Washington state: farm workers excluded from union and collective bargaining rights, face retaliation for standing up against mushroom company. In solidarity, ILWU refuses to load company shipments (www.thestand.org)
Blue Bird employees vote union in South. Management responds by curtailing lunch breaks and cracking down on worker discipline. (grist.org)
Saudi Arabia, where unions banned, set to host FIFA 2034, faces human rights challenge for forced labor, debt bondage, denying migrants access to their own documents (www.theguardian.com)
Starbucks management no longer urging anti-union vote, leads to wave of stores filing for union elections (portside.org)
Canadian summer of discontent: border management claims employees not allowed to work to rule. "People would be doing their work... How can you discipline people for following procedure?" (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
Germany: hospital management hires union-busting law firm, dismisses union supporters without notice (mastodon.social)
Union-busting firms like Littler Mendelson and Morgan Lewis advise corporate management to break labor laws because of low violation costs (inthesetimes.com)
Washington state: farm workers excluded from union and collective bargaining rights, face retaliation for standing up against mushroom company. In solidarity, ILWU refuses to load company shipments (www.thestand.org)
Fake video call fools UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron (www.bbc.com)
Blue Bird employees vote union in South. Management responds by curtailing lunch breaks and cracking down on worker discipline. (grist.org)
Saudi Arabia, where unions banned, set to host FIFA 2034, faces human rights challenge for forced labor, debt bondage, denying migrants access to their own documents (www.theguardian.com)
Starbucks management no longer urging anti-union vote, leads to wave of stores filing for union elections (portside.org)
Canadian summer of discontent: border management claims employees not allowed to work to rule. "People would be doing their work... How can you discipline people for following procedure?" (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
I lost my job to AI this week... (www.youtube.com)
After successful animal trials, human trials to begin for tooth regrowth drug (www.theregister.com)
Germany: hospital management hires union-busting law firm, dismisses union supporters without notice (mastodon.social)
Union-busting firms like Littler Mendelson and Morgan Lewis advise corporate management to break labor laws because of low violation costs (inthesetimes.com)
Finland: right-wing government restricts political and sympathy strikes (www.industriall-union.org)
Danish queen and king cancel tour of Faroe Islands due to strike of five major unions (www.msn.com)
Nicaragua and Russia to strengthen military-technical cooperation (www.plenglish.com)
Study says Europeans fear migration more than climate change – DW – 05/08/2024 (www.dw.com)