Danish queen and king cancel tour of Faroe Islands due to strike of five major unions (www.msn.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)
Sex Workers Unite ! (lemmy.wtf)
The brand new Sex Workers Section of the CNT union of workers and precarious of Strasbourg (CNT - STP 67) call to mobilization for the International day of the Sex Workers Struggles. This day was chosen since the church occupation of Lyon in 1975; if french laws have changed, discriminations remain....
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)
From your "Friends" at the Freedom Foundation /s
Help ease the burden of inflation & the rising cost of living by opting out of your union to save hundreds every year...
Birmingham: drivers outside Uber UK premises protest falling pay (sh.itjust.works)
www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw993749e75o
Union-busting firms like Littler Mendelson and Morgan Lewis advise corporate management to break labor laws because of low violation costs (inthesetimes.com)
Grad students signing up 1000 supporters in one day, voting yes within weeks (labornotes.org)
Finland: right-wing government restricts political and sympathy strikes (www.industriall-union.org)
First ever Samsung strike, employees asking for raise and bonus pegged to company earnings (au.finance.yahoo.com)
Australia, hospital worker strike: "Nurses and support workers don’t expect to get rich working in public hospitals, but they certainly shouldn’t expect to be worse off every year" (unitedworkers.org.au)
India: unions call for end to outsourcing, withdrawal from WTO, policies favoring farmers and labourers, return of former pensions, release of union activists (indianexpress.com)
Nestle Canada: employees strike after rejecting offer given by management and recommended by union (www.just-food.com)
Indonesia props up for-profit water by intimidating protestors at their homes; forcing them to cancel event; blocking venues, food, and lodging; hacking organisation websites; attack conference (publicservices.international)
Kenya: air traffic workers denied union by misclassifying them as managers (www.itfglobal.org)
Australia: social workers are leaving the sector, one in three frontline workers rely on financial support from friends and family (womensagenda.com.au)
Oregon: Preschools close after teachers launch unionization, no attempt to reassign union supporters (www.portlandtribune.com)
To Win Big, Labor Has to Lose More (www.laborpolitics.com)
Niagara strike against forced overtime: scabs can't keep up, management asks for custody agreements if employee wants time with kids (archive.ph)
Google introduced mandatory training for full-timers on interacting with contractors to ensure it can avoid claims of “co-employment”, make clear that it’s not a “joint employer” (fortune.com)
Freeloader (sh.itjust.works)
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