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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
Photo: Workers march in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 1, 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
https://apnews.com/article/may-day-rallies-labor-rights-workers-economy-0c8605802cb451061eeb71f83bdef5fa
Ghana: workers walk out on regional minister during speech, "Since the minister has decided not to fulfil whatever we have asked him to do, we don’t even want to listen to him." (citinewsroom.com)
“We work to live, not to die” - Labour Day photos in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey (www.aljazeera.com)
Korea: unions to hold Labor Day rallies, call for President to step down (sh.itjust.works)
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240430050576 [Photo May 1, 2023]
Kenya: unions to protest in solidarity with doctors still waiting for implementation of 2017 agreement, government threatening union leaders (www.msn.com)
Ireland: Inaugural Trade Union Week sees union activists at events throughout Dublin - “Every worker is better in a trade union.” (dublinpeople.com)
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)
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)
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)
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
Management threatens to replace Canadian Air Navigation Specialists Association members with scabs after they vote 95% to strike (www.unifor.org)
Greeks strike to win back labor rights removed as temporary measure during bailout-era, “our rights are not utopia” (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
Union worker not protected from suspension during strike, British law ruled in violation of European Convention on Human Rights after 5 years (www.reuters.com)
Sesame Street contract ending: parents and families around world might ask why bosses are ignoring their company’s own messages of kindness and fairness (variety.com)
Writers have unanimously authorized strike...
New Zealand: Union fights moves to cut WorkSafe, "We already have a poor health and safety record in this country with a fatality rate double that of Australia" (www.psa.org.nz)
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)
"Amazon and Walmart are excessively watching their warehouse workers. So much so that they’ve entered a dystopic era of extreme surveillance" (www.instagram.com)
Unionizing archaeologists fight blacklisting, union-busting law firms, firing of organizers, and reclassification of employees as ineligible (jacobin.com)
Sportswear owner fired employees after they vote to join union, ordered to reinstate employees and pay back wages, instead shut down business and reopened same business under new name (wisconsinexaminer.com)
Ford employees get $10,400 profit sharing because of union, remember this next time boss says unions don't work (mstdn.ca)
Western University: 2000 teaching assistants picketing, wages well below poverty, struggling with rent, management encouraging crossing of picket lines, filling roles with non-union members (london.ctvnews.ca)