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The drone the IDF used to kill three British aid workers was made in the UK (www.thecanary.co)
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers – including three Britons – using a UK-made drone. The news only serves to increase pressure on the Tories to ban arms exports to Israel....
OPB reporters unionize (nwlaborpress.org)
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) and KMHD Jazz Radio on March 22 voluntarily recognized SAG-AFTRA as the bargaining representative of about 65 on-air staff, hosts, reporters, and producers....
Vancouver firm fined in grisly accident is repeat child labor offender (nwlaborpress.org)
After a 16-year-old boy lost both legs last June in a preventable workplace accident in La Center, a follow-up investigation by Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) found that his employer Rotschy LLC has committed dozens of child labor law violations....
No, the New Minimum Wage Won’t Wreck the Fast Food Industry or the Economy (capitalandmain.com)
The past decade has seen some of the most astounding price hikes and profit taking in the rich history of the major U.S. fast food companies. The numbers don’t lie....
Anti-UAW Union Buster Secretly Behind Hit Labor News Site (paydayreport.com)
LaborUnionNews.com has quickly become the “Drudge Report of Labor News”; the largest aggregator of news about unions on the web, boasting that it links to over 50 news articles a day and has posted links to more than 34,000 labor news articles since it started in 2023....
Potbelly Sandwich spent $100k to fight union (nwlaborpress.org)
Potbelly Sandwich Shop in downtown Portland paid almost $100,000 for about a month of union-busting. That’s according to mandatory disclosures the anti-union consulting firm filed March 23 with the U.S. Department of Labor....
Major League Soccer referees end month-long labor lockout (prismreports.org)
Major League Soccer (MLS) and union referees have finalized a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), ending a month-long labor lockout that saw union referees on the sidelines....
The Open-Air Detention Camps of San Diego (progressive.org)
Driving into Jacumba Hot Springs, a town eighty miles east of San Diego, California, an imposing stretch of the border wall emerges, slicing through the rugged desert terrain. Visible along the town’s main street, the thirty-foot-tall steel wall’s long shadow looms over its roughly 600 residents....
Barnes & Noble Workers Plan Union Drive at Largest U.S. Bookstore Chain (portside.org)
Workers at America’s largest chain of bookstores are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six Barnes & Noble outlets voted to organize over the past year....
A Mughal Mosque in Kenya (daily.jstor.org)
Built for Punjabi migrants brought to Africa by the British and modeled on Mughal architecture, the Jamia Masjid in Nairobi serves Kenya’s Muslim minority....
Some of Ghana’s looted artifacts will return from Britain in May | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
The Scoop...
Seven-year-old girl killed in English Channel crossing attempt (www.aljazeera.com)
Deadly incident is the third fatal English Channel crossing attempt this year....
HP is in the rent-a-printer business now (www.theverge.com)
Friends don't let their friends buy HP.
Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle (news.mongabay.com)
WESTERN PROVINCE, Kenya — In the 44 years Naomi Rita Sitati has lived in Bukirimo village in western Kenya, she has known only one system of farming, which her community has depended on for generations....
Nigeria's union workers are on strike nationwide over soaring inflation and unmet promises (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's government employees and other union workers began a new nationwide strike Tuesday that threatened to shut down key services while people are angry about soaring inflation and growing economic pain....
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...
Oil workers prevailed in a historic strike in Norway (www.svenssonstiftelsen.com)
9 British oil workers went on strike for almost a year. Now they get a collective agreement and pay rises. The LO union IE&FLT has now won a long-term strike on the Norwegian continental shelf. This happens on the evening IE&FLT was supposed to step up with sympathy strikes in several oil companies. This is not only an...
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
REI Workers Set the Stage For a Theatrical Showdown in Soho… (www.work-bites.com)
Union-busting companies know how to deal with walkouts, sickouts, boycotts — and even limited strikes — pretty handily under existing labor law. But how in the world do they confront a theatrical production that puts their exploitation and worker abuses center stage?...
One man is trying to save a language in Bangladesh with only six native speakers (globalvoices.org)
Millions of Bangladeshis will observe the International Mother Language Day on February 21, 2024, with 98 percent of them being speakers of the predominant language, Bangla. According to anthropological studies and Indigenous sources within Bangladesh, there are approximately 5 million people belonging to 48 Indigenous and...
Gender pay gap means women work first two months of the year unpaid - so today is Women's Pay Day (www.thecanary.co)
New Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis reveals Women’s Pay Day – the day when the average woman stops working for free compared to the average man – is today, Wednesday 21 February. In some industries and in some parts of the country where the gender pay gap is wider, women effectively work for free for even longer...
India’s Water Transport Workers' Union Says Won’t Help Ships Carrying Arms Bound for Israel (www.lemkininstitute.com)
The union of 3,500 workers said, “our Union members have collectively decided to refuse handling all types of weaponised cargoes. Loading and unloading these weapons helps provide organizations with the ability to kill innocent people.”...
Starbucks Union Unveils Largest 1-Day Filing With 21 Stores Joining Effort (truthout.org)
Nearly 500 Starbucks stores have filed for union representation so far....
Why Ozempic is so cheap in China (www.semafor.com)
A gray market for Ozempic is booming in China which has the world’s largest obese population of more than 200 million adults, The Wall Street Journal reported. Recent speculation about Chinese and American celebrities’ weight loss has cemented Ozempic’s reputation as a “miracle drug” for obesity in China....
