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Gig companies "leave workers at the mercy of unstable and subminimum wages, little social protection, and in constant fear of termination without recourse" despite meeting criteria for employee status

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REI board blocks pro-union candidates from board election, pushes corporate candidates. Union and REI members successfully reject corporate candidates

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Blizzard's Overwatch 2: 200 artists, testers, writers, and engineers form wall-to-wall union

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UK: union members from around the country join megapicket with Birmingham refuse workers

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62n8k27e61o

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Privatization in Canada: "Albertans deserve a government that cares about quality public health care, not gifting hospitals to their greedy friends or selling them to the highest bidder"

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India: millions of workers ready for general strike on May 20, for higher minimum wages, fixed working hours, and a rollback of the government’s anti-worker policies

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Demonstrators in the streets in Philadelphia, Buenos Aires

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https://apnews.com/article/may-day-workers-labor-unions-rallies-marches-trump-46de8196d7f01d7458c3d77ccd5e0e54

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Labour Day demonstrations in Manila, Athens, 2025

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/may-day-protests-trump-photos/

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Paris, Seoul march for worker rights, May 1, 2025

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https://www.france24.com/en/business/20250501-live-workers-worldwide-rally-for-rights-social-justice-at-may-day-protests

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55,000 LA County employees on strike against management’s violations of labor law

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https://www.seiu721.org/2025/04/10000-plus-seiu-721-members-march-during-county-ulp-strike.php

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Billionaires buy politicians to write rules for themselves, to dodge taxes, exploit workers, fuel division, pollute our environment and destroy public services – all while raking in obscene profits.

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School support staff offered 3.2% pay rise

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Arbutus Club strike: club receives tens of thousands of dollars in initiation fees from city's wealthiest, while employee wages fall far behind inflation and cost of living in Metro Vancouver

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US: Find a May Day event near you

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Molson Coors strike: management brings in non-union salaried employees and temporary higher-waged employees as scabs. Picketers block company trucks, backing up traffic, but motorists support union.

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Canada: Alberta Federation of Labour holds Common Front Resistance Rally at legislature

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https://newsie.social/@apaulagetics/114412975184213014

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Malicious Compliance & Work to Rule: 2 easy & legal forms of sabotage to fuck with the boss

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https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/114388082077997579

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Spain: 5000 hospitality employees strike, cheered on by many customers waving union flags handed out by strikers

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End Slavery in Minnesota Bill Advocates for Fair Wages in Prisons

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Employer lobby successfully pushes Irish Cabinet to backtrack on living wage, paid sick leave, and other support for low-paid, sick, young, migrant, and retired employees

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Over 1000 lawyers, in 42 states, trained to do pro bono work for federal employees being attacked by DOGE. “We are still operating as though there is a rule of law”

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Birmingham bin workers reject deal to end strike

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"When radical things happen, only fools do not become more radical."

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Hong Kong: airline gives CEO 35% raise while lower level employees still dealing with pay cuts and other detrimental changes since pandemic

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Greek general strike: employees push for return of bargaining rights scrapped as part of international bailouts

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https://www.byteseu.com/910348/

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Cyprus: management terminates employee for asking for raise mere days after collective organizing

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Argentina general strike: government asks for new IMF loan, pushes austerity, reduces purchasing power despite positive macroeconomic figures

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https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250409-argentina-braces-for-24-hour-strike-as-it-awaits-news-on-imf-loan

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Cyprus: union says 74% of workers unable to save money due to IMF neoliberalism

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Philippines: Labor rights group calls for abolition of National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, said to label labor groups as insurrectionists and subjecting them to violence

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University of Oregon: 94.5% students authorize a strike for raise and two paychecks per month. University violated state law issuing paychecks more than 35 days apart.

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UK sanitation worker strike: union pickets block scab pickups. National government ready to step in against union.

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New Zealand: government aims to cut jobs helping tenants and public housing while cutting taxes for landlords

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Belgian general strike against austerity: "working people refuse to be scapegoated for a budget crisis created by political choices that prioritise profit over people"

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India: Samsung management retaliates after hundreds of union members allegedly try to force entry into management offices from lobby

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Trump ending collective bargaining for federal workers: Canadian remembers their own wildcat strike of 1965, which ultimately secured collective bargaining rights for public sector employees

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Senegal: management fires over 100 truck drivers after they asked for protective equipment

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Postal employees rally against DOGE: "It’s about rich versus poor. Who built this country? It wasn’t people in suits. It was people in coveralls."

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South Korea: union members strike for impeachment of president. Government declares political strike illegal.

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https://www.mk.co.kr/en/society/11275392

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Don't panic, organise

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Canada: DHL seeks to decrease work-from-home and force logging of bathroom use

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Microsoft Romania: first CBA signed in leading multinational tech company

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UK: three strikebreakers dismissed by management after talking to picketers. They join strike

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CWA starts new direct-join union for all video game workers, including unemployed ones. "We can no longer expect to rely on traditional legal frameworks..."

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Denmark: government plans to hand postal service to private monopoly that uses precarious employees. Union expects further price increases and service deterioration.

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Chile: Metro work week decreased from 45 to 40 hours - "we are supporting the principle that we work to live, not the other way around."

