Volkswagen Tennessee: 70% of 4,000 employees sign union cards at world's only non-union VW plant (archive.ph)
UK: "Magnox seems to have money to burn for directors and shareholders but thinks it is acceptable to deny its workers a decent pay increase," 95% reject offer below inflation in consultative ballot (www.unitetheunion.org)
Quebec: Airbus employees vote 99.6% against offer below inflation, 98.9% vote for strike (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
Egypt: thousands of textile employees strike, thirteen arrested by National Security, two still detained (www.labourstartcampaigns.net)
UK: debt advice charity fires two thirds of staff after they announce strike, “I am shocked that the charity I joined with such hope had been contorted by management into something so despicable” (www.morningstaronline.co.uk)
Finland: There is a worrying trend among some governments to try to silence the rights of working people. The right to strike is the last resort of workers to exercise their democratic rights. (www.itfglobal.org)
Uber and Lyft, Minneapolis' only licensed rideshare companies, to pull out as new minimum pay comes into effect. Local startups, existing companies set to fill void. (m.startribune.com)
Coles employees offered gift cards while they can't afford to shop at own workplace, skip meals, rely on food assistance (www.pedestrian.tv)
Nova Scotia faculty and staff pay 14% behind inflation, while college hands out large increases to managers, positions given to friends of managers (globalnews.ca)
University of the South Pacific: staff votes 96% to strike after raise "way below" rise in cost of living (www.rnz.co.nz)
Amazon Kentucky: management interrogates union activists, demotes them, threatens to call police and terminate them (archive.ph)
Trader Joe's union-busting: threaten to take away raise for forming union. First store unionized in 2022. (www.huffpost.com)
How to pick a watermelon (sh.itjust.works)
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Union victim of arson attack after Panama persecutes leaders, closed union bank accounts (www.bwint.org)
Cabin crew employees join ground staff in strike against Lufthansa which announced record profits for 2023 (www.bbc.com)
Finland: thousands of port workers to join strikes against government's attacks on labor and social security (maritime-executive.com)
Fire Your Boss (sh.itjust.works)
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