#tradeunionism — Public Fediverse posts
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IFJ Centenary World Congress kicks off in Paris
The 32nd World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) will open on 4 May in Paris,…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Paris #centenary #Congress #DominiquePradalie #federation #FIJ #FIP #IFJ #IFJ100 #journalism #journalist #Journalists #president #pressfreedom #solidarity #tradeunionism #union #unions
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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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"Preston, vote for your board of directors"
REI, a fucking *co-op*, is engaged in union busting. The union wants us to vote down (vote to "withhold") all three of the candidates put up for the board. See screenshots for what the email and process looks like to do so.
More context from the union: https://www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elections
#rei #REIUnion #coop #TradeUnionism #unions #TradeUnions #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #Labour #labor #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #hiking #biking #outdoors
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Visiting the Monterey Bay aquarium was the highlight of my vacation to California several years ago. I support the unionization efforts of its employees to ensure that many more visitors have the chance to say the same.
Offer your own words of support here:
https://mbaworkersunited.org/community-letter-support?utm_source=mastodon
#politics #unions #union #unionization #TradeUnion #TradeUnions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #MontereyBayAquarium #MontereyBay #California #LaborRights #UnionStrong #unionize
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CW: uspol, tech
From the New York Times:
>Will there be a Needle?
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>If you are reading this, you’re probably familiar with the Needle, a statistical model and visual display that analyzes both what we know about reported results and what’s left to count, and offers a sense of what might be coming.
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>We’re planning to publish the Needle tonight. But the Needle relies on data from an array of local jurisdictions, **as well as computer systems maintained by engineers across the company who are currently on strike**. So, we’ll publish when we know the data is flowing smoothly and our technical systems are stable.
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>And whether the Needle is live on the home screen or not, Times journalists will be looking at the data we collect and using the statistical model to publish frequent updates about what we learn.Yeah. Those systems are gonna melt the fuck down.
#uspol #nyt #nytimes #NewYorkTimes #TheNewYorkTimes #union #unions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions
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https://archive.org/details/radical-nationalism-in-cameroun
Radical Nationalism in Cameroun: Social Origins of the U.P.C. Rebellion by Richard A. Joseph
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#UniondespopulationsduCameroun, #UPC, #Cameroun, #Kamerun, #Cameroon, #RadicalNationalism, #RevolutionaryNationalism, #AntiColonialism, #GermanColonialism, #BritishColonialism, #FrenchColonialism, #AntiImperialism, #Politicalindependence, #TradeUnionism, #GuerillaWarfare, #Organisation, #SocialMovements"The Union des Populations du Cameroun is a particularly interesting subject for a case study in African politics because it went against the dominant pattern of nationalist policies in French sub-Saharan Africa. It demanded the independence of Cameroun from Greater France; it called for reunification with the neighbouring colony of the British Cameroons; it viewed colonialism as based on capitalist exploitation and did not hesitate to say so, and it persisted in this radical challenge despite intense administrative and, later, military repression.
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https://archive.org/details/jamaica_essays
Essays on Power and Change in Jamaica by Carl Stone; Aggrey Brown; Peter Phillips; Stanley Reid; Don Robotham; Rupert Lewis; Claremont Kirton; Ralph Gonsalves; Donald J. Harris
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#Jamaica, #Caribbean, #history, #economics, #socialsciences, #imperialism, #britishcolonialism, #unions, #tradeunionism, #bauxite, #agriculture, #neocolonialism, #massmedia, #nationalism, #Blacknationalism, #antiblacknessJamaica Publishing House
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The bad news about workers' rights - and what we can do about it
#ITUC Global Rights Index 2019
