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Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are employees in New Zealand, opening door for sick leave, holiday pay, and minimum wage. Gig companies warn of collapse if forced to pay decent wage.

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Strikebreakers in Birmingham to go on strike themselves

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"Magistrates should not be forced to go to the streets" - on verge of mutiny in South Africa. Magistrates earn in month what senior counsel earn in a day. Many in debt review or blacklisted

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NSW government orders nurses and midwives to stop organizing and striking, orders removal of strike information from social media. Union defies government, fined $130,000 for doing so.

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Canadian government accused of retreat from humanitarian obligations, scapegoating migrants, delivering corporate and military handouts rather than addressing the actual drivers of unaffordability

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Strike at University of California: "Be aware of transportation issues, but don't allow management to weaponize your frustration to target striking workers."

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Ministry of Labour in India favors employers over employees. Violation of labour law no longer criminal offense. House arrest for employees who speak out.

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CEOs in Ireland pay increase - I’m not sure too many would have been struggling at the checkout when buying groceries or dreading an electricity or gas bill

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CEO committed to dialogue when taking over Starbucks, yet negotiations going backwards. Starbucks closing Seattle's unionized flagship store. Over 1000 on strike. Stock down 1% Thursday

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Race to the Bottom - What do the union struggles of IT workers in India tell us about the present crisis in the global tech sector?

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Starbucks workers strike at some stores nationwide in 'Red Cup rebellion,' union says

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'I need a second job,' says woman who actually needs a different economic system. If you need a second job, your boss in your first job is exploiting you

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General Strike - What are the consequences of those who join?

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The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6 | People Make Games [19:17]

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Iranian Oil Workers Launch Historic Strike

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38877961

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Thousands of construction workers in Geneva and Lausanne reject builders’ association proposals for longer working hours, wage reductions, and weaker protections for older, sick, or injured workers

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https://www.bwint.org/BwiNews/NewsDetails?newsId=896

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161 unions protest 12 hour day, pension changes in Ahmedabad

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https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/local/gujarat/ahmedabad/news/indian-labor-union-stages-grand-rally-at-riverfront-ahmedabad-workers-protest-against-12-hour-work-schedule-136382818.html

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CondΓ© Nast management fires union members asking about the shutdown of progressive publication critical of Trump, suspends other union supporters

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Caesars hires union-buster Littler Mendelson to run captive-audience meetings, threats, surveillance, and propaganda. Politicians give Caesars all land besides casino to break pickets

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Tens of thousands in Lisbon protest bill that would make dismissals easier, limit breastfeeding schedule, and reduce miscarriage leave

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https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/world/tens-of-thousands-in-portugal-protest-proposed-labor-reforms/article_d4739952-5f18-580b-84bb-813a82b546e5.html

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"The Labour Party is selling out the working class – it always has been" - strike outside British Library, employees using food banks, on benefits, working other jobs.

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https://wrp.org.uk/news/mass-picket-at-british-library/

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UC nurses to strike in solidarity with other health care workers. Many union members sleeping in cars, on SNAP, and are one paycheck away from eviction

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Largest strike since New Zealand's 1979 general strike, against privatization, austerity, and funding landlords, tobacco companies, and big business

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TSA in Houston: "the whole airport shut down, nobody came to work"

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Many grad students don't have reliable access to food. Grad students are too busy and too insecure to stop working, even for protest.

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Apple supplier excludes pro-union voters, threatens deportation and eviction, denies raises and benefits to union supporters, confiscates phones to prevent documentation

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First contract wins for Essentia nurses

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Government uses teargas, beatings, live ammunition to enforce IMF policy in Ecuador. 3 die. National strike ends.

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Labor activist takes on Teamsters leader allying with Trump: β€˜He doesn’t represent the workers’

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Rockstar Games fires over 30 employees, all were part of pro-union Discord group, "one of the most blatant and ruthless acts of union busting in the history of the games industry"

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50,000 teachers forced back to work by Alberta government. Students walk out in support of teachers, Education Minister attempts to stop them.

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Starbucks benefits - "Yes, there's free Headspace and Spotify, but I don't know any landlords who accept that"

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3,100 Tenet nurses to hold one-day strike Oct. 30 for patient safety at six California hospitals

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"I am a peaceful soul who would much rather feed people than go around curb stomping my enemies. What I'm saying is that the violent methods inevitably return when less violent means are taken away"

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Alberta Charter: "if the government puts a gun to the head of the teachers and they’re not able to continue their strike, then we in the broader labour movement will stand where they’re not able to"

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Burnout at the Stake - How to spot activist burnout, and what to do if you get burnt πŸ”₯

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Never underestimate the human capacity for screwing others over

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Thousands of Starbucks workers could be set to go on strike. Here's what to know.

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[Minnesota] 600 Allina Health medical personnel vote to strike in potentially largest Doctor's strike in US history

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It's official: Teamsters President Sean O'Brien is a **Class Traitor & Republican Stooge** - (Details in post body)

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A Teamster posted images of a fund raising letter they received from President Sean O’Brien on r/Union (warning: reddit link).