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Serbian "Anarhosindikalistička inicijativa" with articles on the ongoing protests

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"Uberfication" encroaching on teaching profession, including at Oxford, leaves teachers scrambling for precarious work

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Amazon management fires employees for social media posts, pays "ambassadors" to counter all posts and comments from customers, influencers, and policymakers regarding working conditions

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Argentina: general strike called against repression of protests, economic policies like wage suppression, and increased IMF debt

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Netherlands: 160 professors lead strike against privatization of research and academia

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https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kkteoxwif4ia4ltayria4ops/post/3lkbbfz43dk2o

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Starbucks: Employees stage sit-in in Chicago, 11 arrested for criminal trespass

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India: "We are not your slaves" - IT employees clash with police, burn posters of founders of Infosys and L&T over unpaid labor, 90 hour weeks, and 14 hour days

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Germany: Ubisoft game devs seek to hold management accountable for layoffs. "The bosses take the profits, but don’t care for the workers."

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Argentina: "we will all be retirees" - retirees organize march against government over pensions, joined by football fans and unions. Government responds with tear gas and water jets

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Philippines: semiconductor employees defy government order to return to work, barricade entrance. Management increases wages, reinstates union officials dismissed during negotiations

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California: transportation employees strike, picketers struck by truck in hit-and-run, one hospitalized

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Tampa, Florida Starbucks unionizes. 23 more Starbucks announce unionization campaigns

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Germany: employees at US bases to strike. Union had asked for and was refused a one-time payment of 320 euros and 3% raise

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Pakistan: union members sit-in at railway headquarters, say IMF and World Bank pushing for privatization that would be disastrous for both workers and travel prices

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Uber for nurses: tech companies accused of accessing nurse financial situation to determine pay based on level of desperation

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UK: union members fired for strike. Management threatened to discipline employees for not issuing enough parking tickets

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Canada: thousands of union members at Alberta Legislature rally for education support workers

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https://newsie.social/@apaulagetics/114082684880988673

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South Africa: employees wildcat strike over unsafe buses. Management dismisses strikers, later admits buses not roadworthy

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Greece: “You count profits. We count lives.” Hundreds of thousands in streets for general strike on anniversary of rail disaster

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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/anger-mounts-over-rail-disaster-063509158.html

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EU Commission cuts human rights requirements for businesses. Union says unscrupulous corporations will now make it more difficult for responsible businesses to survive

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Fiji: town council employees strike, CEO removed, employees return to work

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Omni Air International: 99% of pilots voting authorize strike. 91% report schedules that cause fatigue; 40% say management pushes for unsafe practices and violations of aviation regulations

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UK: Birmingham City Council plans to use scabs to break strike, despite it being unlawful

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Finland: Professional and managerial staff to strike at major engineering and tech firms

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Canada: Amazon management accused of hiring a flood of seasonal workers to dilute pro-union sentiment

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Greece: general strike on anniversary of train crash, involving alleged coverup

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On the NLRB: Why go into enemy territory? It’s important to recognize that direct action is the only way to receive the benefits you’re looking for. You can’t depend on a government agency.

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Ghana: privatization supporters continue push despite failures to lower prices and improve services. A study led by OECD found that privatized electricity had 23% higher costs.

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Cyprus: "An Injury to One is an Injury to All!" Entire staff strikes after management terminates employee after forming union and asking for a raise.

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Canada: custodial and maintenance staff approves strike, many without wage increase after a decade seeing 30% inflation. “Many of our members work two or three jobs. Many live on the edge of poverty.”

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Toronto: union of nearly 30,000 municipal employees approves strike due to “years of stagnating wages amid rising inflation.”

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US: Unions say privatizing postal services in Europe have led to reduced services, increased prices, job losses, and cut off rural communities

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South Korea: government sentences union activists to prison after threatening to break strike with commandos and special forces

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France: unions rally against far-right attack at film screening, beating audience members, stabbing one

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popular resistance will only come from concerted collective action, which is something few people in the U.S. have any experience with. The big exception are union members.

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India: Samsung management plans on locking factory gates to prevent strikers from taking over factory

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Canada: LifeLabs employees strike - "we are not going to allow their profit margins to increase on the backs of the patients and our members who work at LifeLabs"

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UK: bus drivers approve strike after management intimidates employees into driving despite safety concerns, suspend those who refuse

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New Zealand: Minister won't meet with Council of Trade Unions, country’s largest democratic organisation. "she doesn’t want to hear our view, she has a different view – pro-employer and anti-worker"

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Greece: nationwide strikes against outsourcing and use of contracts rather than making employees permanent

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Federal workers vs Elon Musk: I’ve never seen a billionaire carry the mail, put out a forest fire, make sure people get their Social Security checks, answer a phone call from a suicidal veteran

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Solidarity with Belgian unions: The hard-right scapegoats women, minorities, and the most vulnerable. They use anger against elites as a tool to divide, yet when in power, they serve those same elites

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South Africa: half of strikes in 2024 were wildcat strikes

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Oregon: hospitals threaten health care for nurses who do not agree to their conditions. "Providence executives - who earn millions in salaries - should focus on settling a fair contract."

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Peet’s Enacts Sweeping Heavy-handed Discipline on Union Members

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That Glorious Land Above the Sky: Heaven and Hell in the Songs of Joe Hill

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"Any attack against civil servants and working class people is an attack against the American people. We can't depend on the Democrats or the Republicans."

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Minneapolis: First Avenue venue and 6 sister clubs unanimously ratify first contract covering 230 staff

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Cameroon sugar cane strike turns into riot. Government kills one protestor, several injured, including police. 150 hectares up in smoke.

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India: Samsung Electronics suspends three union activists. Employees respond with sit-in.

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Girl Scouts of Colorado honor picket lines at King Soopers, despite potential loss of income, learn about history of strikes and why people strike

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Cartoon: No Pain, No Thane!

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Food Fight: February Edition

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No NLRB? No Problem

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Scotland: local council threatens to fire, hire employees for not agreeing with policies. Union threatens to remove their grant funding by removing Fair Work status. Council "pauses" threat.

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