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Management at attempted to pressure and her 200 predominantly Black, female co-workers into accepting numerous unnecessary concessions.

The workers in , , remained united for four years, resisting the company's efforts to undermine their .

Just as they were set to strike in spring 2024, Amfuel conceded, resulting in a contract with substantial raises, additional holidays, and other benefits.


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-solidarity-triumphs-over-corporate-greed/

"The union representing 48,000 academic workers across the University of California said Friday that its members at UC Santa Cruz will go on strike Monday over alleged worker rights and free speech violations, potentially dealing a blow to campus operations at a critical time during the final weeks of the spring quarter.

"The Santa Cruz strike would be the first of potentially several work stoppages that the union intends to launch one by one across campuses based on how receptive administrations are to pro-Palestinian activists’ demands."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-17/uc-academic-student-workers-santa-cruz-strike

@palestine

Ministry of Gripes Dept.

Pity the unemployed, homeless, and newstart/jobseeker who got nothing from .

But from my pensioner's chair, it ain't the cost of PBS medicines - although that's some help - it's the faarken $gap for every visit to the GP to get those damned prescriptions, dwarfing the cost of medicines. Or for when I need a retrospective GP referral to those endless and even more hellishly expensive specialist visits. I'm actively avoiding the GP despite a few rather alarming maladies I need to ask about.

To be fair, that has always been the goal.

"We find experienced employees impacted by these policies at major tech companies seek work elsewhere, taking some of the most valuable human capital investments and tools of productivity with them."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE1NDg2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE2ODY4Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTU0ODY0MDAsImp0aSI6IjEzYzUzYzYyLWIzNWEtNGZjZS05ODFhLWU0NTBhOWU2ZTI3MiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI0LzA1LzEyL3J0by1taWNyb3NvZnQtYXBwbGUtc3BhY2V4LyJ9.UIvzIv58TQTb6eSwqy47rds7JRdmGCQcZZdjVweZHC8

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On May 15, teachers belonging to the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) plan to launch a nationwide strike in Mexico.

The CNTE is a smaller, more radical union within the corrupt and coopted National Union of Education Workers (SNTE). Members of the CNTE make up the majority of teachers in places such as Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Mexico City.

They have put forward 11 demands, including the overturning of the neoliberal educational reform passed in 2013, better wages, improvements to classrooms and schools, and justice in cases such as the disappeared of Ayotzinapa.

The last time the CNTE held a national strike was in 2016, which saw the Nochixtlán Massacre, the jailing of union leaders, the mass firing of teachers, and more. For those interested, I covered those events in-depth for @igd_news when I was writing the column "Insumisión."

https://itsgoingdown.org/category/columns/insumision/

Here's an article in Spanish …