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Greece: government aims for 13 hours a day. "The countries that have the highest productivity, such as Denmark, Finland, and Germany, are the countries that have the shortest working hours" (www.msn.com)
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Philadelphia Municipal Workers Strike Before July 4 Celebrations (labornotes.org)
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Panama, among most unequal in Latin America, strikes against foreign and corporate encroachment. "Six weeks ago, people felt hopeful. Now we’re seeing arrests, police violence, and military pressure." (www.codepink.org)
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Neoliberals aimed to “make Chile a country of owners and not of proletarians,” in the words of dictator Augusto Pinochet. Rates of unionization among Chilean women surpassed those among men. (labourreview.org)
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Tyson management allegedly forcing injured employees to drop claims, threatening to terminate strikers - We’re tired of seeing the elites have no compassion for the workers who make them rich (www.amarillo.com)
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Philadelphia's largest blue collar union, representing 9000 city employees, to strike. "We make poverty level wages. We need. Need. We don't want. We need more money" (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
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Teamsters File Wage Theft Complaint Against Costco (teamster.org)
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Teamsters Authorize Strike at Tyson (teamster.org)
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Teamsters Launch Nationwide Airgas Strike (teamster.org)
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The National Labor Relations Act is 90, Under Siege, and Showing its Age (www.counterpunch.org)
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Unrepresentative polls, restricted participation, limited speaking time ignore poverty among elderly - "giving in to pressure from employers is jeopardising the balance of Luxembourg’s social model" (delano.lu)
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Union finally making inroads into Italian sweatshops, where management with links to organized crime exploits employees with precarious immigration status (www.politico.eu)
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Amazon management ignores summons to European Parliament. “If an Amazon worker would have behaved this way towards Amazon management, they would have already been fired three times over.” (uniglobalunion.org)
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Colombian legislature's blocking of pro-labor law ends after president moves towards submitting it to referendum. Law passes (colombiareports.com)
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Colorado Safeway votes 100% to strike. Safeway management accused of collusion with competition to not hire each other's striking employees (www.fortmorgantimes.com)
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"four hours of real rest—if we’re lucky. Two hours to get home, two hours to return—what’s left for sleep, recovery, or time with our families?" Casino management fails to break union election. (uniglobalunion.org)
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Court blocked Alberton's and Kroger merger, but they are allegedly colluding as far as where each other is with bargaining and where the floor and the ceiling is (www.kob.com)
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Teamsters at Airgas Prepare to Strike (teamster.org)
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Panama: teachers strike for pension, supported by banana workers and indigenous communities. Government responds with tear gas, beatings, arbitrary arrests (www.ei-ie.org)
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Ubisoft Halifax: majority of 60-person team signs union cards, files to unionize producers, programmers, designers, artists, researchers, and testers (uniglobalunion.org)
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Australia: hundreds take to streets after High Court allows government takeover of union - The decision is final. I have advised members that any action is likely to be unlawful (www.msn.com)
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New Zealand: new law "could have been written by Uber’s lawyers" - We have members who wear a company uniform, drive a branded van, and answer to a manager – but miss out on basic rights (etu.nz)
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Veteran Affairs: medical staff can be barred based on political party or union activity, staff may now discriminate against patients based on party affiliation and membership in labor organization (www.theguardian.com)
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Safeway strike after 99% authorization: I wish that Safeway/Albertsons had taken negotiations more seriously, obeyed the law, and respected the workers, but wishing doesn’t make it so (www.9news.com)
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Union leaders quit DNC (breaddaily.substack.com)
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