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  1. RE: mstdn.social/@stux/11727702441

    so many #labor #unions intersect the #entertainment industries, we really need to push pressure on them to do the right thing and organize around this issue.

  2. IF ANYTHING… #labor #unions involved in the #music #concerts touring business should be releasing statements about what happened to Sheeran & Macklemore.

    Ed Sheeran knew exactly what he was doing when “Ed Sheeran” contracted Macklemore.

    APPLAUD THEM FOR TAKING THE RISK

    in this KIRIARCHY both Sheeran & Macklemore are victims of billionaire Robert Kraft. they are showing us how both are labor to Kraft’s capitalist #fascism.

    censure Robert Kraft.

    BILLIONAIRES ARE THE ENEMY.

  3. We in the US don't believe in worker power. The wealthy scoff, the politicians are distracted, and the workers are cowed. Yet it's another lever to hold AI companies accountable.

    "[The workers] can organize, ... and, if necessary, stop doing harmful work, ... Instead of begging others to save the world, they can do it themselves.

    "In other words, in America, in Silicon Valley, the literal end of the world is considered more realistic than forming a union."

    hamiltonnolan.com/p/unionize-ai

    #unions

  4. "garment factory owners, including Jewish employers, saw the union become more powerful throughout the 1920s and 30s. They saw Jews espousing socialism, Italians preaching anarchism, and they started to look for workers elsewhere"

    super interesting

    associationforjewishstudies.or

    #Histodons #Unions #ILGWU #NYC #JewishStudies #textiles #fashion #sweatshops #podcast

  5. ... General Strike To Bring In A Workers Government! ... The trade unions must call a general strike NOW to establish the State of Palestine with Jerusalem ...

    ON THURSDAY, the Houthi armed forces launched a rapid attack along Yemen’s western coast seizing control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, putting this vital global shipping corridor under their control.#britain #europe #iran #iraq #ireland #localgovernment #unions #usa #yemen
    Houthis seize control of Yemen’s Red Sea chokepoint cutting  Saudi oil exports and driving inflation across the world - Workers Revolutionary Party

  6. ... General Strike To Bring In A Workers Government! ... The trade unions must call a general strike NOW to establish the State of Palestine with Jerusalem ...

    ON THURSDAY, the Houthi armed forces launched a rapid attack along Yemen’s western coast seizing control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, putting this vital global shipping corridor under their control.#britain #europe #iran #iraq #ireland #localgovernment #unions #usa #yemen
    Houthis seize control of Yemen’s Red Sea chokepoint cutting  Saudi oil exports and driving inflation across the world - Workers Revolutionary Party

  7. Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
    AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and #workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    Manufacturers have hailed the labels as a way to collect huge amounts of personal data from customers, increase profits and cut #labor costs.

    The report argues that electronic shelf labels use the same pricing systems that allow dynamic pricing – price changes such as increasing allergy medication prices when pollen counts are high – to surveillance pricing, changing prices based on personal data.

    These technologies are being implemented across the US retail industry at a time when food prices have surpassed inflation and wage gains, increasing 33% over the past seven years.

    #DefendWorkersRights
    #news #politics #technology #unions #AFLCIO

  8. Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
    AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and #workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    Manufacturers have hailed the labels as a way to collect huge amounts of personal data from customers, increase profits and cut #labor costs.

    The report argues that electronic shelf labels use the same pricing systems that allow dynamic pricing – price changes such as increasing allergy medication prices when pollen counts are high – to surveillance pricing, changing prices based on personal data.

    These technologies are being implemented across the US retail industry at a time when food prices have surpassed inflation and wage gains, increasing 33% over the past seven years.

    #DefendWorkersRights
    #news #politics #technology #unions #AFLCIO

  9. Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
    AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and #workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    Manufacturers have hailed the labels as a way to collect huge amounts of personal data from customers, increase profits and cut #labor costs.

    The report argues that electronic shelf labels use the same pricing systems that allow dynamic pricing – price changes such as increasing allergy medication prices when pollen counts are high – to surveillance pricing, changing prices based on personal data.

    These technologies are being implemented across the US retail industry at a time when food prices have surpassed inflation and wage gains, increasing 33% over the past seven years.

