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When nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents (sh.itjust.works)
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https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/113321774350369519

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Ubisoft strike: Until proven otherwise, games only exist thanks to the workers’ labour, and good games thanks to good working conditions (www.stjv.fr)
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The Long Road to Union Recognition: Trader Joe’s Workers Press On (inthesetimes.com)
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Union calls for reform: IMF and World Bank continue to promote austerity and deregulation that undermine workers’ rights and democracy, exacerbate inequality (punchng.com)
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Trump Insults Auto Plant Workers: ‘We Could Have Our Child Do it’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
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Sounds like he wants more child labor and thinks little of workers in general

“When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a press release. “When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean.”

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Why You Might Soon Be Paid Like an Uber Driver—Even If You’re Not One (slate.com)
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Philippines: commission rules that riders for food delivery company are employees rather than contractors (www.sunstar.com.ph)
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Indonesia: Health workers to strike if minimum wage not enforced and increased after real wage decline of 30% over 10 years (en.tempo.co)
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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)
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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)
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Italy: hooded attackers target leatherworkers on picket line, employees from other firms strike in solidarity (au.fashionnetwork.com)
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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)
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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 1 month ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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McGill drops legal attempt to deny law professors right to union (www.cbc.ca)
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US Dockworker Strike Wins 62% Raises (internationalsocialist.net)
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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)
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Your Money Is On the Table (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
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Howard Schultz violated labor law by telling employee ‘if you’re not happy at Starbucks, you can go work for another company’ (www.cnn.com)
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The Campaign to Unionize Amazon Gains Momentum (znetwork.org)
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Ports Shut Down from Maine to Texas as 45,000 Dockworkers Launch Strike over Pay & Automation (www.democracynow.org)
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October 01, 2024

Guest - Peter Goodman
NewYorkTimes global economics correspondent

[a surprisingly pro-worker viewpoint from a writer from the NYT -PL]

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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)
submitted 1 month ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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