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#Volvo Cars to cut 5% of #jobs at #SouthCarolina plant as #tariffs bite
#VolvoCars said on Wednesday it would make production changes & cut 5% of the #workforce at its #Charleston plant in the #UnitedStates due to changing #market conditions & evolving #trade policies, including #Trump’s tariffs.
#economy #labor #inflation #recession
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/volvo-cars-cut-5-workforce-south-carolina-plant-us-2025-05-07/
A close look at Nike’s massive supply chain offers a case study in the possible ripple effects of the escalating global trade war and shows how vulnerable factory workers could get squeezed.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-trump-tariffs-impact-workers-prices?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#bundeskanzler #kanzlerwahl #merz #misstrauen #groko #mehrheit #wahlgang #tränen #krokodilstränen #abstimmung #anonym #geheim #geheimewahl #analyse #weinen #chemie #labor #cdu #csu #union #spd #abgeordnete #abweichler #fraktionen #demokratie #bundestag #bundesregierung #koalition #kanzlermehrheit #trauer #freude #schadenfreude #denkzettel #cartoon #karikatur
"To address unjust policies and conditions, more than 70 incarcerated workers inside Centinela State Prison collectively decided last fall to “slow down” production for the California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA). According to workers who spoke to Prism, the organizing effort was successful—and there may soon be another slowdown."
https://prismreports.org/2025/04/29/incarcerated-workers-california-work-slowdown/
This week's comic: A "manly" economy
#economy #oligarchy #gender #authoritarianism #labor #jobs #inequality #work
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Der #Trump-Effekt: https://orf.at/stories/3392351/
#Labor holt die Absolute weil der liberalkonservative Kandidate als zu Trump-nahe empfunden wurde.
„[Duttons] als zu groß empfundene Nähe zu Trump kostete den früheren [liberalkonservativen] Innen- und Verteidigungsminister Zustimmungswerte.“
✊🏽Today is International Worker’s Day! May Day is honored around the world and started here in the United States. Although its history is covered up and distorted, the radical labor movement of this country won basic rights we enjoy today like the eight-hour workday.
Credit: @pslnational
#BostonWeekend 2/x
Thu #workers: #MayDay rally 530p @ #BostonCommon
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIwx1kYhqTR/ bit.ly/bos-mayday2025
#Boston #Labor #1u #UnionStrong #IWW #Massachusetts #InternationalWorkersDay
Former employees of a Nike clothing factory in Cambodia said they sometimes saw two or three people taken to an onsite clinic in a day. One described how he carried workers who were too weak to walk.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-cambodia-fainting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Wondering why the U.S. and Canada celebrate their Labor Day in September?
"The ruling class did not want to have a very active labor force connected internationally," said Peter Linebaugh, author of The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day. "The principle of national patriotism was used against the principle of working-class unity or trade union unity."
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/30/1095729592/what-is-may-day-history
#InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #labor #workers #WorkingClass #WorkersRights #WorkerSolidarity
"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-30-2025/
#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons
On May 1st 1890 in Paris, left-wing activists wore a red triangle:
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One for 8 hours work,
one for 8 hours leisure,
one for 8 hours rest.
"Red triangle: the working-class origins of an anti-fascist symbol" (fr) https://www.solidaire.org/articles/triangle-rouge-les-origines-ouvrieres-d-un-symbole-antifasciste
#antiFascism #struggles #labour #labor #workHours #redTriangle #invertedTriangle #triangle #Mai1st #unionism #tradeUnions #Paris #LabourDay #LaborDay #OTD
Join us tomorrow in San Jose to stand up for workers' rights, our communities, and our democracy!
The rally will start at Story & King, then march down to San Jose City Hall - join at either end, or along the way,
#MayDay #MayDayStrong #50501movement #SanJose #WorkersRights #ImmigrantsRights #Labor
https://maydaysanjose.org/
Yeah, I think I'm going to call this "malicious management" from here on out.
EA reportedly cancels another Titanfall game, lays off several hundred employees
