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We now have a general Labor focused community. Please feel free to contribute. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by jackalope@lemmy.ml to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14381867

The /c/unions community kept getting non union general labor interest posts and shockingly there are not really many general labor focused communities on Lemmy. So I've made one here.

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On the NLRB: Why go into enemy territory? It’s important to recognize that direct action is the only way to receive the benefits you’re looking for. You can’t depend on a government agency. (capitalandmain.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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Ghana: privatization supporters continue push despite failures to lower prices and improve services. A study led by OECD found that privatized electricity had 23% higher costs. (publicservices.international)
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Cyprus: "An Injury to One is an Injury to All!" Entire staff strikes after management terminates employee after forming union and asking for a raise. (www.iww.cy)
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Canada: custodial and maintenance staff approves strike, many without wage increase after a decade seeing 30% inflation. “Many of our members work two or three jobs. Many live on the edge of poverty.” (cupe.ca)
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Toronto: union of nearly 30,000 municipal employees approves strike due to “years of stagnating wages amid rising inflation.” (globalnews.ca)
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US: Unions say privatizing postal services in Europe have led to reduced services, increased prices, job losses, and cut off rural communities (uniglobalunion.org)
submitted 3 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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South Korea: government sentences union activists to prison after threatening to break strike with commandos and special forces (www.industriall-union.org)
submitted 3 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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"What Can I Do to Help the Labor Movement?" (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
submitted 3 days ago by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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popular resistance will only come from concerted collective action, which is something few people in the U.S. have any experience with. The big exception are union members. (social.sanfranciscan.org)
submitted 4 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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The Business Lobby Wants To Take Paid Holidays From Toronto Workers (www.readthemaple.com)
submitted 4 days ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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France: unions rally against far-right attack at film screening, beating audience members, stabbing one (peoplesdispatch.org)
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Canada: LifeLabs employees strike - "we are not going to allow their profit margins to increase on the backs of the patients and our members who work at LifeLabs" (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 5 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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UK: bus drivers approve strike after management intimidates employees into driving despite safety concerns, suspend those who refuse (www.bbc.com)
submitted 6 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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India: Samsung management plans on locking factory gates to prevent strikers from taking over factory (www.outlookbusiness.com)
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Greece: nationwide strikes against outsourcing and use of contracts rather than making employees permanent (www.tovima.com)
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New Zealand: Minister won't meet with Council of Trade Unions, country’s largest democratic organisation. "she doesn’t want to hear our view, she has a different view – pro-employer and anti-worker" (newsroom.co.nz)
submitted 6 days ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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Pan-African Worker’s Association (PAWA) Affiliates to the IWW – 🏴 Anarchist Federation (www.anarchistfederation.net)
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Want to defeat Trump? Support unions | Eric Blanc (www.theguardian.com)
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Peet’s Coffee Enacts Sweeping Heavy-Handed Discipline on Union Members (www.anarchistfederation.net)
submitted 1 week ago by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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"All of us expected Peet’s to promptly bargain a contract with us."

Well that was an incredibly dumb thing to expect.

Peet’s Coffee Enacts Sweeping Heavy-Handed Discipline on Union Members – 🏴 Anarchist Federation -

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“But the police, who in the small town of Garner where Amazon is the biggest employer act as a kind of private security force, didn’t care and just took us off to jail.” (jacobin.com)
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Federal workers vs Elon Musk: I’ve never seen a billionaire carry the mail, put out a forest fire, make sure people get their Social Security checks, answer a phone call from a suicidal veteran (www.labornotes.org)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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South Africa: half of strikes in 2024 were wildcat strikes (groundup.org.za)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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Solidarity with Belgian unions: The hard-right scapegoats women, minorities, and the most vulnerable. They use anger against elites as a tool to divide, yet when in power, they serve those same elites (www.bwint.org)
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Oregon: hospitals threaten health care for nurses who do not agree to their conditions. "Providence executives - who earn millions in salaries - should focus on settling a fair contract." (archive.ph)
submitted 1 week ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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