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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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UC presidents given additional two hundred thousand a year, on top of seven hundred to eight hundred thousand, while some employees sleep in cars (www.uscannenbergmedia.com)
submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Italy: hooded attackers target leatherworkers on picket line, employees from other firms strike in solidarity (au.fashionnetwork.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Caterpillar Mexico: management continues to intimidate, retaliate, and exclude union members; public pressure forced reinstatement of union leader (www.industriall-union.org)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Samsung India: government files cases against 625 employees and union activists during strike for union recognition, higher wages, and 8-hour workday (www.news9live.com)
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The Chippendales Dancers Are Seeking to Unionize (www.them.us)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Boeing withdraws 30% pay rise offer to striking workers (www.bbc.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break" (www.ragtrader.com.au)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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McGill drops legal attempt to deny law professors right to union (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Egypt: Union activist blindfolded and arrested for encouraging strike and causing financial losses, threatened with imprisonment if strike didn't end (menasolidaritynetwork.com)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The National Council of Australia's National Tertiary Education Union has overwhelmingly endorsed the institutional academic boycott of Israel - BDS is now union policy (aussie.zone)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/14251472

https://x.com/nickriemer1/status/1842367573654192131?t=ehgCvVt3KMTzzr-HF8V2-w

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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)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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South African unions denounce government's bow to the IMF, neoliberal policies, privatisation, and austerity (saftu.org.za)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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"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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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)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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