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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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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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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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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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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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AFA-CWA president Sara Nelson is calling for a general strike

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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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Anti-Amazon protesters in Montreal rally once again for boycott demonstration

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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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The U.S. Saw Just Half Of The Number Of Strikes In 2024 As Canada

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

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

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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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Trump, Musk, And Unions Go To War Over New Federal Worker Accountability Requirements

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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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Finland: Industrial Union approves agreement, ending labour dispute. The agreement will grant technology industry workers a total wage increase of 7.8 percent over three years.

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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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The Business Lobby Wants To Take Paid Holidays From Toronto Workers

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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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Want to defeat Trump? Support unions | Eric Blanc

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Amazon workers in North Carolina vote against joining union

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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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South Africa: half of strikes in 2024 were wildcat strikes

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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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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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Minnesota labor rally backs drive to win unions at Delta Air Lines

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Sysco Teamsters Overwhelmingly Ratify Strong New Contract

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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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Federal employees union grows to record size amid DOGE attacks

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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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Pakistan: government employees on strike against privatisation, hold mass sit-ins in capital

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Finland: in show of solidarity, other unions carry out industrial action in support of Industrial Union

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Morocco: union demonstration in Casablanca. Government seeks to limit strikes.

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https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-workers-strike-nationwide-against-pm-anti-worker-bill

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How Philly Whole Foods Workers Beat Bezos

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Eric Blanc Feb 03, 2025

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Solidarity in Retreat: Labor must choose between deeper unity and shortsighted conciliation

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Gen Z: No one is coming to save us. It’s time to unionize.

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Iceland: teachers strike after unsuccessful negotiations

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https://grapevine.is/news/2025/01/29/teachers-to-resume-strikes/

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The mass protest of 25000 people has failed to convince the cabinet to reverse the disastrous cuts to higher education in the # Netherlands

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The mass protest of 25000 people has failed to convince the cabinet to reverse the disastrous cuts to higher education in the #Netherlands.

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Once-illegal unions were formed in the teeth of violent suppression. Violence was met with violence. Bosses had to hire armed guards as they scurried between their estates and their fancy parties.

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US: approval of unions at highest level in more than half a century

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Australia: Coles, Woolworths, Costco, Kmart push to scrap overtime and holiday pay

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When working people are scattered, intimidated, and demoralized, the boss has the upper hand. They want us to react fast, and individually. They want us to type “resign” into the email.

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https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/01/dont-panic-organize

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France: port workers strike. "The results of the asbestos analyses carried out in 2021 and 2022 in eleven ports have still not been published."

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Belgium teachers strike. Government plans to replace permanent jobs with indefinite-term contracts

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Federal workers union tells members: don’t resign via that email

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On the kneecapping of the NLRB: “I expect that workers with assistance from their advocates will take matters into their own hands in order to get well-deserved dignity and respect in the workplace”

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Whole Foods Philadelphia: first store wins union election after employees given free snacks following filing of petition

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Tufts strike: professors qualify for subsidized housing and food assistance

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Finland: prime minister worried about wave of strikes, including strikes among expert and managerial staff in 20 companies

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Delta workers push for a vote to unionize in MN

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Australia: airport employees strike against outsourcing, elimination of full-time and permanent employment

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‘Fighting Goliath’: Amazon workers to hold union election at North Carolina warehouse

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Amazon to close Quebec facilities, but says it's not because of that new union

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Costco employees authorize strike over management's failure to bargain constructively after record-breaking profits

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Costco union representing 18,000 workers authorizes nationwide strike

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the time of his assassination came when he was calling for a coalition of all the poor Black and white, and urging that they create a union. He was arousing a sleeping giant when he was cut down.

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https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/113850767413584173

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France: video game bosses are clowns with over-inflated egos, only accepting totalitarian control and vainly trying to hide their incompetence by treating workers and consumers like children

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Providence Health: 5000 nurses, doctors on strike. "Providence used to be a nice community hospital, and now it’s venture capital with health care as a side gig."

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Union Election Set at North Carolina Amazon Warehouse - ‘An Historic Moment in South’: Interview with CAUSE President

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By Mark Satinoff January 15, 2025

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Canada CUPE strike: "government and school board... don't believe [educational assistants] should be able to afford to live. It's unconscionable.

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Canada: 99% of rail workers at CPKC vote in favor of strike against contract work, forced overtime, and policies damaging work-life balance

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Greece: call center for Apple, Google, Microsoft and Netflix not allowing bathroom breaks, terminating for sickness and union support

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Four Things to Know From Our Investigation of the Home Healthcare Workers of America, New York’s Fastest-Growing Union

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Cyprus: port workers strike and sit-in against poor working conditions and violations of collective bargaining agreement

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Belgium: unions mobilise against austerity and attacks on pensions and worker protections

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Why We Need a Democratic and Militant Union

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India: "corporate messiah" urges 90 hour work week while share of wages down from 27.64% to 15.94%, share of net profit up from 19.06% to 51.92%

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The Video Game Industry Is Unionizing

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The Video Game Industry Is Unionizing

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Vail ski patrol union wins raise and guarantee of parity if wages raised at non-union resorts

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Romania: 45,000 employees in entire finance sector win minimum wage, guaranteed overtime pay, and minimum lunch break

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Philippines: Food delivery management loses appeal, base pay enforced, employer-employee relationship recognized

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