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Philippines: commission rules that riders for food delivery company are employees rather than contractors (www.sunstar.com.ph)
submitted 21 hours ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Why You Might Soon Be Paid Like an Uber Driver—Even If You’re Not One (slate.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by Intrepidtron@lemm.ee to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Indonesia: Health workers to strike if minimum wage not enforced and increased after real wage decline of 30% over 10 years (en.tempo.co)
submitted 22 hours ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Rwanda: union grows from 200 in 2008, to 78k this year (www.bwint.org)
submitted 2 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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UC presidents given additional two hundred thousand a year, on top of seven hundred to eight hundred thousand, while some employees sleep in cars (www.uscannenbergmedia.com)
submitted 3 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Italy: hooded attackers target leatherworkers on picket line, employees from other firms strike in solidarity (au.fashionnetwork.com)
submitted 3 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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India: strike leads to political crisis over Tamil Nadu's image as "investor-friendly" state (indianexpress.com)
submitted 2 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Caterpillar Mexico: management continues to intimidate, retaliate, and exclude union members; public pressure forced reinstatement of union leader (www.industriall-union.org)
submitted 3 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Samsung India: government files cases against 625 employees and union activists during strike for union recognition, higher wages, and 8-hour workday (www.news9live.com)
submitted 3 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break" (www.ragtrader.com.au)
submitted 5 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Boeing withdraws 30% pay rise offer to striking workers (www.bbc.com)
submitted 5 days ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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The Chippendales Dancers Are Seeking to Unionize (www.them.us)
submitted 4 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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McGill drops legal attempt to deny law professors right to union (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 6 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Egypt: Union activist blindfolded and arrested for encouraging strike and causing financial losses, threatened with imprisonment if strike didn't end (menasolidaritynetwork.com)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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The National Council of Australia's National Tertiary Education Union has overwhelmingly endorsed the institutional academic boycott of Israel - BDS is now union policy (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 week ago by maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/14251472

https://x.com/nickriemer1/status/1842367573654192131?t=ehgCvVt3KMTzzr-HF8V2-w

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GE Appliance plant, 90% union in "right-to-work" state, approve strike by 98%. 60% have to work second job, health care plan too expensive for 30%, most don't make enough for one-bedroom in city (labornotes.org)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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500 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize as labor talks continue (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 1 week ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Maui: 98% of nurses union voters approve strike over workload, burn out, nurse-to-patient ratio (www.hawaiinewsnow.com)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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South African unions denounce government's bow to the IMF, neoliberal policies, privatisation, and austerity (saftu.org.za)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Serbia: manager attacks three women with previous work-related injuries, throwing chair, one woman loses consciousness. Management claims surveillance cameras not operational. (www.industriall-union.org)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Guatemala: health workers union activist murdered (publicservices.international)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Samsung India strike: management refuses to recognize union, government arrests 900 (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-american-tech-workers-feel-about-joining-a-union/

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Longshoremen: It’s disgraceful foreign-owned companies make their billion-dollar profits off backs of workers, and take those earnings out of this country into pockets of foreign conglomerates (ilaunion.org)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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Australia: solidarity march against government takeover of union (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works
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