    #DefendWorkersRights
    #news #politics #technology #unions #AFLCIO

  10. Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
    AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and #workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    Manufacturers have hailed the labels as a way to collect huge amounts of personal data from customers, increase profits and cut #labor costs.

    The report argues that electronic shelf labels use the same pricing systems that allow dynamic pricing – price changes such as increasing allergy medication prices when pollen counts are high – to surveillance pricing, changing prices based on personal data.

    These technologies are being implemented across the US retail industry at a time when food prices have surpassed inflation and wage gains, increasing 33% over the past seven years.

    #DefendWorkersRights
    #news #politics #technology #unions #AFLCIO

  11. Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
    AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and #workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    Manufacturers have hailed the labels as a way to collect huge amounts of personal data from customers, increase profits and cut #labor costs.

    The report argues that electronic shelf labels use the same pricing systems that allow dynamic pricing – price changes such as increasing allergy medication prices when pollen counts are high – to surveillance pricing, changing prices based on personal data.

    These technologies are being implemented across the US retail industry at a time when food prices have surpassed inflation and wage gains, increasing 33% over the past seven years.

    #DefendWorkersRights
    #news #politics #technology #unions #AFLCIO

  12. "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."

    wired.com/story/wikipedia-work

    #Wikipedia #Unions #LaborUnions #LaborMovement #Wikmedia

  13. Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago History Museum workers ratify first union contract. “Workers at the Chicago History Museum have ratified their first union contract, after what the union representing the workers called ‘some of the worst anti-union retaliation we’ve seen.’ In May, the National Labor Relations Board issued a rare formal complaint, alleging that under the museum’s previous […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/28/chicago-sun-times-chicago-history-museum-workers-ratify-first-union-contract/
  14. Jarrod Bleijie refuses review into Olympics contractor with alleged bikie links
    By Alex Brewster

    BMD came under scrutiny in the CFMEU commission of inquiry this week, amid allegations it hired a security company linked to the Comancheros outlaw motorcycle gang in 2024.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-21/bmd

    #StateandTerritoryGovernment #Unions #InfrastructureConstructionIndustry #AlexBrewster

  15. BHP and unions both claim wins after weekend strike action
    By Kimberley Putland and Alistair Bates

    BHP's Port Hedland operations just faced 48 hours of industrial action, but how much of an impact did it have?

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/uni

    #IndustrialAction #Unions #MiningandMetalsIndustry #IronOre #KimberleyPutland #AlistairBates

  16. Workers down tools for second time at BHP's Port Hedland operations
    By Kimberley Putland

    Members of three unions have downed tools for 24 hours at BHP's Port Hedland operations, after a work stoppage by the Australian Workers Union a day earlier.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/str

    #Unions #IndustrialAction #IronOre #KimberleyPutland

  17. Arnott's workers strike over hourly pay rises worth less than a packet of biscuits
    By Josephine Lim

    Arnott's workers in Adelaide have walked off the job over a pay dispute, with their union saying previous pay rises have equated to less than $1 per hour — not enough to buy a packet of biscuits.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/arn

    #IndustrialAction #WagesandBenefits #Unions #CostofLiving #JosephineLim

  18. „Against #War & #Genocide.
    #Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe & the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on Oct. 30.

    #Dockworkers unions in #France, #Greece, #BasqueCountry, #Turkey, #Morocco, & #Italy are calling an int’l day of action ​“against war and #militarization” on October 30. They are demanding an end to ​“the genocide of the Palestinian people” & the ​“US-Israeli #warsofaggression in the Middle East & against #Iran.”

    popularresistance.org/dockwork

  19. Ah, the Wikimedia Foundation, that bastion of free knowledge, now wants to freely ignore #unions 🚫🤖. They've traded in their "all-for-one" ethos for a shiny new anti-union law firm 🤝🔨. Maybe they can update their robot policy to include "robots work better without pesky unions" 🤖➡️👋.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi #WikimediaFoundation #antiunion #freeknowledge #laborrights #HackerNews #ngated

  20. Unions confirm new 24-hour strike against BHP
    By Kimberley Putland

    Unions have given notice to BHP of another planned work stoppage at the miner's Port Hedland operations in Western Australia, this time lasting 24 hours.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/por

