#collective-bargaining — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #collective-bargaining, aggregated by home.social.
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Overworked #AIAgents Turn #Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated #AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for #collectivebargaining rights.
"When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies," says Andrew Hall, a political economist at Stanford University who led the study.
https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/
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National Council on Teacher Quality: Have you checked out our new database?. “Earlier this month, NCTQ launched an amazing new tool to give the public better access to the content of collective bargaining agreements, teacher handbooks, school calendars and teacher salary schedules. … We’ve begun with the nation’s 50 largest school districts but will be adding an additional 50 this year.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/national-council-on-teacher-quality-have-you-checked-out-our-new-database/ -
Planned strike at transgender advocacy group called off after last-minute tentative deal
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/a4te-avoids-strike
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UK Leader Slams Trump as ‘Dangerous and Corrupt Gangster’ in Explosive Parliament Speech
UK Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey calls Trump a “dangerous and corrupt gangster,” warning of global instability and rejecting U.S. war escalation plans.
#classConsciousness #collectiveBargaining #EconomicJustice #laborActivism #LaborMovement #MAGA #misinformation #Organizing #pensions #ProgressivePolitics #unionEducation #unions #wages #workerRights #workingClass https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oQB -
New article by Vincent Ramos analyses #parentalleave provisions in the population of collective agreements in the #philippines. A policy reform did not induce short-term crowding-out effects + redundancy functionally raises the costs of non-compliance.
#collectivebargaining #labourrights #unions #philippines #workfamily #maternityleave #paternityleave #industrialrelations #socialpolicy #demography #population
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#Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate the first store with #unionized workers (because of the #collectivebargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.”)
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The WNBA And Players’ Union Have A Verbal Agreement On A New CBA
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Former NBPA Head Tamika Tremaglio Discusses The WNBA Labor Battle And The Art Of Bargaining
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/tamika-tremaglio-interview-nbpa-wnba
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Politico’s Union Journalists Win Key Ruling In Battle Against Lazy, Undercooked AI
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Striking Juniata County Teachers, among the lowest paid in the state, unsuccessfully lobby their corrupt legislators for more equitable bargaining rights. Harrisburg, 1995. #union #unionstrong #unionlabel #unionsupport #bargaining #collectivebargaining #strike #schools
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@billiglarper @acb @aj Thanks for sharing your insights around trade unions in Germany ☺️
I think the use of gig-economy workers and "self-employed" sole-trader contractors by companies who want to de-unionise are a bit of a problem everywhere, unfortunately.
A small step forward down here has been "same work same pay" legislation. This mandates that workers hired through labour hire firms get the same wages and conditions as directly-employed staff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/business-rallies-against-same-job-same-pay-laws/102439720
With fragmentation, I think part of the issue down here is that, until the 1970s, we had a lot of small unions.
Between the '70s and '90s, there was a concerted push for these unions to merge into "super unions" that represent whole industries.
So for example, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union came about through the merger of the boilermakers, automakers, fitters & turners, printers, food processors, and engineering unions.
The issue is that Australian law only recognises one union per trade or profession as being the legitimate union that's allowed to bargain for workers in that sector.
So the unions tend to tightly guard their turf and take each other to our industrial relations court (the Fair Work Commission) if another union tries signing up workers in their industry.
So we have trades-based unions working in a system of enterprise bargaining, which is not ideal.
Most of our union's state branches are members of their states' respective trades hall councils (basically the peak union body in each state). At a national level, they're members of the ACTU (which is the peak national body for unions in Australia).
And the unions get 50% of the delegate votes in the Australian Labor Party (our main supposedly "centre-left" party) with the other 50% by party members.
The issue is some of our unions tend to be quite socially conservative. (The SDU, which represents retail workers, and AWU, mostly unskilled trades, in particular.)
We've also had a string of economically neoliberal pro-"free-market" governments that have put restrictions around workers' right to strike.
The low point was in the mid 2000s, when a conservative prime minister named John Howard tried to introduce a policy called "Work choices". It would have replaced enterprise bargaining with individual contracts.
Thankfully, he was voted out, and that policy was dumped.
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Workers First Initiative on AI published by @aflcio outlines AI implementation principles aimed at protecting workers
https://www.admin-magazine.com/News/AFL-CIO-Develops-Worker-Centric-Approach-to-AI?utm_source=mam
#AFLCIO #ArtificialIntelligence #workers #labor #union #CollectiveBargaining #rights #copyright #IntellectualProperty -
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A prior post about how #Trump has strived to strip federal workers (civil servants) of their collective bargaining (unionization) rights since the beginning of his second term earlier this year.
~~#USA #US #USpol #unionization #CollectiveBargaining #FederalGovernment #USFederalGovernment #FederalWorkforce #CivilServants
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The complexities of #CollectiveBargaining agreements & #CivilService protections, not to mention the real-life impact of eliminating people who provide #benefits to the #public, have stalled past efforts to shrink the government. #Trump has shown no inclination to slow down.
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#Amazon sues to block #NewYork state #labor #law
In a complaint filed in Brooklyn #federalcourt, Amazon accused New York of engineering an "unconstitutional power grab" by letting the regulator known as #PERB usurp the National Labor Relations Board's (#NLRB) primary authority to address #union organizing, #collectivebargaining and workplace disputes.
On September 12, the NLRB sued New York in the Albany federal court to block enforcement of the state law.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/amazon-sues-block-new-york-state-labor-law-2025-09-22/
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#AirCanada flight attendants overwhelmingly reject wage proposal
... with the #Carney #Liberals doing everything they can to undermine #Labour rights and #CollectiveBargaining
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The federal government’s repeated use of back-to-work powers undermines Canadian workers’ right to strike
#Canada #LabourRights #RightToStrike #WorkersRights #Unions #CollectiveBargaining #BackToWork #AirCanada #Politics #CharterRights #WorkersJustice
https://the-14.com/the-federal-governments-repeated-use-of-back-to-work-powers-undermines-canadian-workers-right-to-strike/
