Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday vowed to realize wage hikes that keep up with the soaring cost of living, at his first May Day event since taking office last autumn. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/26/ishiba-wages/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #unions #jobs #wages #shigeruishiba #rengo #inflation
Unions Cheer After Judge Halts #Trump Order on Federal Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights
"Today's court order is a victory for federal employees, their union rights, and the #American people they serve," said the head of the National Treasury Employees Union.
from #CommonDreams
Jessica Corbett
Apr 25, 2025
"Labor unions representing federal workers celebrated on Friday after a U.S. district judge blocked President Donald Trump's March executive order intended to strip the collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of government employees."
El pasado lunes se publicó en Izquierda Diario una entrevista a CSVI, donde hablamos sobre el sindicato en base a la reciente huelga de Ubisoft Barcelona y los distintos retos y objetivos por los que luchamos diariamente.
No os la perdáis!
If Fear Is The Goal, Then Solidarity Is The Antidote
https://popularresistance.org/if-fear-is-the-goal-then-solidarity-is-the-antidote/
"The Trump administration is ending work authorizations for two hundred union members who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. It also revoked the visas of several members of the Graduate Workers Coalition at the University of Indiana. The union frequently strikes and pickets for better wages for student teachers."
The unions in the state of #utah have received more than double the signatures needed for their referendum. This referendum would put it on the ballot to reverse the just passed law that banned collective bargaining in the state.
There is one caveat though, there’s another rule that it has to reach a certain threshold in at least 15 of 29 counties in the state. #union #unions #unionstrong #labor #workers #work #economy #utpol
https://www.abc4.com/news/politics/inside-utah-politics/utah-union-referendum-signature-count/
Over 1000 lawyers, in 42 states, trained to do #ProBono work for federal employees being attacked by #DOGE. “We are still operating as though there is a #RuleOfLaw”
California's senator Scott Wiener proposed a bill that would've let wildfire victims sue the oil companies for causing the climate crisis.
Guess who teamed up with the Big Oil execs to defeat the bill?
Unions.
Specifically the unions representing oil industry workers. In other words, the workers collaborated with their class enemies: their bosses.
I'm not opposed to unions. I've been a union organizer for decades. But goddamn, these blockheads are acting just like Mr. Block (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Block). They somehow forgot the first rule of labor: the boss is NOT your friend. Be suspicious. Don't trust them. And sure as hell don't collaborate with them to help enrich them even further, especially not on your backs, nor in ways that further destroy the planet.
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.... Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth."
-- preamble to the constitution of the IWW
That last line, added to the original 1905 preamble to the IWW constitution in the late 1980s, might sound a bit vague and "crunchy." But it was an attempt to acknowledge that some types of work simply shouldn't exist. That's not to say those who currently work in those industries (e.g. Fossil fuel extraction) should be thrown under the bus. Everyone should be allowed to do something productive that they enjoy. And everyone should have all the material necessities to live a safe secure and meaningful existence. But saving the planet from climate collapse will certainly require many changes in the types of work that are available. Coal mining, for example, has been on the decline for years because there is so little left in many regions that it's not profitable for the bosses to continue paying miners to mine ît anymore.
In a sane and compassionate world, we'd provide these workers with free Healthcare housing, UBI, and retraining so they could transition to some other productive endeavor. And union leaders would recognize that the interests of their members are much more closely aligned with, and linked to, those of the rest of the working class. (Continued burning of oil will contribute to more climate disasters, more wild fires, and possible the loss of their own members' lives or homes).
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-oil-union-climate-bill/
Posted by AFL-CIO America's #Labor #Unions;
SMART #Union General President Michael Coleman tells CNN "We’ve done our own check... we have ZERO INDICATION" that #KilmarAbregoGarcia is a gang member.
Coleman demands #AbregoGarcia be brought home & given the #DueProcess he is afforded under the US #Constitution.
" #Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by #Trump
Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court. A new service will offer more individualized representation." #UnionStrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/federal-workers-trump-network-unions.html
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
Industrial disputes & news - 16 April 2025
#NSWDoctors ; St Mary’s Community Health Centre; #Cleanaway ; #KeolisDowner ; #FireRescueVictoria; #Qube ; #RamsayHealthCare ; #WorkfortheDole #AUWU ; #CFMEU Manufacturing Deamalgamation & #IWMD
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-16-april?
"Around 250 doctors at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) have been certified as the first unionized resident and fellow physicians in Minnesota, according to union officials.
The physicians are represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local of the Service Employees International Union (CIR/SEIU)..."
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/hennepin-county-physicians-certified-union-minnesota-seiu/
But acc/to an official #whistleblower disclosure shared w/ #Congress & other federal overseers…, subsequent whistleblower interviews & records of internal comms, technical staff were alarmed about what #DOGE engineers did when granted access, particularly when staffers noticed a spike in #data LEAVING the agency. It's possible that the data included sensitive info on #unions, ongoing #legal cases & #CorporateSecrets — data that 4 #labor #law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB….
The American Library Association, the largest library association in the world, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest union representing museum and library workers, are suing the Nazi Regime over its gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
#resist #resistance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #democracy #Democrats #union #unions #unionstrong
All you Old fashion #Liberals and people duped into #AOC & #BernieSanders rally is defeating yourself & wasting your time & energy in building Class Consciousness & actual #Workers / #Unions power to be militant, like how it #directaction was achieved in #LatinAmerica and other places, where you all pretend to have these radical platforms that #progressives consider ideal but essentially & directly oppose the only thing to get real change.
Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force
https://inthesetimes.com/article/unions-labor-trump-oligarchy-fascism
