IWW and syndicalism

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

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UK: private schools plan to fire and rehire teachers into plans with worse pensions, teachers go on strike (www.morningstaronline.co.uk)
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South Africa: workers send rubbish to City Hall, “We don’t even have rats and ants, not even cockroaches in our homes, because there is no food.” (groundup.org.za)
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First-year wage increases in union contracts, since 2008 (sh.itjust.works)
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/wages-union-workers

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REI switched to Morgan Lewis, same firm whose attorneys have argued on behalf of Trader Joe’s and SpaceX that National Labor Relations Board itself is unconstitutional (www.huffpost.com)
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Colorado: union pushes for bill to protect employees who refuse to attend religious, political, and anti-union company meetings (www.cbsnews.com)
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Philippines one of 10 worst countries for working people because of violence and arrest of trade unionists, and union busting - bag maker for Coach and Michael Kors using same playbook (www.solidaritycenter.org)
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Finland: "three hundred thousand workers, from lorry drivers and electricians to kindergarten teachers and white-collar office workers, across the country were on strike" (jacobin.com)
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Tesla: Sweden probably never saw this many sympathy measures in same conflict - neoliberal think-tank calls for end to right to strike (xekinima.org)
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Sri Lanka: IMF continues to endorse and even encourage a President who is suppressing public dissent, using brute police and military force, trade union busting and other means to push IMF reforms. (slguardian.org)
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Lucy Parsons on government, centralization, corruption, and the American republic (sh.itjust.works)
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All political government must necessarily become despotic, because all government tends to become centralized in the hands of the few, who breed corruption among themselves and in a very short time disconnect themselves from the body of the people. The American republic is a good illustration.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-an-interview-with-lucy-parsons-on-the-prospects-for-anarchism-in-america

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Spain: Zara reported record profits and raised shareholder payouts, "they can't make excuses to the workers and need to discuss more benefits" (www.reuters.com)
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Japan: Google to cut 6% of workforce, first union at Google Japan formed to protect against arbitrary termination (ca.movies.yahoo.com)
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Tunisia: thousands of union members demonstrate in 8 cities against government attacks on union and other freedoms, million members have previously shut down country (ca.style.yahoo.com)
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Volkswagen Tennessee: 70% of 4,000 employees sign union cards at world's only non-union VW plant (archive.ph)
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UK: "Magnox seems to have money to burn for directors and shareholders but thinks it is acceptable to deny its workers a decent pay increase," 95% reject offer below inflation in consultative ballot (www.unitetheunion.org)
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Egypt: thousands of textile employees strike, thirteen arrested by National Security, two still detained (www.labourstartcampaigns.net)
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Quebec: Airbus employees vote 99.6% against offer below inflation, 98.9% vote for strike (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
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UK: debt advice charity fires two thirds of staff after they announce strike, “I am shocked that the charity I joined with such hope had been contorted by management into something so despicable” (www.morningstaronline.co.uk)
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Finland: There is a worrying trend among some governments to try to silence the rights of working people. The right to strike is the last resort of workers to exercise their democratic rights. (www.itfglobal.org)
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Uber and Lyft, Minneapolis' only licensed rideshare companies, to pull out as new minimum pay comes into effect. Local startups, existing companies set to fill void. (m.startribune.com)
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Coles employees offered gift cards while they can't afford to shop at own workplace, skip meals, rely on food assistance (www.pedestrian.tv)
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Nova Scotia faculty and staff pay 14% behind inflation, while college hands out large increases to managers, positions given to friends of managers (globalnews.ca)
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Amazon Kentucky: management interrogates union activists, demotes them, threatens to call police and terminate them (archive.ph)
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University of the South Pacific: staff votes 96% to strike after raise "way below" rise in cost of living (www.rnz.co.nz)
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Trader Joe's union-busting: threaten to take away raise for forming union. First store unionized in 2022. (www.huffpost.com)
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