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Death of an Indian tech worker

A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

by Parth MN
Rest of World
January 27, 2026

https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker

A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

by Parth MN
Rest of World
January 27, 2026

https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker

A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

by Parth MN
Rest of World
January 27, 2026

https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker

A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

by Parth MN
Rest of World
January 27, 2026

https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker

A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

by Parth MN
Rest of World
January 27, 2026

https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Why Canada needs better data on strikes, unions and other labour issues
#Canada #LabourRelations #Unions #Strikes #Business #WorkplaceConflict #PublicPolicy #StatisticsCanada #Labour #LabourData #TradeUnions #WorkersRights #Unionization #LabourUnions
https://the-14.com/why-canada-needs-better-data-on-strikes-unions-and-other-labour-issues/

Why Canada needs better data on strikes, unions and other labour issues
#Canada #LabourRelations #Unions #Strikes #Business #WorkplaceConflict #PublicPolicy #StatisticsCanada #Labour #LabourData #TradeUnions #WorkersRights #Unionization #LabourUnions
https://the-14.com/why-canada-needs-better-data-on-strikes-unions-and-other-labour-issues/

6🧵 (extra, related)

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.
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#USA #US #USpol #unionization #CollectiveBargaining #FederalGovernment #USFederalGovernment #FederalWorkforce #CivilServants
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https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/115307527544880390

Thanks to @anaulin and @internetross for co-facilitating a conversation with the internal folks who facilitated the #unionization efforts at Exygy, a #Software #Consultancy.

We may publish some notes on the zinc.coop website; but my take-aways were:

- One on Ones are S-Tier Skill
- Work with the CWA! They know their shit!
- Take the time to build the Super Majority!
- Stay Positive
- Develop your understanding of Solidarity (Rec for #OnSolidarity by #HaymarketBooks - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2252-on-solidarity)

If you have recommendations for further conversations re: Organizing and Mobilizing towards Justice in Software Organizations, please send them my way!

#Union #Consulting #Cooperatives #ZincCoop

Society of American Archivists' Committee on Public Policy (COPP) and Issues & Advocacy (I&A) Section will host a virtual joint business meeting/annual program on 7/24, 11am–12:30pm (CT)

The meeting will begin with a business session, followed by a workshop on organizing and building power with coworkers facilitated by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

Register: https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=826825e6-8f75-4af8-89ef-018f30f11b1b&Home=%2fevents%2fcalendar

#SAA #EWOC #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #Unionization #EmergencyWorkplaceOrganizingCommittee

#Malaysia has become a hotspot for global #electronics & #semiconductor investment, with country's electrical & electronics export seeing a sharp increase of 54.2%. However, the surge of electronics & semiconductor investment in Malaysia is sharply contrasted with low #unionization; only 6% of all #Malaysian #workers are #unionized, the majority in the public sector.

https://www.industriall-union.org/malaysias-booming-electronics-industry-leaves-little-room-for-workers-rights

#AsianMastodon #WorkersRights #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #GlobalSouth

Normalize Unionizing Fast Food Restaurants!!

This is the best part of this story: “Andrews said the employees were looking for help communicating with new management, who workers said is consistently ignoring any concerns they bring forward.”

When people know why unions exist (to help speak for employees!) they seek them out!

#Unionization #AW #BC #Unions #Labour #MinimumWage #WorkersRights
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/kamloops-aw-workers-unionize-a-first-in-canada-organizers-7110663

Striking UAW workers win key battery plant concession from General Motors - Enlarge / UAW members and workers at the Mopar Parts Center Line, a Ste... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1974393 #unionization #uawstrike #cars

Faced with a labor market rife with adversity, a circle of nannies in New York City have done something extraordinary, overturning economists’ assumptions about “self-interested” markets.
Operating in the shadows, these workers have created microeconomies of their own, where they are able to share resources, and protect their jobs and pay.
Transcending basic notions of mutual aid, the operations of this underground network allow this group of nannies to send lifelines to one another.
Their informal economies offer lessons in #redistribution, the value of #unionization and the power of #comradery

https://truthout.org/articles/nyc-nannies-built-an-underground-care-economy-that-should-inspire-us-policy/

More of this!

More of this!

Over 100 Developers of Just Cause, Contraband at Avalanche Studios Have Unionized - IGN https://www.ign.com/articles/over-100-developers-of-just-cause-contraband-at-avalanche-studios-have-unionized

#Developers #JustCause #Contraband #AvalanceStudios #Unionization #GamingNews

Outsourcing is just the worst!

Third UK Apple Store has unionized, says customers also harmed https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/05/third-uk-apple-store-has-unionized/

#UK #Apple #AppleStore #Unionization #GeniusBar #Outsourcing #TechNews

The #restaurant #industry has long coordinated efforts to suppress labor costs through the #NRA, a multimillion-dollar #lobbying machine funded both by its restaurant members and by the fees #workers pay for required food-safety classes, according to a recent New York Times report.

The group has spent its #war chest on lobbying campaigns to preserve a subminimum #wage for tipped workers — who are disproportionately young, women, and people of color, and far more likely to live in #poverty than regular minimum wage workers — and to help block state and federal sick leave proposals and minimum wage increases.

But now, restaurant executives are on edge. #Union campaigns are suddenly penetrating their industry, which employs about 10 percent of the American #workforce and has one of the lowest #unionization rates of any sector. Over the past few years, baristas have #unionized nearly 280 Starbucks stores in the face of enormous odds, and dozens of other coffee #shops and restaurants have followed suit.

“The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, every newspaper reports on every union win… when an unfair labor practice charge is filed, when there are challenges to elections,” said Felice Ekelman, a principal at Jackson Lewis, one of the oldest and most infamous union avoidance law firms in the country. “When did this become first page #news?”

“And guess who’s reading it?” replied Laura Pierson-Scheinberg, one of Ekelman’s Jackson Lewis colleagues, as the two sat across from each other on the main stage of the summit. “My kids. Literally. I have an 18-year-old, my kids are into it.”

The two lawyers were discussing a new threat for the restaurant industry: the unexpected rise of union campaigns in workplaces that, for decades, have largely been immune from such organizing efforts.

“Before, I used to say… ‘[Unionization] isn’t a problem for you in the restaurant industry,’” said Pierson-Scheinberg. But now, she warned, “Kids do not care about paying union dues. Two percent of pay, are you kidding me? Their Netflix costs more. They think it’s a hell of a deal.”

The “kids,” she added, are #organizing #workplaces which would have previously seemed unreachable.

https://www.levernews.com/fear-and-loathing-among-the-union-busters/

Workers Are About To Get Way More Power. Here's How.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dot6WXrKtyc&ab_channel=MorePerfectUnion

The National Labor Relations Board could soon make it much easier for workers to unionize. The board plans to re-establish the Joy Silk Doctrine, which would force employers to recognize and bargain with their employees' union if a majority of workers sign authorization cards.

This would turn the tables in favor of workers and eliminate a key union-busting tactic employers use to stifle organizing. By enabling workers to unionize via card check and preventing employers from dragging out the process into a time-intensive union election, the decision would make it vastly easier for workers to win a union.

#NLRB #billionaires #unionbusting #JoySilk #authorizationcards #easier #unionization

#Employee #NonCompete Agreements Are Illegal, #NLRB Lawyer Says
The general counsel of the #NationalLaborRelationsBoard says that non-compete provisions are “overbroad” and violate workers’ rights, specifically because of how they impact #unionization. https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zbjx/employee-non-compete-agreements-are-illegal-nlrb-lawyer-says