from bargaining together, "Pumping money into union-busting is no way forward." (au.finance.yahoo.com)
Canada: rail workers may strike for safety, against windows in which workers on-call and expected to operate train for 12 hours (globalnews.ca)
Mercedes management claims they are family, "the family the company is talking about is a patriarchal one where the father takes in all the money and gives as little as possible to his subjects." (www.industriall-union.org)
Lithuania: unions fighting for right to strike - once a union decides to do it, it takes a year before workers can begin the action (www.lrt.lt)
Israel: 45 workers from Malawi arrested for "escaping" from farms (www.faceofmalawi.com)
Trinidad and Tobago: if trade unions divided, they could easily be exploited by employers - it cannot be an elite minority benefitting from country's wealth while rest of population "sucking salt." (newsday.co.tt)
Indonesia, May 1st: demonstrators march against anti-worker law, "All of us workers are just covering the expenses of the top 1 per cent" (www.thestar.com.my)
May 1st strike a shot across the bow for logistics company serving Apple, PlayStation, Fitbit and Xbox (unitedworkers.org.au)
After contract, Southwest flight attendants now highest paid in industry (sh.itjust.works)
https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/112368152131332805
Korea: “I’ll pay you soon. Don’t worry,” her boss kept telling her. Having been forced to take out a loan of 3 million won to pay for her daily expenses, Mei had no choice but to leave the farm. (english.hani.co.kr)
"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today" (sh.itjust.works)
https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112364515924380871
"For one day, workers ruled the world’s biggest streets." (sh.itjust.works)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ap-photos-workers-rule-the-streets-on-may-day/ar-AA1nZO2x