Ireland: 67% of people between 16 and 24 years positively disposed to unions, significant and growing positive shift (www.thejournal.ie)
Kenya pressured by unions around the world to investigate near-fatal teargas canister attack on union leader (publicservices.international)
Picketing over Australian mega fund's history of wage theft and union busting, including imprisonment for defrauding pension fund (www.superreview.com.au)
Bangladesh: Union leader and 20 supporters attacked and injured during demonstration (uniglobalunion.org)
Finland: Unions to continue strikes against right-wing policies (sh.itjust.works)
sak.fi/…/sak-and-affiliates-continue-strikes-furt…
Morocco union says phosphates management implementing discrimination, gerrymandering, union-busting, reverting to fascist mentality of Hassan II (dzair-tube.dz)
India: care workers strike to be recognized as government employees and granted employee rights; government responds with fake news and threatens to break strike (www.aicctu.org)
Elon Musk made $95 billion; if he earned that, he shouldn’t have any trouble picking up the slack if his entire workforce goes on strike (mastodon.social)
"Just like the minimum wage, good employers have nothing to fear" - UK union on proposed standards for employers (www.morningstaronline.co.uk)
Ontario: municipal workers on strike, vehicles charge at picket lines, town refuses to respond (ofl.ca)
Union leaders missing after attack and abduction in Philippines (www.bwint.org)
BU graduate students vote to strike, paid $27k to $40k while living wage $62k, some forced to use food pantry (working-mass.com)
Canada art gallery strike: $100 million and not thinking about employees, they know they're biggest game in town and they can push people around (www.cbc.ca)
Philippines: semiconductor company to lay off 54 union members while collective bargaining negotiations underway (www.bulatlat.com)
South Africa: Vodacom CEO paid more in year than most earn in entire career, profits growing, sends 80 into unemployment where they will struggle to find work, be danger of losing their homes (mediadon.co.za)
GDC: One year, we decided let’s share salary numbers, because we felt some of us weren’t getting paid enough. So we shared this information and we all ended up getting really nice raises that year (www.gamedeveloper.com)
UK: private schools plan to fire and rehire teachers into plans with worse pensions, teachers go on strike (www.morningstaronline.co.uk)
South Africa: workers send rubbish to City Hall, “We don’t even have rats and ants, not even cockroaches in our homes, because there is no food.” (groundup.org.za)
REI switched to Morgan Lewis, same firm whose attorneys have argued on behalf of Trader Joe’s and SpaceX that National Labor Relations Board itself is unconstitutional (www.huffpost.com)
Colorado: union pushes for bill to protect employees who refuse to attend religious, political, and anti-union company meetings (www.cbsnews.com)
Finland: "three hundred thousand workers, from lorry drivers and electricians to kindergarten teachers and white-collar office workers, across the country were on strike" (jacobin.com)
First-year wage increases in union contracts, since 2008 (sh.itjust.works)
www.commondreams.org/news/wages-union-workers