Teachers kick off strike in Portland, Oregon, over class sizes, pay and resources (abcnews.go.com)
Amazon allegedly breaks labor law, terminates unit of organized employees (teamster.org)
[Meme] We're not "in it together" (lemmy.ml)
Pouring $18 Superbowl beers for $14.25 an hour: "I work three jobs and I still qualify for Medicaid" (www.motherjones.com)
Kaiser: optometrists, pharmacists, nurses, assistants, technicians vote 98% to authorize largest healthcare strike in U.S. history (www.marylandmatters.org)
Media coverage of UAW: “What really gets me is how the news talks like we get $60 or $70 an hour... New temps get $16 an hour and no raises, no vacation, no sick days. It’s hard to live like that.” (labornotes.org)
Grindr unionization: management mutes employees during all-hands (www.vice.com)
When employee turned on mic to ask question, management ended meeting. During next all-hands, management muted attendees....
I deliver food to your door, but not this Valentine’s Day. Here’s why we are on strike in the UK | Anonymous food courier (www.theguardian.com)
Remember: no scabbing, that includes the customer too.
The Battle Against the Automakers Is More Than a Strike, It's Class Warfare (www.newsweek.com)
If workers staying at home for a few weeks causes the entire global economy to shut down, then that should be a stark reminder that labor creates all wealth. (mastodon.social)
N.J. hospital plans to cut off striking nurses’ health care benefits (www.nj.com)
archive.is/…/nj-hospital-plans-to-cut-off-strikin…
Edmonton: "this is pathetic... And here I thought my latest collective agreement, which was double this yet still below inflation, was a poor offer." (historians.social)
Calls to ban Amazon lobbyists from EU Parliament: "Amazon shows the same disrespect to democratic institutions it shows to its workers" (uniglobalunion.org)
The IWW code of Industrial Democracy (sh.itjust.works)
mastodon.social/…/111800426214555464
Austerity Has Always Been a Project to Empower Capital at the Expense of Workers (jacobin.com)
United Auto Workers union calls for "immediate, permanent cease-fire" in Israel-Hamas war, becoming largest labor union to do so (www.cbsnews.com)
Barcelona port workers refuse to ship arms to Israel (www.wsws.org)
Cannabis Workers in Natick, MA, voted 13-4 to form a union! (nitter.net)
The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big (www.vox.com)
"The 40% raise that the UAW is asking for (and that the CEOs are saying is so unreasonable) would move workers’ wages to where they would have been had COLA been in place since 2008." (freethoughtblogs.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5616578...
"Hormel’s record profits are just wages not shared fairly with the rest of us." "People working there and having to get food stamps, because they don’t make enough money." (kstp.com)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985–1986_Hormel_strike...
"I'm sure the op-ed applauding teachings unions for keeping kids in school is right around the corner." (sh.itjust.works)
Source: urbanists.social/
Walmart to *lower* wages by $1, possibly setting industry standard (www.thestreet.com)
More than 99% of voting flight attendants at American Airlines approve strike (www.cbsnews.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/4068290...