Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (sh.itjust.works)
In-N-Out Burger bars employees in 5 states from wearing masks (www.nbcnews.com)
In-N-Out Burger is prohibiting employees in five states from wearing masks unless they receive a medical note from a doctor. Failure to comply could lead to termination.
French journalists strike against editor-in-chief from far-right magazine (www.rfi.fr)
Teamsters may strike at freight company for non-payment to health, welfare, pension funds (mastodon.social)
How to blame employees, not executives (kolektiva.social)
Tens of thousands of Korean health care workers go on general strike (sh.itjust.works)
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‘Physically Exhausting, Mentally Draining’, Amazon Warehouse Workers in NCR Share Their Woes | NewsClick (www.newsclick.in)
“Walking back and forth in the large warehouse in the scorching heat had peeled off the outer layer of my skin. I went to the management to ask for the leave. What I got in return was what I knew was the standard procedure in Amazon India warehouses on such an issue – they asked me to resign”
Domestic helpers being charged nearly 60pc more in excessive agency fees, union says (www.thestandard.com.hk)
Lawful fee should be 10 percent. 90 percent of victims Indonesian workers, some even had personal documents confiscated by agencies.
Blockade of temporary railway workers stopping train (www.kalerkantho.com)
Ron Perlman on writer strike: We know who said that (twitter.com)
There’s a lot of ways to lose their house. You wish that on people, you wish that families starve while you’re making 27 fucking million dollars a year. Be careful motherfucker, be really careful.
Workers at World's Largest Starbucks in Chicago Announce Union Drive (www.commondreams.org)
230 employees join over 8,500 unionizing across the United States
Writers join hotel workers on picket line (www.latimes.com)
“You would never imagine they have the same struggles as us — they’re from the movies. But it turns out we’re in the same boat. We need to make sure we don’t sink.” Nichols worked as a bellman for nine years, which paid bills as he pursues acting career. Seeing his two unions fighting side by side “is overwhelming...
John Cusack inside Hollywood: They get away with it because they can (mastodon.online)
Australia: Union wins over $5000 a week for tunnel workers (www.skynews.com.au)
AWU confirms rates were highest in country, recognise dangerous nature of the work
Australia: Finance Sector Union enshrine rights to request to work from home (www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au)
Hybrid work arrangements surge from 37% of job candidates to 89% in just two years. Workers relocating to different communities, generally experiencing improved wellbeing.
Shanghai delivery workers sign China's first collective contract (www.shine.cn)
Actors join writer strike: first tandem strike in Hollywood since 1960 (www.cnbc.com)
According to reports, producers expect writers will run out of money, possibly lose their homes and be forced to come to bargaining table. Producers denied these reports.
Amazon gives union-busting training to contractors, cancels contract when they accept union (labornotes.org)
UK: start of the longest single walkout by doctors in the NHS’s history (www.bma.org.uk)
UK: High Court strikes down first round of Conservative anti-union regulations (www.tuc.org.uk)
Another bill being rushed to force workers back to work or be fired
Auckland industrial action: Bus drivers giving free rides (www.scoop.co.nz)
WGA strike: Studios and producers to drag on until until union members start losing apartments, houses (deadline.com)
Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, others determined to “break the WGA.” Studios and producers believe by October writers will be running out of money after five months and no work, “a cruel but necessary evil.”
South Korea: 45,000 health workers in 145 workplaces to strike (peoplesdispatch.org)
80% of nurses under age of 30 considered career change due to work intensity and low income. One-third of nurses worked overtime, 22% skipping meals four times a week.
US labor agency sues Starbucks over treatment of Seattle workers (www.reuters.com)
Six Thousand Machinists Strike Boeing in Kansas (labornotes.org)
“We really want to be able to work a reasonable amount of time and afford to pay our bills without having to work 60 to 70 hours a week.” members voted 79 percent to rebuff the deal their union leaders had negotiated, and 85 percent to strike. “The union is very much in bed with the company”
