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The president could invoke a 1947 law to try to suspend the dockworkers' strike. Here's how (apnews.com)
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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)
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500 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize as labor talks continue (www.cnbc.com)
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Maui: 98% of nurses union voters approve strike over workload, burn out, nurse-to-patient ratio (www.hawaiinewsnow.com)
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South African unions denounce government's bow to the IMF, neoliberal policies, privatisation, and austerity (saftu.org.za)
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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)
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Guatemala: health workers union activist murdered (publicservices.international)
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Samsung India strike: management refuses to recognize union, government arrests 900 (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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The massive U.S. port strike has begun (qz.com)
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"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely (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)
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Australia: solidarity march against government takeover of union (sh.itjust.works)
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https://defendtheunions.cargo.site/

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Southern California News Group journalists vote to authorize strike (www.latimes.com)
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American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay (jacobin.com)
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Israel accused of breaking global labor law by withholding Palestinian worker pay (www.theguardian.com)
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Philippines: government red-tags youth activists, women’s groups, environmentalists, Indigenous peoples, journalists, and teachers. Union leader goes into hiding after layoff (www.hrw.org)
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Engineering specialists at Seagate hard-drives vote overwhelmingly for union after manufacturing specialists unionized last year (www.unitetheunion.org)
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Samsung India: management threatens striking employees with termination if they continued with protest (apnews.com)
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University of Illinois dining and custodial workers go on strike (ipmnewsroom.org)
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UAW 2300 Workers Secure Landmark Contract After Successful Strike Against Cornell University (higheredlaborunited.org)
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Strike looms at busiest US ports as 45,000 workers prepare to walk off job (www.theguardian.com)
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"My God, Roger! Only yesterday I told them we were one big, happy family!" (sh.itjust.works)
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https://mastodon.social/@Radical_EgoCom/113199263667805102

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UK: Labour Party cracks down on dissenters who voted to reduce child poverty; "trade unions must become the most effective opposition if Labour keeps attacking the poorest" (www.morningstaronline.co.uk)
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Nepal unions: "It’s not fair that billionaires can hide their wealth offshore while we are denied simple wages and security" (publicservices.international)
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Martinique: union blocks roads with tractor-trailers, suspends bus service; another to strike over cost of living and low minimum wage. France sends anti-riot police, imposes curfew, bans protests (www.mymotherlode.com)
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