IWW and syndicalism

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

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Costco Korea strike: management consistently refuses contract negotiations despite control of one of the most profitable Costco stores in the world (uniglobalunion.org)
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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)
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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)
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Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
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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)
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Korea: Samsung barricades office after union planned to demonstrate in building’s lobby (sh.itjust.works)
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https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1137217

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Management threatens to replace Canadian Air Navigation Specialists Association members with scabs after they vote 95% to strike (www.unifor.org)
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Greeks strike to win back labor rights removed as temporary measure during bailout-era, “our rights are not utopia” (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
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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)
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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)
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Writers have unanimously authorized strike

https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/112289339639728600

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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)
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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)
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"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)
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Unionizing archaeologists fight blacklisting, union-busting law firms, firing of organizers, and reclassification of employees as ineligible (jacobin.com)
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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)
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Ford employees get $10,400 profit sharing because of union, remember this next time boss says unions don't work (mstdn.ca)
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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)
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Chileans strike against right wing that obstructs change and government that gives in, want it to return to original content its reforms (portside.org)
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Amazon Canada: we are seeing Amazon roll out its despicable union busting tactics just like it has around the world. But we know the solution is global worker solidarity (uniglobalunion.org)
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2020 study: If distribution of income of three decades after World War II continued through 2018, median yearly income of bottom 90 percent of Americans would have doubled from $50,000 to $100,000 (prospect.org)
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Tesla Sweden: plans to build and open Supercharger stations on hold after unions refuse to connect them to power grid (www.teslarati.com)
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Punjab: first Home-Based Workers (HBW) Union registered, significant moment towards gender equality in Pakistan (www.thenews.com.pk)
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India: unions campaign against anti-worker policies, industrial safety in shambles. Since 2021, every year, there have been at least 1,029 accidents, resulting in the death of over 1,000 (www.industriall-union.org)
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Airbus Canada union votes 99.9% to reject latest offer, 99.6% voters rejected first offer (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
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Argyle Airport workers will no longer take the word of board chairman, "We were given word that ‘we would find a solution’. There was none. So, we called off the action and got nothing in return" (caribbean.loopnews.com)
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