uniglobalunion.org UNI condemns violent response to peaceful protest against outsourcing at Banco Santander Brazil
UNI is in solidarity with Brazilian bank unions after a peaceful protest against outsourcing ended with police violence.
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Right to disconnect, Australia: employees no longer forced to respond to management after hours
timesofindia.indiatimes.com Right to disconnect: Australia allows workers to 'ignore their bosses after work hours' - Times of IndiaInternational Business News: Australian workers gained the right to ignore work-related contact outside designated hours under new legislation effective from Monday. Passed in Feb
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Canadian rail strike: CN and CPKC compromise rail safety, don’t care about farmers, small businesses, supply chains, or their own employees. Their sole focus is boosting their bottom line
www.teamstersrail.ca Teamsters Canada Rail | Latest News UpdatesTeamsters Canada Rail | Latest News Updates
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works California: Amazon ruled joint employer of drivers, threatened employees, engaged in intimidation and other retaliation
finance.yahoo.com TEAMSTERS WIN GROUNDBREAKING JOINT EMPLOYER DECISION AGAINST AMAZONAmazon delivery drivers represented by Teamsters Local 396 in Palmdale, Calif., won a groundbreaking decision that sets the stage for Amazon delivery drivers across the country to organize with the Teamsters. After more than a year-long investigation, National Labor Relations Board Region 31 (NLRB) ...
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Boeing: “The best in the industry used to crawl over shattered glass just to get an interview to work here. And now the company is begging high school students to apply.”
labornotes.org Striking Is in the Air at BoeingMondays and Wednesdays are loud at the vast Boeing factory in Everett, Washington. As the Machinists’ contract campaign heats up, the workforce has been serenading management at lunch with air horns, train horns, and vuvuzelas—plus chants of “Out the Door in ’24.” Forty miles south, in Renton, where...
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Employees on strike at Swedish-owned gambling company. Management threatens to suspend health insurance, fire a thousand employees.
uniglobalunion.org Situation at Evolution Gaming in Georgia critical as hunger strike continuesGaming workers at Evolution in Georgia, a Swedish-owned online gambling company, have been on hunger strike for more than a week, as the company refuses all attempts to engage with their union, EVO. Circumstances are getting more critical by the day since four activists began their protest on 12 Aug...
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Air Canada pilots vote 98% to strike after a year of negotiations without agreement
www.alpa.org News Room - ALPAThe Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) is the largest airline pilot union in the world and represents more than 78,000 pilots at 41 U.S. and Canadian airlines. Founded in 1931, the Association is chartered by the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress. Known internationally as US-AL...
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Australia: Labor government attempting to drive out militants and kill union, amounts to saying “the law does not apply, we can do whatever we want”
www.redblacknotes.com A bill to kill a union: What is actually in the government’s CFMEU legislationThe Albanese Labor government has done a deal with the Liberals to pass legislation aimed at destroying the CFMEU. Make no mistake, the government’s CFMEU Act is a plan to kill a union. The stronge…
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Cornell employees on strike: We have members who are on Section 8. The majority of our members can’t afford to live here in Ithaca, close to their job.
www.thenation.com Cornell University Workers Strike as Students Return to Campus“We have members who are on Section 8,” said one union representative. “The majority of our members can’t afford to live here in Ithaca, close to their job.”
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works 17,000 AT&T employees on strike, say management sending representatives who do not have authority to make decisions and management reneging on agreements
apnews.com 17,000 AT&T workers in Southeast strike over contract negotiationsMore than 17,000 AT&T workers in nine states across the Southeast are on strike. The Communications Workers of America represents the striking employees and says workers walked off the job Friday in response to AT&T’s failure to bargain in good faith.
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Germany: union representing video game employees pushes to build worker power on the job. "Organizing for justice is not a sidequest here, it is the main story line."
uniglobalunion.org German game workers at devcom form new association, issue demands for better working conditionsGerman gaming workers have issued a series of demands to improve workers' rights in throughout the industry.
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Government invades offices of Nigeria Labour Congress, accusing it of sedition, seizes hundreds of books and other publications
publicservices.international PSI condenms Occcupation of the Nigeria Labour CongressThe global leadership of Public Services International join hands with its leaders in Africa and Arab Country region to condemn the illegal occupation of the national secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja, by the Nigeria police.
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works UK: Ambulances called to Amazon warehouses more than 10 times as often as those called to Tesco warehouse
www.theguardian.com Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five yearsGMB union urges Health and Safety Executive to investigate ‘shocking’ figures revealed by the Observer
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works New Zealand: MRI and nuclear medicine techs strike against outsourcing
www.rnz.co.nz Hospital MRI and nuclear medicine technologists strike for four daysThe Apex union says they want the pay difference between public and private staff to be addressed.
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unions @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works Argentina: unions fight IMF and Basic Law that favors management and limits union action
www.plenglish.com ATE urges to strengthen unity of Argentinean organizationsBuenos Aires, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) The secretary general of the Argentine State Workers Association (ATE), Rodolfo Aguiar, urged today to strengthen the unity of action of all the sectors willing to fight against the government's policies.