cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 20 days agoPhiladelphia strike: "We all want to be treated the same way... We shouldn't have to work two jobs." In solidarity, headliners LL Cool J and Sullivan refused to perform July 4plus-squarewww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPhiladelphia strike: "We all want to be treated the same way... We shouldn't have to work two jobs." In solidarity, headliners LL Cool J and Sullivan refused to perform July 4plus-squarewww.cbsnews.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 22 days agoAfter reforms last year allowing app drivers to unionize, Uber drivers join British Columbia's largest private sector unionplus-squarewww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAfter reforms last year allowing app drivers to unionize, Uber drivers join British Columbia's largest private sector unionplus-squarewww.engadget.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 22 days agoIndia: general strike against government attempts to destroy trade unions, deny minimum wages, remove social security, and divide the working classplus-squarewww.thehansindia.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkIndia: general strike against government attempts to destroy trade unions, deny minimum wages, remove social security, and divide the working classplus-squarewww.thehansindia.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 22 days agoGreece: government aims for 13 hours a day. "The countries that have the highest productivity, such as Denmark, Finland, and Germany, are the countries that have the shortest working hours"www.msn.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGreece: government aims for 13 hours a day. "The countries that have the highest productivity, such as Denmark, Finland, and Germany, are the countries that have the shortest working hours"www.msn.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 24 days agoPanama, among most unequal in Latin America, strikes against foreign and corporate encroachment. "Six weeks ago, people felt hopeful. Now we’re seeing arrests, police violence, and military pressure."plus-squarewww.codepink.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPanama, among most unequal in Latin America, strikes against foreign and corporate encroachment. "Six weeks ago, people felt hopeful. Now we’re seeing arrests, police violence, and military pressure."plus-squarewww.codepink.orgcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 26 days agoNeoliberals aimed to “make Chile a country of owners and not of proletarians,” in the words of dictator Augusto Pinochet. Rates of unionization among Chilean women surpassed those among men.plus-squarelabourreview.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNeoliberals aimed to “make Chile a country of owners and not of proletarians,” in the words of dictator Augusto Pinochet. Rates of unionization among Chilean women surpassed those among men.plus-squarelabourreview.orgcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 28 days agoTyson management allegedly forcing injured employees to drop claims, threatening to terminate strikers - We’re tired of seeing the elites have no compassion for the workers who make them richplus-squarewww.amarillo.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-linkTyson management allegedly forcing injured employees to drop claims, threatening to terminate strikers - We’re tired of seeing the elites have no compassion for the workers who make them richplus-squarewww.amarillo.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 28 days agoPhiladelphia's largest blue collar union, representing 9000 city employees, to strike. "We make poverty level wages. We need. Need. We don't want. We need more money"plus-squarewww.nbcphiladelphia.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
arrow-up116arrow-down1external-linkPhiladelphia's largest blue collar union, representing 9000 city employees, to strike. "We make poverty level wages. We need. Need. We don't want. We need more money"plus-squarewww.nbcphiladelphia.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agoUnrepresentative polls, restricted participation, limited speaking time ignore poverty among elderly - "giving in to pressure from employers is jeopardising the balance of Luxembourg’s social model"plus-squaredelano.luexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkUnrepresentative polls, restricted participation, limited speaking time ignore poverty among elderly - "giving in to pressure from employers is jeopardising the balance of Luxembourg’s social model"plus-squaredelano.lucyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agoUnion finally making inroads into Italian sweatshops, where management with links to organized crime exploits employees with precarious immigration statusplus-squarewww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkUnion finally making inroads into Italian sweatshops, where management with links to organized crime exploits employees with precarious immigration statusplus-squarewww.politico.eucyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agoAmazon management ignores summons to European Parliament. “If an Amazon worker would have behaved this way towards Amazon management, they would have already been fired three times over.”plus-squareuniglobalunion.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkAmazon management ignores summons to European Parliament. “If an Amazon worker would have behaved this way towards Amazon management, they would have already been fired three times over.”plus-squareuniglobalunion.orgcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agoColombian legislature's blocking of pro-labor law ends after president moves towards submitting it to referendum. Law passesplus-squarecolombiareports.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkColombian legislature's blocking of pro-labor law ends after president moves towards submitting it to referendum. Law passesplus-squarecolombiareports.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agoColorado Safeway votes 100% to strike. Safeway management accused of collusion with competition to not hire each other's striking employeesplus-squarewww.fortmorgantimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkColorado Safeway votes 100% to strike. Safeway management accused of collusion with competition to not hire each other's striking employeesplus-squarewww.fortmorgantimes.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month ago"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.plus-squareuniglobalunion.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"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.plus-squareuniglobalunion.orgcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agoCourt 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 isplus-squarewww.kob.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCourt 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 isplus-squarewww.kob.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agoPanama: teachers strike for pension, supported by banana workers and indigenous communities. Government responds with tear gas, beatings, arbitrary arrestsplus-squarewww.ei-ie.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPanama: teachers strike for pension, supported by banana workers and indigenous communities. Government responds with tear gas, beatings, arbitrary arrestsplus-squarewww.ei-ie.orgcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-21 month agoUbisoft Halifax: majority of 60-person team signs union cards, files to unionize producers, programmers, designers, artists, researchers, and testersplus-squareuniglobalunion.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkUbisoft Halifax: majority of 60-person team signs union cards, files to unionize producers, programmers, designers, artists, researchers, and testersplus-squareuniglobalunion.orgcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agoAustralia: 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 unlawfulwww.msn.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAustralia: 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 unlawfulwww.msn.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agoNew 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 rightsplus-squareetu.nzexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNew 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 rightsplus-squareetu.nzcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
cyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agoVeteran 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 organizationplus-squarewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkVeteran 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 organizationplus-squarewww.theguardian.comcyu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
