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We now have a general Labor focused community. Please feel free to contribute.

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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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REI board blocks pro-union candidates from board election, pushes corporate candidates. Union and REI members successfully reject corporate candidates

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Blizzard's Overwatch 2: 200 artists, testers, writers, and engineers form wall-to-wall union

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Overwatch Game Developers Secure Union Recognition with Communications Workers of America

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UK: union members from around the country join megapicket with Birmingham refuse workers

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62n8k27e61o

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Privatization in Canada: "Albertans deserve a government that cares about quality public health care, not gifting hospitals to their greedy friends or selling them to the highest bidder"

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India: millions of workers ready for general strike on May 20, for higher minimum wages, fixed working hours, and a rollback of the government’s anti-worker policies

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Demonstrators in the streets in Philadelphia, Buenos Aires

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https://apnews.com/article/may-day-workers-labor-unions-rallies-marches-trump-46de8196d7f01d7458c3d77ccd5e0e54

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Nationwide May Day Protests Target Trump's 'Billionaire Agenda' | Common Dreams

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Brett Wilkins May 01, 2025

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Labour Day demonstrations in Manila, Athens, 2025

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/may-day-protests-trump-photos/

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Paris, Seoul march for worker rights, May 1, 2025

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https://www.france24.com/en/business/20250501-live-workers-worldwide-rally-for-rights-social-justice-at-may-day-protests

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55,000 LA County employees on strike against management’s violations of labor law

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https://www.seiu721.org/2025/04/10000-plus-seiu-721-members-march-during-county-ulp-strike.php

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Billionaires buy politicians to write rules for themselves, to dodge taxes, exploit workers, fuel division, pollute our environment and destroy public services – all while raking in obscene profits.

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Arbutus Club strike: club receives tens of thousands of dollars in initiation fees from city's wealthiest, while employee wages fall far behind inflation and cost of living in Metro Vancouver

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Quand des révolutionnaires faisaient plier l'Empire allemand à Strasbourg

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US: Find a May Day event near you

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Molson Coors strike: management brings in non-union salaried employees and temporary higher-waged employees as scabs. Picketers block company trucks, backing up traffic, but motorists support union.

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Canada: Alberta Federation of Labour holds Common Front Resistance Rally at legislature

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https://newsie.social/@apaulagetics/114412975184213014

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Unions Cheer After Judge Halts Trump Order on Federal Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights | Common Dreams

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Jessica Corbett Apr 25, 2025

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Malicious Compliance & Work to Rule: 2 easy & legal forms of sabotage to fuck with the boss

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https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/114388082077997579

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Spain: 5000 hospitality employees strike, cheered on by many customers waving union flags handed out by strikers

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Employer lobby successfully pushes Irish Cabinet to backtrack on living wage, paid sick leave, and other support for low-paid, sick, young, migrant, and retired employees

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Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.

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Over 1000 lawyers, in 42 states, trained to do pro bono work for federal employees being attacked by DOGE. “We are still operating as though there is a rule of law”

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"When radical things happen, only fools do not become more radical."

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Hong Kong: airline gives CEO 35% raise while lower level employees still dealing with pay cuts and other detrimental changes since pandemic

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Greek general strike: employees push for return of bargaining rights scrapped as part of international bailouts

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https://www.byteseu.com/910348/

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Cyprus: management terminates employee for asking for raise mere days after collective organizing

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Argentina general strike: government asks for new IMF loan, pushes austerity, reduces purchasing power despite positive macroeconomic figures

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https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250409-argentina-braces-for-24-hour-strike-as-it-awaits-news-on-imf-loan

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Cyprus: union says 74% of workers unable to save money due to IMF neoliberalism

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Philippines: Labor rights group calls for abolition of National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, said to label labor groups as insurrectionists and subjecting them to violence

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University of Oregon: 94.5% students authorize a strike for raise and two paychecks per month. University violated state law issuing paychecks more than 35 days apart.

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SEIU Launches $100,000 Ad Campaign & Holds 18 Rallies to Release Immigrant Activist

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cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/114279540131463386

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UK sanitation worker strike: union pickets block scab pickups. National government ready to step in against union.

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New Zealand: government aims to cut jobs helping tenants and public housing while cutting taxes for landlords

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Belgian general strike against austerity: "working people refuse to be scapegoated for a budget crisis created by political choices that prioritise profit over people"

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India: Samsung management retaliates after hundreds of union members allegedly try to force entry into management offices from lobby

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Breaking Out The Master’s Tools with Michael McCarthy [Macro N Cheese podcast 58mins]

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They get into the perverse ways that our pensions & 401(k)s work against our working class interests.

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Senegal: management fires over 100 truck drivers after they asked for protective equipment

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Just got word that the factory my father worked at for over 35 years is going union

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Wish they had done it when he was still there, but better late than never.

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Trump ending collective bargaining for federal workers: Canadian remembers their own wildcat strike of 1965, which ultimately secured collective bargaining rights for public sector employees

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Postal employees rally against DOGE: "It’s about rich versus poor. Who built this country? It wasn’t people in suits. It was people in coveralls."

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They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them [Hamilton Nolan]

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South Korea: union members strike for impeachment of president. Government declares political strike illegal.

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https://www.mk.co.kr/en/society/11275392

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Canada: DHL seeks to decrease work-from-home and force logging of bathroom use

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Microsoft Romania: first CBA signed in leading multinational tech company

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UK: three strikebreakers dismissed by management after talking to picketers. They join strike

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CWA starts new direct-join union for all video game workers, including unemployed ones. "We can no longer expect to rely on traditional legal frameworks..."

