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We now have a general Labor focused community. Please feel free to contribute. (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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Colorado Safeway votes 100% to strike. Safeway management accused of collusion with competition to not hire each other's striking employees (www.fortmorgantimes.com)
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"four hours of real rest—if we’re lucky. Two hours to get home, two hours to return—what’s left for sleep, recovery, or time with our families?" Casino management fails to break union election. (uniglobalunion.org)
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Court blocked Alberton's and Kroger merger, but they are allegedly colluding as far as where each other is with bargaining and where the floor and the ceiling is (www.kob.com)
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Teamsters at Airgas Prepare to Strike (teamster.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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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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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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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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Union leaders quit DNC (breaddaily.substack.com)
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European Dockworkers Refuse to Load Weapons Aimed at Palestine (www.labornotes.org)
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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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To Unionize Amazon, Disrupt the Flow (jacobin.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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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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SMART y otros sindicatos defienden a los trabajadores inmigrantes y se enfrentan a la cruzada xenófoba de Trump (world-outlook.com)
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