home.social

#unions — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #unions, aggregated by home.social.

  1. University of Queensland denies student union claims of attacks on independence
    By Ned Hammond

    The university says it has sought a transition plan over concerns the student union has failed to fulfil its governance requirements.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/uni

    #Universities #Unions #NedHammond

  2. Turns out the late shift going until 11 ends in three weeks. It ends 10:30 starting next month. (Which does make a difference that late in the day.)

    Because the Union fought for it.

    #work #unions #capitalism

  3. 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

  4. Coal workers back strike action at heart of WA's energy grid
    By Neve Brissenden

    Talks between Chinese-owned Premier Coal and workers have fallen through, leaving industrial action on the cards for WA's coal-mining heartland.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/col

    #Coal #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Unions #NeveBrissenden

  5. Labour contractor in custody as police probe allegations Queensland CFMEU officials bribed

    A Victorian company director is in custody as police probe allegations a labour hire contractor bribed current Queensland…
    #Australia #Brisbane #bowenhills #CFMEU #constructionforestryandmaritimeemployeesunion #constructionsector #police #QLD #qldpolice #QueenslandPolice #unions
    europesays.com/australia/91509/

  6. Opal readers turned off on Sydney Ferries amid industrial action
    By Declan Bowring

    Transport for NSW says the workers cannot turn off the readers under the notified industrial action, despite the maritime union's announcement.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/syd

    #PublicTransport #Unions #IndustrialRelations #MarineTransportIndustry #DeclanBowring

  7. Opal readers turned off on Sydney Ferries amid industrial action
    By Declan Bowring

    Transport for NSW says the workers cannot turn off the readers under the notified industrial action, despite the maritime union's announcement.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/syd

    #PublicTransport #Unions #IndustrialRelations #MarineTransportIndustry #DeclanBowring

  8. Opal readers turned off on Sydney Ferries amid industrial action
    By Declan Bowring

    Transport for NSW says the workers cannot turn off the readers under the notified industrial action, despite the maritime union's announcement.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/syd

    #PublicTransport #Unions #IndustrialRelations #MarineTransportIndustry #DeclanBowring

  9. Opal readers turned off on Sydney Ferries amid industrial action
    By Declan Bowring

    Transport for NSW says the workers cannot turn off the readers under the notified industrial action, despite the maritime union's announcement.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/syd

    #PublicTransport #Unions #IndustrialRelations #MarineTransportIndustry #DeclanBowring

  10. Opal readers turned off on Sydney Ferries amid industrial action
    By Declan Bowring

    Transport for NSW says the workers cannot turn off the readers under the notified industrial action, despite the maritime union's announcement.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/syd

    #PublicTransport #Unions #IndustrialRelations #MarineTransportIndustry #DeclanBowring

  11. CFMEU 'aware of investigation' as police attend Brisbane HQ

    The construction union says it will "cooperate fully" with an investigation, after police attended its Queensland headquarters.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/qld

    #Police #Unions

  12. Industrial disputes & news - 9 September 2026

    Arts Centre Melbourne; Sydney Ferries; Victorian doctors; RiverCity Ferries; Downer; Scope; Quantem; DOF; Secure Journeys; Melbourne metro councils; Fire Rescue Victoria; Lumus Imaging; NPT
    (Thanks Sarah Missen )

    disputesreport.substack.com/p/?

    #labourmovement #solidarity #strikes #unions

  13. Celebrating and protesting on Labor Day: Among the marchers in the #Boston parade were striking Encore workers
    universalhub.com/2026/celebrat

    Photo by Ron Newman.
    #LaborDay #unions #BackBay #Copley Square

  14. "In my research, I was impressed to see federal commissions convened at the turn of the century to study the impact of new technologies on work and the economy. If only our current government were capable of such sane and sober study and analysis of AI’s entry into the workplace and culture; we need it.

    There seems to be a lesson in the ITU’s actions: Rather than fighting and trying to forestall the inevitable arrival of new technology, it is better to take control of it. That worked well for the ITU for three-quarters of a century as it lobbied successfully for the eight-hour work day and drastically improved the working conditions — and health — of its members. The ITU — and particularly New York’s Big Six — became immensely powerful.

    Until they weren’t. In the 1960s and ’70s, new technologies threatened: punched paper tape that could run a Linotype without an operator, like the robot it appeared to be; cold type (shining light through letters onto photographic paper to set text); computerized hyphenation and justification of text; computers in newsrooms, allowing publishers to “save keystrokes” and eliminate typesetting in composing rooms; and finally PostScript, which turned letters into shapes to be described and displayed by computers and printers.

    This time, the ITU tried fighting the technologies. A series of strikes over these issues killed six of nine New York newspapers — and eventually the union along with them.

    The lessons the ITU and its leadership faced with these new technologies was different from the lessons learned with the Linotype."
    medium.com/whither-news/labor-

    #Publishing #Typesetting #Lynotype #Unions #Automation

  15. #Trump has staggered federal unions, but they refuse to be knocked out… Membership in federal government unions has fallen 25% during Trump’s second term.

    ms.now/opinion/trump-federal-u #LaborDay #labor #union #unions #work #LaborLaw #LaborRights

  16. Today would be a great day to thank your local unions. Mine is BCGEU, but I’m grateful for them all.

    #unions #labourday

  17. Power company’s IBEW guys just drove by. On THE union holiday. On one hand, sucks to see them out. On the other, I bet they are absolutely RAKING IT IN. 🤑 Good for them.

    #LaborDay #unions #IBEW

  18. started a #wikipedia article on English-born American #labor organizer Melinda Scott (1876-1954), president of the New York chapter of the Women's Trade Union League @wtul en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_ @wikiwomeninred @wikimediauk #LaborDay #Suffrage #unions @wwu

  19. "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

  20. As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
    By Alan Kohler

    Business used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and political polarisation is fanciful.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/dec

    #Productivity #CostofLiving #AI #Unions #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #AlanKohler