IWW and syndicalism

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

A good telegram group to join (I do not own it, I don't take responsibility for what you'll find there): https://t.me/AnarchoSyndicat

And int he spirit of open source:

https://matrix.to/#/%23anarchycommunism:matrix.org

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Canadian rail strike: CN and CPKC compromise rail safety, don’t care about farmers, small businesses, supply chains, or their own employees. Their sole focus is boosting their bottom line (www.teamstersrail.ca)
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Canada sends rail workers to binding arbitration - "Justin Trudeau's actions are cowardly, anti-worker, & proof that he will always cave to corporate greed." (sh.itjust.works)
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https://newsie.social/@LALegault/113008779212164048

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California: Amazon ruled joint employer of drivers, threatened employees, engaged in intimidation and other retaliation (finance.yahoo.com)
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https://x.com/amazonteamsters/status/1826653831645515787

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Boeing: “The best in the industry used to crawl over shattered glass just to get an interview to work here. And now the company is begging high school students to apply.” (labornotes.org)
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Air Canada pilots vote 98% to strike after a year of negotiations without agreement (www.alpa.org)
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Employees on strike at Swedish-owned gambling company. Management threatens to suspend health insurance, fire a thousand employees. (uniglobalunion.org)
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Australia: Labor government attempting to drive out militants and kill union, amounts to saying “the law does not apply, we can do whatever we want” (www.redblacknotes.com)
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Cornell employees on strike: We have members who are on Section 8. The majority of our members can’t afford to live here in Ithaca, close to their job. (www.thenation.com)
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17,000 AT&T employees on strike, say management sending representatives who do not have authority to make decisions and management reneging on agreements (apnews.com)
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Germany: union representing video game employees pushes to build worker power on the job. "Organizing for justice is not a sidequest here, it is the main story line." (uniglobalunion.org)
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Laws on union strike threshold set to be scrapped (www.bbc.com)
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Obviously this is a Labour government so they are not to be trusted to actually carry it out until it's actually carried out and then check what the caveats are.

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Government invades offices of Nigeria Labour Congress, accusing it of sedition, seizes hundreds of books and other publications (publicservices.international)
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UK: Ambulances called to Amazon warehouses more than 10 times as often as those called to Tesco warehouse (www.theguardian.com)
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New Zealand: MRI and nuclear medicine techs strike against outsourcing (www.rnz.co.nz)
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Argentina: unions fight IMF and Basic Law that favors management and limits union action (www.plenglish.com)
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Wisconsin: Amazon management fails to classify employees as contractors, deny rights like overtime pay and unemployment insurance (www.milwaukeeindependent.com)
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Trump congratulates Musk for firing striking workers (x.com)
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Apologies for the KamalaHQ link or the twitter link for that matter. But I didn't bother looking up if anyone else discussed it.

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[Propaganda] 59% of Americans wrongly think the U.S. is in a recession, report finds (www.cnbc.com)
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"No you see, idiot, uneducated worker, the economy is doing great actually. Now go back to the your 3rd job's shift to barely make ends meet."

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Boston hotel workers authorize strike, total compensation for 15 Executive Officers enough to pay every union hotel worker $40 an hour (www.universalhub.com)
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UNITE HERE hotel workers march (sh.itjust.works)
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https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112919894999366870

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India: preparations to escalate protest if central government insists on privatization or refuses to recognize Anganwadi workers as regular employees (www.himachalheadlines.com)
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Bangladesh: police go on strike, apologize for being "forced to open fire" (tribune.com.pk)
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This Strike Could Determine the Future of Video Games (www.youtube.com)
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Community United Against Hate - IWW Ireland (www.onebigunion.ie)
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Amazon Quebec ordered to pay $30,000 for anti-union publications. Management intimidated employees who talked to union organizers by forcing them into "employee relations" interrogations (thenorthstar.media)
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