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Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27419929

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Trump's Hollow Working Class Aesthetics and How Unions Can Lead a Real Resistance [Citations Needed 🔈 33m]

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In this Citations Needed News Brief interview, we're joined by Rutgers professor Eric Blanc to discuss his new book "We Are The Union," and lay out how any meaningful resistance to Trump and Trumpism has to be grounded in a growing, strong, confrontational labor movement.

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Denmark: government plans to hand postal service to private monopoly that uses precarious employees. Union expects further price increases and service deterioration.

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Chile: Metro work week decreased from 45 to 40 hours - "we are supporting the principle that we work to live, not the other way around."

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Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant Workers

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March 12, 2025

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North Carolina Amazon Workers Lose Union Vote

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By Mark Satinoff March 6, 2025

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"Uberfication" encroaching on teaching profession, including at Oxford, leaves teachers scrambling for precarious work

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40,000 protest government takeover of CFMEU. “What have Labor and Liberal done for us in the last decade? Things should have gotten better in the last 50 years, not worse... we need a revolution.”

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Kroger admits to price gouging while employees ask for "contractual wages we can live on. Wages that prevent homelessness"

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Union Leaders Explain Why They're Demanding an End to US id to Israel

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Cornell employees remain on strike while voting on deal for cost-of-living adjustment, an end to tiers, longevity bonuses, and a wage increase of 21 to 25.4 percent over four years.

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US: 38% of graduate students unionized, up 133% since 2012. Growth of non-tenure track faculty, postdocs, academic researchers, graduate and undergraduate students

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Teamsters Canada: Without the right to strike, corporate Canada will become less inclined to negotiate in good faith, knowing the government can now bust a union on a whim

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Oregon: 45,000 Fred Meyer employees on strike. “If you see that line at one of our 28 Fred Meyers in the Portland metro area, don’t cross it, just shop somewhere else.”

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Paris: Staff at video game studio, including CEO, sends letter to studio management, say treated like galley slaves

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Australia: Electrical Trades Union accuses Labor of treachery, redirects Labor donations to fight government takeover of CFMEU

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Egypt: 10 striking employees arrested, location unknown. Government arrests relatives until employees turn themselves in

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4,500 Fred Meyer workers set to strike in Portland area

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Thousands of Fred Meyer workers in the Portland area plan to walk off the job early Wednesday, striking over alleged breaches of labor relations laws and amid contentious contract negotiations.

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Australia: instead of dealing with individual criminality, government to takeover entire union. Both major parties now rely on appeasement of corporations.

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National Day against Outsourcing, Brazil: bank orders military police attack on protestors with tasers and tear gas, injuring several union members

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Right to disconnect, Australia: employees no longer forced to respond to management after hours

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AppleJuiceWerewolf: God Fears a Strong Union

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Canadian rail strike: CN and CPKC compromise rail safety, don’t care about farmers, small businesses, supply chains, or their own employees. Their sole focus is boosting their bottom line

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Canada sends rail workers to binding arbitration - "Justin Trudeau's actions are cowardly, anti-worker, & proof that he will always cave to corporate greed."

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newsie.social/@LALegault/113008779212164048

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California: Amazon ruled joint employer of drivers, threatened employees, engaged in intimidation and other retaliation

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x.com/amazonteamsters/status/1826653831645515787

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Boeing: “The best in the industry used to crawl over shattered glass just to get an interview to work here. And now the company is begging high school students to apply.”

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Employees on strike at Swedish-owned gambling company. Management threatens to suspend health insurance, fire a thousand employees.

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Air Canada pilots vote 98% to strike after a year of negotiations without agreement

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Australia: Labor government attempting to drive out militants and kill union, amounts to saying “the law does not apply, we can do whatever we want”

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Cornell employees on strike: We have members who are on Section 8. The majority of our members can’t afford to live here in Ithaca, close to their job.

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17,000 AT&T employees on strike, say management sending representatives who do not have authority to make decisions and management reneging on agreements

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Germany: union representing video game employees pushes to build worker power on the job. "Organizing for justice is not a sidequest here, it is the main story line."

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Government invades offices of Nigeria Labour Congress, accusing it of sedition, seizes hundreds of books and other publications

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UK: Ambulances called to Amazon warehouses more than 10 times as often as those called to Tesco warehouse

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New Zealand: MRI and nuclear medicine techs strike against outsourcing

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Argentina: unions fight IMF and Basic Law that favors management and limits union action

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Wisconsin: Amazon management fails to classify employees as contractors, deny rights like overtime pay and unemployment insurance

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Trump praises billionaire Elon Musk for firing workers who were striking for better pay and working conditions

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UAW president blasts Trump as ‘all talk,’ draws sharp contrast with Harris

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Boston hotel workers authorize strike, total compensation for 15 Executive Officers enough to pay every union hotel worker $40 an hour

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UNITE HERE hotel workers march

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mastodon.social/…/112919894999366870

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India: preparations to escalate protest if central government insists on privatization or refuses to recognize Anganwadi workers as regular employees

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Bangladesh: police go on strike, apologize for being "forced to open fire"

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How Italian Workers Fought Back and Started an Eco-Revolution

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Alternative youtube link

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Amazon Quebec ordered to pay $30,000 for anti-union publications. Management intimidated employees who talked to union organizers by forcing them into "employee relations" interrogations

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New ‘Battery Belt’ Opens Organizing Front in the South

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Samsung: union activists picket outside chairman's house

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There is No Such Thing as a Pro-Labor Conservative

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