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GE Appliance plant, 90% union in "right-to-work" state, approve strike by 98%. 60% have to work second job, health care plan too expensive for 30%, most don't make enough for one-bedroom in city (labornotes.org)

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Maui: 98% of nurses union voters approve strike over workload, burn out, nurse-to-patient ratio (www.hawaiinewsnow.com)

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500 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize as labor talks continue (www.cnbc.com)

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Serbia: manager attacks three women with previous work-related injuries, throwing chair, one woman loses consciousness. Management claims surveillance cameras not operational. (www.industriall-union.org)

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Guatemala: health workers union activist murdered (publicservices.international)

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Samsung India strike: management refuses to recognize union, government arrests 900 (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

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"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely (sh.itjust.works)

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-american-tech-workers-feel-about-joining-a-union/

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Longshoremen: It’s disgraceful foreign-owned companies make their billion-dollar profits off backs of workers, and take those earnings out of this country into pockets of foreign conglomerates (ilaunion.org)

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South African unions denounce government's bow to the IMF, neoliberal policies, privatisation, and austerity (saftu.org.za)

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Australia: solidarity march against government takeover of union (sh.itjust.works)

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https://defendtheunions.cargo.site/

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Philippines: government red-tags youth activists, women’s groups, environmentalists, Indigenous peoples, journalists, and teachers. Union leader goes into hiding after layoff (www.hrw.org)

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Engineering specialists at Seagate hard-drives vote overwhelmingly for union after manufacturing specialists unionized last year (www.unitetheunion.org)

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Samsung India: management threatens striking employees with termination if they continued with protest (apnews.com)

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"My God, Roger! Only yesterday I told them we were one big, happy family!" (sh.itjust.works)

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https://mastodon.social/@Radical_EgoCom/113199263667805102

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Workers at 'progressive' Trader Joe's face rampant union busting two years after first store unionized (therealnews.com)

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Workers have voted to unionize in Chicago, Louisville, Oakland, and beyond—but management is resorting to dirty tricks in an effort to union bust.

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UK: Labour Party cracks down on dissenters who voted to reduce child poverty; "trade unions must become the most effective opposition if Labour keeps attacking the poorest" (www.morningstaronline.co.uk)

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Nepal unions: "It’s not fair that billionaires can hide their wealth offshore while we are denied simple wages and security" (publicservices.international)

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Martinique: union blocks roads with tractor-trailers, suspends bus service; another to strike over cost of living and low minimum wage. France sends anti-riot police, imposes curfew, bans protests (www.mymotherlode.com)

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Samsung India strike: employees don't earn enough to cover basic needs and cost of living; union says management spends less than 0.3% of total production value on labor costs (peoplesdispatch.org)

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Hotel owner: “If you want to join this union that you used to be in I will let you go, just so that is very clear.” (sh.itjust.works)

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https://grapevine.is/news/2024/09/24/foreign-worker-threatened-for-joining-union/

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CVS California: 7000 employees strike. "I work full-time yet can’t afford to get health insurance, which is ridiculous, because CVS owns Aetna" (www.theguardian.com)

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UK: union questions £1bn in public contracts with Amazon despite union-busting (www.bbc.com)

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Philippines: 95% of healthcare voters overwhelmingly approve formation of hospital union (publicservices.international)

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India: government destroys hundreds of port workers' and fishers' homes, leaving thousands homeless (www.itfglobal.org)

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Asia Pacific unions, across 20 countries, unanimously condemn Australian government's take over of CFMEU and firing 270 elected officials (www.bwint.org)

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