1 US Worker Dies on the Job Every 96 Minutes, Latest Data Shows (znetwork.org)
New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics documents a significant jump in on the job deaths in the US....
Costco Says It’s Not Anti-Union. Unionized Workers Are Putting That to the Test. (truthout.org)
Costco bosses basked in praise for making union-friendly statements but have yet to commit to bargain in good faith....
Strikes and a Boycott Win a Better Deal from Macy’s (znetwork.org)
Fans of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade may have noticed one glaring omission in its cast of charismatic balloons and floats: Scabby the Rat, who for some reason, has never been invited....
UFCW Local Leads Campaign to Win Strongest Tenant Protections in Washington (truthout.org)
Grocery and retail workers helped win critical tenant protections for the 100,000 renters in the city of Tacoma....
UAW Arab Caucus: UAW must move from ceasefire declaration to stopping weapons for Israel (mondoweiss.net)
UAW Arab Caucus to union president Shawn Fain: The union must take action to translate the UAW’s ceasefire declaration to practical interruption of the weapons our UAW siblings are making, sending to Israel, and are being used to kill our families....
NLRB Rules Athletes in College Sports Can Unionize (www.laborpress.org)
A landmark ruling may change college sports forever. On Feb. 5, the NLRB ruled that basketball players at Dartmouth College are school employees. That means they can hold a union election. If that happens, it would be the first union of athletes in college sports. In September, all 15 members of the teams signed a petition to...
‘It’s impossible to breathe’: Delhi’s rubbish dumps drive sky-high methane emissions (www.theguardian.com)
They tower above Delhi like monstrous mountains, feasted upon by birds, flies, vermin and cows, and emitting an inescapable stench of rot. These “trash mountains” loom so large – several miles wide and more than 200ft (60 metres) high – that they are visible from across the city....
A Philly Sex Shop Fired Its Workers When They Started a Union (jacobin.com)
Last month, Passional Boutique and Sexploratorium, a Philadelphia sex shop with a reputation for “inclusivity,” laid off its entire staff after they asked the store to recognize their union. Jacobin spoke with one of the workers....
UN Warns Human Activity Pushes Over 1 in 5 Migratory Species Toward Extinction (truthout.org)
As world governments gathered in Uzbekistan Monday for the United Nations conference on migratory species, they centered the theme “Nature Knows No Borders” — an idea that a new landmark report said must take hold across the globe to push policymakers in all countries and regions to protect the billions of animals that...
Why is an Indian state punishing live-in relationships? (www.aljazeera.com)
Couples must register with the government, or risk going to jail. That’s in a law, which critics say is also part of the ruling BJP’s attempts to push its Hindu majoritarian agenda....
McDonald’s to open 1,000 outlets in China as appetite for fast food grows (www.semafor.com)
McDonald’s will open roughly 1,000 new outlets in China this year — part of what Bloomberg called a “breakneck expansion” in lower-tier cities in the country, where demand for Western fast food remains high....
Nationwide strikes rock Finland (www.bwint.org)
Nationwide strikes swept across Finland, which garnered support from the global labour movement, including the Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI), as thousands of Finnish workers protested on 1 February 2024 against proposed labour market reforms....
Paid $13/Hr. to Sell $10 Beers, Super Bowl Stadium Workers Launch Organizing Drive (www.work-bites.com)
Just days before the start of Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, Nevada’s Culinary Union announced a drive to organize the about 1,500 nonunion workers at Allegiant Stadium, site of this year’s gridiron showdown between the 49ers and Chiefs....
"I beg you to hear his side of the story" (lemmy.ca)
Not mine, but feel it's the proper type of thing to be shared.
‘Condé Nast Bosses Wear Prada — And the Workers Get Nada!’ — Work-Bites (www.work-bites.com)
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine [l to r] walk the picket line this week with striking News Guild CWA workers. Photo and video by Bob Hennelly...
Texas Tribune employees announce union organizing campaign (newsguild.org)
AUSTIN — Employees of the award-winning nonprofit newsroom The Texas Tribune announced their intent to unionize on Wednesday as the Texas Tribune Guild, part of the Media Guild of the West and The NewsGuild-CWA....
Workers at San Antonio Report walk off the job in protest of illegal layoff (newsguild.org)
At 11:30 a.m. Central Time Wednesday staffers at the San Antonio Report walked off the job after hearing that their colleague Sandra Santos was laid off by the nonprofit newsroom in Texas....
The Unionization Wave Is Hitting Costco (portside.org)
Costco workers in Norfolk, Virginia, recently unionized, defying the company’s reputation as one that cares about workers. In an interview, a Costco worker says he and his coworkers are tired of being treated with disrespect on the job....
13 Feet Ladder (github.com)
A site similar to 12ft.io but is self hosted and works with websites that 12ft.io doesn't work with....
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.”...
Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta (themarkup.org)
Two proposed federal class action lawsuits, filed in the wake of a Markup investigation, accuse the grocer of disclosing private data through its online store and pharmacy...
Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline (restofworld.org)
Jitu Jisan is a Pathao bike-taxi driver in Dhaka. But, he said, taking bookings through the ride-hailing app is always the last resort for him. Typically, he uses the Pathao app only to find a customer, and once he meets them, he turns off the app, strikes a direct deal, and goes khep....
Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year (www.wired.com)
Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against....