IWW and syndicalism

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Community for union related stuff, with focus on the IWW.

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Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 (www.eurogamer.net)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21259576

2024 has seen two mass layoffs at Microsoft, with 1900 staff laid off in January, before a further 650 Xbox employees were shown the door in September.

Regardless, Microsoft's shares are up and the company's market value is now higher than $3tn, as it works to capitalise on the rise of AI.

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Greece: unions go on strike calling for rollback of austerity measures (sh.itjust.works)
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https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/strikes-greek-teachers-island-ferry-155529927.html

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Highland farms: Largest group of farmworkers to unionize in Canadian history (ufcw1518.com)
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Alberta: thousands of health care workers, school staff, and public employees rally outside legislature (sh.itjust.works)
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/angry-public-sector-unions-rally-at-alberta-legislature-for-more-pay-better-conditions/ar-AA1sS1ZU

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Consumer-owned co-op unionizes; new general manager describes previous conflict between management and employees as a terrible episode in co-op history (ithacavoice.org)
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New York Times: CEO gets 36% raise, employees get 3% (union.place)
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Australia: Qantas employees prepare to gatecrash annual shareholders meeting (www.aap.com.au)
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Amazon claims First Amendment rights when threatening to terminate employees involved in union activity (www.404media.co)
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South Africa: 61% wish they could afford to quit jobs, 52% diagnosed with mental illness; "You’re lucky to be employed and, if you don’t like the conditions, there’s the door" (mg.co.za)
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New Zealand: 10,000 attend gathering against government; "this coalition government is in the pockets of the rich and corporate interests and doesn’t care about working people" (union.org.nz)
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Tbilisi, Georgia: Swedish-owned company forcibly deletes journalist's photos after he attempted to photograph guards; strikers describe filthy, vermin-infested work environment (www.ericlee.info)
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Tesla employees without benefits and protection of collective agreement; strikes continue as other unions blockade Teslas at ports in Denmark, Norway, and Finland (www.etuc.org)
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South Korea: government cracks down on undocumented immigrants, woman falls off cliff evading immigration officials, major union calls for end to crackdown amid efforts to broaden its coalition (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
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Edmonton Public Schools to strike: members haven’t seen meaningful wage increase in 12 years. Twelve years ago, you could live off this income as a single person, but you can’t now. (edmontonjournal.com)
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Canada: Amazon attempts to rewrite labor law to decertify union (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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CVS strike: management accused of surveillance of workers, retaliation for union activities and prohibiting workers from engaging in union activities (www.yahoo.com)
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UK: HelloFresh warehouse employees raise concerns about working conditions, management fires 79 (www.bbc.com)
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Employees form first Walmart warehouse union in Canada (labornotes.org)
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When nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents (sh.itjust.works)
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https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/113321774350369519

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Ubisoft strike: Until proven otherwise, games only exist thanks to the workers’ labour, and good games thanks to good working conditions (www.stjv.fr)
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Union calls for reform: IMF and World Bank continue to promote austerity and deregulation that undermine workers’ rights and democracy, exacerbate inequality (punchng.com)
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Philippines: commission rules that riders for food delivery company are employees rather than contractors (www.sunstar.com.ph)
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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)
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Rwanda: union grows from 200 in 2008, to 78k this year (www.bwint.org)
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India: strike leads to political crisis over Tamil Nadu's image as "investor-friendly" state (indianexpress.com)
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