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New Zealand β€˜mega strike’: 100,000 public sector workers demand better conditions

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UPS to Expedite A/C Vehicles to Hottest States

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A brief history of corporate whining: Government has been privatized in the West

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Artificial Intelligence: Workers' unions must shape deployment and regulation

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As Kaiser Workers Strike, β€œNot-For-Profit” Is Sitting on $67 Billion

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Horseshoe Casino Workers Strike for Teamsters Representation

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Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Gear Up for a Potential Strike

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The UAW Is Still Fighting to Unionize Auto in the South

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Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against Trump: β€˜You need a voice to have freedom’

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Michael Sainato Sat 18 Oct 2025 05.00 EDT

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Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Gear Up for a Potential Strike

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Firefighters with supporters on the picket line in New Zealand

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https://union.place/@unionsmanawatu/115393525487664398

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100 Hearthstone artists, designers, testers unionize: we need to have some say in these massive decisions that are affecting all of us

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"Kaiser CEO making $12 million a year is rather disgusting... we're out here just asking for fair market wage... Kaiser premiums are going up, it just makes you question where all the money is going."

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Premier of Alberta uses misleading "21 students per class" statistic to make striking teachers look bad

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The General Strike

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Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts

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Sai Englert 15 October 2025 12:09 BST Last update: ~ 07:00 EDT

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Teamsters at West Contra Costa Unified School District Authorize Strike

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Teamsters Win Nationwide Sanitation Strike Against Republic Services

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Teamsters Strike Herbal Wellness Center

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AFL-CIO Launches β€˜Workers First Initiative on AI’ to Put American Workers at the Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Billions on military drones and aircraft, fortunes of wealthy, while Belgian government threatens social security, public services, right to protest, social democracy, and independent judiciary

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Kaiser buys polished anti-union ads; UNAC/UHCP marks largest strike in history by 31,000 nurses, pharmacists, midwives, physician assistants, rehab therapists, speech language pathologists, dietitians

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Management threatens to blacklist employees that refuse to cross picket lines of Birmingham bin workers

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"I really experience the alienation that Marx talked about" - first Half Price Books in California unionizes

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UK workers at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM have unionized

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Power company employees, including engineers, officers, contract workers, defy Indian government, strike illegally, engage in sit-ins

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Emergency rooms acquired by private equity linked to staffing cuts, salary cuts, and increased death rate

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Italy’s Tide of Solidarity With Gaza

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Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally

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Sysco Teamsters in California Authorize Strike

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Canada’s largest private sector union urges government to keep surtax on EVs imported from China

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A fun way for Starbucks workers to win recognition: keep doors open, but give away company coffee, pastries for FREE

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Alberta teachers: Our working conditions are your child's learning conditions

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https://beige.party/@ned/115324944362174556

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Chilean casino management: "they need to adaptβ€”and if they don’t want to, there are plenty of people waiting in line." That’s how the union was born, because they lied about everything promised

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Management at Tata Consultancy Services forces thousands of employees to resign, under threat of not being paid and becoming blacklisted in the industry.

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Federal unions sue White House, demand immediate end to shutdown

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Teamsters Strike Brulin Holding Company Over Unfair Labor Practices

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Teamsters at Sysco Portland Authorize Strike

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Strikers enter Tesla showrooms in Paris, demand higher taxes on wealthy

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"This government is committed to the International Monetary Fund and its classic neoliberal agenda" - government protects policies by kicking and beating Ecuadorians, after having already killed one

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Tens of thousands of workers, students, pensioners demonstrate against austerity, call for taxing the wealthy in France.

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Unions sue Trump administration over shutdown RIF plans

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Attack injures over 20 nurses during demonstration in Kenya. Union threatens nationwide strike.

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National Nurses United and UE call for end to military operations, blockade in Palestine

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Dozens of unions weigh in on government shutdown: administration attacks those who keep country running; executive engaging in blatant union busting; CEOs and billionaires want to keep workers divided

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South Africa: "The energy crisis was created by capitalism, corruption, and a deliberate project to collapse a public good... The solution is democratic public ownership, worker and community control"

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Federal Agency Finds Volkswagen to Have Broken Labor Law, Orders Immediate Recognition of Union

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Ready to Stand Up against corporate greed? Join the May 1, 2028 movement! - UAW's call for a General Strike

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If you aren’t in a union, then please consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we finally manage to enact one.

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Haaland urges higher wages for medical residents, wading in on UNM-union dispute

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Dockworkers Across Europe Meet to Call a General Strike for Gaza

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Union action reverses attempt to remove democracy by management at Irish university

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Farm Workers in Western New York Allege Wafler Nursery Failed To Recognize Their Union

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Signal Ohio workers win union recognition from employer

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The UAW’s Shawn Fain on Union Growth and Union Power

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U.S. and Canadian unions demand arms cutoff to Israel

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CDC Removes Disability as Reasonable Accommodation for Remote Work, Backtracks After Union Pressure

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University gives president $1,000,000 raise, while workers get 2.2%. Union cards practically sign themselves.

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Michigan Teamsters Win Strong First Contract at National Trails

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Teamsters grows influence in Amazon's food network via UNFI success

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Unions Improve Social Well-Being Even For Non-Members

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Greater unionization rates improve the environment, income equality and public health, according to a new CCPA report.

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