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We now have a general Labor focused community. Please feel free to contribute. (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14381867

The /c/unions community kept getting non union general labor interest posts and shockingly there are not really many general labor focused communities on Lemmy. So I've made one here.

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Why You Might Soon Be Paid Like an Uber Driver—Even If You’re Not One (slate.com)
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Philippines: commission rules that riders for food delivery company are employees rather than contractors (www.sunstar.com.ph)
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Indonesia: Health workers to strike if minimum wage not enforced and increased after real wage decline of 30% over 10 years (en.tempo.co)
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Rwanda: union grows from 200 in 2008, to 78k this year (www.bwint.org)
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UC presidents given additional two hundred thousand a year, on top of seven hundred to eight hundred thousand, while some employees sleep in cars (www.uscannenbergmedia.com)
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Italy: hooded attackers target leatherworkers on picket line, employees from other firms strike in solidarity (au.fashionnetwork.com)
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Caterpillar Mexico: management continues to intimidate, retaliate, and exclude union members; public pressure forced reinstatement of union leader (www.industriall-union.org)
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India: strike leads to political crisis over Tamil Nadu's image as "investor-friendly" state (indianexpress.com)
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The Chippendales Dancers Are Seeking to Unionize (www.them.us)
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Samsung India: government files cases against 625 employees and union activists during strike for union recognition, higher wages, and 8-hour workday (www.news9live.com)
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Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break" (www.ragtrader.com.au)
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US Dockworker Strike Wins 62% Raises (internationalsocialist.net)
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McGill drops legal attempt to deny law professors right to union (www.cbc.ca)
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Egypt: Union activist blindfolded and arrested for encouraging strike and causing financial losses, threatened with imprisonment if strike didn't end (menasolidaritynetwork.com)
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Your Money Is On the Table (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
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Howard Schultz violated labor law by telling employee ‘if you’re not happy at Starbucks, you can go work for another company’ (www.cnn.com)
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The Campaign to Unionize Amazon Gains Momentum (znetwork.org)
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Ports Shut Down from Maine to Texas as 45,000 Dockworkers Launch Strike over Pay & Automation (www.democracynow.org)
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October 01, 2024

Guest - Peter Goodman
NewYorkTimes global economics correspondent

[a surprisingly pro-worker viewpoint from a writer from the NYT -PL]

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The president could invoke a 1947 law to try to suspend the dockworkers' strike. Here's how (apnews.com)
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GE Appliance plant, 90% union in "right-to-work" state, approve strike by 98%. 60% have to work second job, health care plan too expensive for 30%, most don't make enough for one-bedroom in city (labornotes.org)
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500 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize as labor talks continue (www.cnbc.com)
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Maui: 98% of nurses union voters approve strike over workload, burn out, nurse-to-patient ratio (www.hawaiinewsnow.com)
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South African unions denounce government's bow to the IMF, neoliberal policies, privatisation, and austerity (saftu.org.za)
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Serbia: manager attacks three women with previous work-related injuries, throwing chair, one woman loses consciousness. Management claims surveillance cameras not operational. (www.industriall-union.org)
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