Canada: union rejects 2% raise when inflation at 8% (globalnews.ca)
And they certainly don't deserve unlimited luxury at the expense of you not being able to afford groceries (sh.itjust.works)
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The 8-hour day was won by going on strike, facing the National Guard and the army (todon.eu)
Pharmageddon: Pharmacy staff at CVS, Walgreens strike without union (finance.yahoo.com)
Walmart to *lower* wages by $1, possibly setting industry standard (www.thestreet.com)
Trader Joe's hires union-busting law firm, fires union supporters (sign.moveon.org)
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Greece: protest against bill increasing maximum working hours to 13 hours per day, 78 hours per week, restricting strikes with 6 months in prison and €5,000 fine in event of blockage at workplace (kolektiva.social)
Choosing to lose $300M to $500M to break unions (sh.itjust.works)
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By imposing policies unilaterally and threatening workers with punishment if they don’t comply, New York Times management is behaving as though the employees never unionized (fortune.com)
The Strikes Are Working (nymag.com)
"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)
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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)
Macy's Black Friday strike: employees use food banks, can't afford doctors while profits over $1 billion, management spent $600 million in buybacks, paid out $173 million in dividends (www.theguardian.com)
Teachers earn 25% more in states where they have collective bargaining. Still, average teacher salary is 6.4% less today than it was a decade ago adjusted for inflation (www.wweek.com)
Your enemy is not the people struggling to survive (sh.itjust.works)
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UAW, 1937: Instead of you paying him, he pays you (sh.itjust.works)
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"it’s hard not to see stuff like this and think there’s just been a fundamental shift in how the general populace views unions and strikes" (sh.itjust.works)
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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....
More than 99% of voting flight attendants at American Airlines approve strike (www.cbsnews.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/4068290...
Walt Disney Pictures Visual Effects Workers File to Unionize (themessenger.com)
Low-Wage 100: Lowe's could have paid every employee $47k more last year (ips-dc.org)
Paid $13/Hr. to Sell $10 Beers, Super Bowl Stadium Workers Launch Organizing Drive (www.work-bites.com)
Just days before the start of Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, Nevada’s Culinary Union announced a drive to organize the about 1,500 nonunion workers at Allegiant Stadium, site of this year’s gridiron showdown between the 49ers and Chiefs....
What happened? (sh.itjust.works)
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