IWW and syndicalism

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

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Panama: teachers strike for pension, supported by banana workers and indigenous communities. Government responds with tear gas, beatings, arbitrary arrests (www.ei-ie.org)
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Ubisoft Halifax: majority of 60-person team signs union cards, files to unionize producers, programmers, designers, artists, researchers, and testers (uniglobalunion.org)
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Australia: hundreds take to streets after High Court allows government takeover of union - The decision is final. I have advised members that any action is likely to be unlawful (www.msn.com)
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New Zealand: new law "could have been written by Uber’s lawyers" - We have members who wear a company uniform, drive a branded van, and answer to a manager – but miss out on basic rights (etu.nz)
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Veteran Affairs: medical staff can be barred based on political party or union activity, staff may now discriminate against patients based on party affiliation and membership in labor organization (www.theguardian.com)
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Safeway strike after 99% authorization: I wish that Safeway/Albertsons had taken negotiations more seriously, obeyed the law, and respected the workers, but wishing doesn’t make it so (www.9news.com)
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Entering the workplace typically means leaving the freedoms of democratic society behind. For most, every job is to follow orders. Functionally speaking, workers are servants. (theconversation.com)
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Starbucks union wins 600th vote, only one "no" vote in Albuquerque, Richmond, and Moon Township (www.facebook.com)
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Washington DC: Unions march against attack on SEIU and SEIU California president (xcancel.com)
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...but ten 1000 person marches across the city would cripple us (lemmy.ml)
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SEIU California president thrown to ground at protest by ICE agents, taken to hospital then detention center (archive.ph)
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Colombia’s labor unions participate in 48-hour strike in support of president’s labor referendum (apnews.com)
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Spain: first strike in over 100 years at utility - wages increased 2.8% from 2021 to 2024 while inflation at 19%. "The cost is minimal in relation to the profits the company makes every year." (archive.ph)
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South Africa: government refuses to recognize union because it is non-hierarchical and has no permanent office bearers (www.news24.com)
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Nation's largest private-sector doctors union picket with SEIU, joined by president of the Minnesota Nurses Association (minnesotareformer.com)
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Microsoft: tentative deal to raise ZeniMax's minimum pay from $20.75 an hour to $28.38 in July (archive.ph)
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Spanish tourism: there is an internal face where the truth is told... a housekeeper who has to take medication every day and who is forced to clean private homes on days off in order to make ends meet (www.mirror.co.uk)
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Argentina: government establishes "commission of guarantees" to limit strikes that could jeopardize any "revenue objectives associated with budget balance policies." (archive.ph)
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School job cuts ‘shouldn’t be a shock’, says Harris chief (www.tes.com)
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Americans more likely to side with labor than at any time in the past 60 years (www.epi.org)
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Ebay to shut down authentication center where employees formed eBay's first union (cwa-union.org)
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Canada Post management gives employees 24 hours to accept an offer hundreds of pages long: By refusing offer of two-week truce, they're forcing strike to further make the public blame us (www.castanet.net)
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In past 12 months, half of trade unionists murdered around the world were in Colombia. Attacks spike during union negotiations. (ca.news.yahoo.com)
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Labour Rights Index: Europe leads world in decent work, US rated 20/100 for employment security (limited decent work) (labourrightsindex.org)
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Despite management attempts at union busting, Sesame Street votes union, including childhood education experts, fundraisers, facilities staff, producers and paralegals (current.org)
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