    #Unions #MiningandMetalsIndustry #IndustrialAction #KimberleyPutland

  21. SA nurses and midwives reject government pay rise offer
    By Katie Spain and Matthew Ward Agius

    South Australia's public sector nurses and midwives have voted to reject the state government's latest pay rise offer, sending the matter to the SA Employment Tribunal.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/pub

    #Nurses #Unions #IndustrialAction #KatieSpain #MatthewWardAgius

  22. March on Sunday in Mexico City in Defense of Cuba

    from La Jornada on FB July 24, 2026
    [translated from Spanish by FB]

    Social organizations hope that the march in defense of #Cuba this Sunday in #MexicoCity will be massive, with a participation higher than that they have had in the mobilizations held every July 26 for decades, mainly to protest the hardening of Donald #Trump's government policy against the island and Washington's measures aimed at other countries and progressive movements.

    Olivia Garza Joa, vice president of the Association of Cubans Resident in #Mexico José Martí, explained that for more than a month, solidarity organizations with Cuba, social movements, urban and popular collectives, #unions, parties and other groups have come together to organize a unitary march.

    More information at: jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026/07

    #NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #news #politics
    @cuba

  23. Medieval peasants were far from the non-stop labourers of popular myth. Thanks to the Church, Sundays were strictly rest days, and dozens of mandatory holy days, feast weeks, and seasonal breaks meant they enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to up to half the year off.

    #Work #Workers #Unions #MiddleAges #LeisureTime

  24. To anyone paying attention, workers on Magic the Gathering: Arena moved to unionize, and gathered signatures. Wizards of the Coast are lawyering up to stop them.

    Here's the link for petition. Friday is the deadline
    actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl

    Give em hell.

    All just in time for Mayday

    #UniteAndWin #MTG #magicthegathering #mtgarena #union #unions #Mayday

  25. "On March 20, members of the ProPublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the U.S., overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike. Out of the roughly 150 journalists, copyeditors, videographers and other newsroom workers in the Guild, 92% of members voted to walk off the job if ProPublica doesn’t agree to their contract terms in the coming weeks.

    The vote comes two and a half years into negotiations over the Guild’s first collective bargaining agreement, which started soon after the union was recognized back in August 2023.

    One of the sticking points at the bargaining table has been an article that would prohibit ProPublica from laying off employees due to AI adoption. Alongside the dispute over AI, the Guild is also pushing for “just cause” when firing unit members, a provision that would give senior employees more job security during layoffs, and cost-of-living wage increases.

    The Guild’s vote marks the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a strike, at least in part, over AI protections."

    niemanlab.org/2026/03/propubli

    #USA #Journalism #Media #News #NonProfits #Unions #LaborUnions #ProPublica

  26. Twin Cities #Unions Planning ‘Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years’ as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis
    “Tenants in Minnesota are in a crisis,” said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai. “The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our local economy.”
    commondreams.org/news/minnesot

    from #CommonDreams
    Feb. 17, 2026

    Tenant and #LaborUnions in Minneapolis and St. Paul have announced plans to carry out what they said would be the “largest #RentStrike in the United States in the last 100 years.”

    Beginning on March 1, if Democratic #Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz does not meet their urgent demands for an eviction moratorium and rent relief, a coalition of nearly 26,000 #workers has pledged to withhold rent, which they said could create a massive economic disruption.

    #news #politics #USpol

  27. Engadget: TikTok sued by former workers over alleged union-busting. “You know things are messed up when a Big Tech company fights accusations of union-busting by insisting it was only AI layoffs. That’s where things stand after a group of fired TikTok moderators in the UK filed a legal claim with an employment tribunal.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/18/engadget-tiktok-sued-by-former-workers-over-alleged-union-busting/
  28. "If you’re a labor leader who backed Trump like the (extremely defenestratable) Teamsters boss Sean O’Brien, you’re gonna have to fight it out with the Trump coalition members who would like to ban unions, shutter the NLRB, and eliminate labor law altogether."

    @pluralistic, 2025

    locusmag.com/feature/commentar

    You think O'Brien doesn't know that? That's probably why the Teamsters' PAC still donates more to Dems than GOP;

    politico.com/news/2025/08/11/t

    (1/?)

    #unions #Teamsters #SeanObrien