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Hochul signs law Freedom Foundation calls an attack on free speech

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is being accused of…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Education #firstamendment #KathyHochul #Laborunions #NewYork #NewYorkCity #socialism #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/732637/

"More than 200 staffers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the encyclopedia Wikipedia, have voted 158-14 to join the Communications Workers of America labor union. The US National Labor Relations Board counted ballots on Thursday.

Three Wikimedia employees tell WIRED they will now have a mechanism to challenge management as the organization faces growing competition from AI chatbots and a drop in volunteer editors. The 25-year-old, San Francisco-based foundation employs nearly 700 people across 39 countries, most of them working remotely. The contingent joining the union includes employees in functions such as software engineering, finance, and communications.

Lauren de Lench, who has been a lead technical program manager at the Wikimedia Foundation since 2021, says she voted to unionize because she had seen too many colleagues decline to speak up during internal meetings out of fear of retaliation for raising issues or proposing far-out ideas."

https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-workers-vote-on-whether-to-unionize/

#Wikipedia #Unions #LaborUnions #LaborMovement #Wikmedia

Beshear Rejects the Democratic Civil War: Make Room for DSA and Working-Class Politics

DSA victories are forcing a Democratic reckoning. Andy Beshear offers the smarter answer: welcome the left, debate policy, and unite around the economic pain families face.

AFL-CIO #union federation in #USA opposes #US military aggression against #Venezuela

from Instagram
Jan. 3, 2026

#HandsOffVenezuela #ReleaseMaduroNow
#VenezuelanOilBelongsToVenezuela
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean #NicolásMaduro
#news #politics #USpol #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #TradeUnions
@unions

Latest news on Starbucks strike in #USA
[from email sent to supporters on Nov. 20, 2025]

https://mailchi.mp/8cf687a615fc/is-starbucks-chocolate-a-dirty-trick-or-a-clean-treat-14249299?e=ba3d82e1e1

Yesterday, we escalated our #UnfairLaborPractice #strike by heading straight to York, Pennsylvania, home to #Starbucks’ biggest East Coast distribution center with a message: If Starbucks won’t meet us at the table, we’ll meet them at their supply chain. We'll keep escalating, or we'll bring the picket line to them.

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #TradeUnions #US
#news #politics #USpol #ULP
@usa

Iranian Oil Workers Launch Historic Strike
Fifteen thousand workers went on strike at a major gas field in Iran at the economically critical South Pars field.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-oil-field-workers-strike

from #DropSiteNews
Murtaza Hussain
Nov 10, 2025

Fifteen thousand workers went on strike at a major gas field in #Iran last week, demanding improved wages and working conditions at the economically critical South Pars field. Earlier this month, the Association of Gas Industry #Workers’ #Unions of Bushehr Province—the largest #labor organization representing the workers of Iran’s #gas refineries at South Pars—announced a weekly work stoppage over longstanding grievances at the site.

A letter announcing the strike laid out several key demands that the workers had put to Iranian authorities related to inequitable pay, difficult working conditions, and inadequate leave time for workers at the site.

#WorkersRights #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #TradeUnions
#news #politics #MiddleEast #WestAsia

From the Bretton Woods Project: #HumanRights (cont'd):

"Labour #unions, for instance, have long opposed the #BWIs’ systematic weakening of labour rights either directly through conditionality or indirectly through policy advice in flagship reports and surveillance, such as the IMF’s 2017 loan programme to Greece (see Observer Autumn 2017), or the World Bank’s 2018 World Development Report (see Observer Winter 2018), respectively. Other economic and social rights, such as the right to social security, health and education, as well as the broader right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, clothing and housing, are all undermined by the BWIs’ promotion of excessively constrained fiscal policies and aggressive privatisation that preclude states from delivering core public services and meeting their international human rights obligations.

"A related and intersectional thread of human rights critiques focuses on how these policies supported, proposed or required by the BWIs are designed unevenly in favour of those already at the top of the economy and society, further exacerbating inequalities within and between countries and disproportionately harming the marginalised, who already are most vulnerable to human rights violations.

"Groups that are often disproportionately and cumulatively disadvantaged by the types of macroeconomic policies the BWIs promote include the poor, women, immigrants, the elderly, children and youth, ethnic and religious minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQI communities."

#ReligiousMinorities #EthnicMinorities #ChildLabor #LGBTQI #Exploitation #HumanRights #CorporateColonialism #IMFLoanSharks #WorldBank #LaborUnions

Rosado-Marzán’s essay, “Fair Transition Funds, Employer Neutrality, and Card Checks: How Industrial #Policy Could Relaunch #LaborUnions in the United States,” explores lessons learned in #PuertoRico and #Sweden. It suggests how contemporary U.S. industrial policy could sustain “new #WorkerOrganizing and build power from the bottom up.”

https://newsismybusiness.com/essay-lessons-from-puerto-rico-sweden-could-shape-us-labor-strategy/

Rosado-Marzán’s essay, “Fair Transition Funds, Employer Neutrality, and Card Checks: How Industrial #Policy Could Relaunch #LaborUnions in the United States,” explores lessons learned in #PuertoRico and #Sweden. It suggests how contemporary U.S. industrial policy could sustain “new #WorkerOrganizing and build power from the bottom up.”

https://newsismybusiness.com/essay-lessons-from-puerto-rico-sweden-could-shape-us-labor-strategy/

Rosado-Marzán’s essay, “Fair Transition Funds, Employer Neutrality, and Card Checks: How Industrial #Policy Could Relaunch #LaborUnions in the United States,” explores lessons learned in #PuertoRico and #Sweden. It suggests how contemporary U.S. industrial policy could sustain “new #WorkerOrganizing and build power from the bottom up.”

https://newsismybusiness.com/essay-lessons-from-puerto-rico-sweden-could-shape-us-labor-strategy/

Rosado-Marzán’s essay, “Fair Transition Funds, Employer Neutrality, and Card Checks: How Industrial #Policy Could Relaunch #LaborUnions in the United States,” explores lessons learned in #PuertoRico and #Sweden. It suggests how contemporary U.S. industrial policy could sustain “new #WorkerOrganizing and build power from the bottom up.”

https://newsismybusiness.com/essay-lessons-from-puerto-rico-sweden-could-shape-us-labor-strategy/

Heard on: Striking Starbucks workers chant outside of a Starbucks coffee shop during a national strike. Several. Above ...

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the number of workers who went on strike increased almost 50% last year, compared to 2021.
Why so many workers are going on strike these days - Marketplace

Heard on: Striking Starbucks workers chant outside of a Starbucks coffee shop during a national strike. Several. Above ...

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the number of workers who went on strike increased almost 50% last year, compared to 2021.
Why so many workers are going on strike these days - Marketplace