Power of #unions.

https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/03/army-corps-workers-defend-parental-leave-direct-action

#Argentina: #GeneralStrike called against repression of protests, economic policies like wage suppression, and increased #IMF debt

https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/14/argentina-s-cgt-announces-24-hour-general-strike

Japan continues to see pay hike momentum among major companies in this year’s spring wage negotiations, with a number of such employers saying they have agreed to the demands of their respective labor unions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/12/companies/large-japanese-companies-shunto/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #shunto #unions #rengo #wages #jobs #japaneseeconomy #toyota #mitsubishiheavyindustries #hitachi #fujitsu #nec

Workers in Japan have seen their base pay rise at the fastest clip in 32 years, a result that sends a positive signal to the Bank of Japan as it weighs the prospects for demand-driven economic growth. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/10/economy/base-pay-gains-fast/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #boj #japaneseeconomy #wages #unions #mhlw

Britain’s biggest unions call for much closer UK-EU ties amid a ‘volatile’ global economy.

The unions calls for new cooperation agreement ahead of Keir Starmer’s reset talks with Brussels.

The UK should forge much closer ties with Europe amid an increasingly “volatile and unpredictable” global economy, Britain’s biggest trade unions argue as they push for new workers’ rights across the continent.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250307-britains-biggest-unions-call-for-much-closer-uk-eu-ties-amid-a-volatile-global-economy?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

The weighted average of wage hikes demanded by 2,939 member unions of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, in this year's labor-management negotiations came to 6.09%, a Rengo survey showed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/06/shunto-pay-hike-demand-top-6/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #shunto #unions #rengo

#MatthewDesmond (Princeton University) in the #DailyShow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLN0YoErK0

You get the impression that #poverty is made and continued by design in the #USA. And there is almost no incentive for the #billionaires to end poverty at all, although they could very easily by just stopping #taxfraud or collecting the taxes that are already due today.

#Money flows to the super #rich (which pay less #taxes!) instead to the people in need.

The #AmericanDream is an illusion.

What a shit country. What a shit system.

"REI board blocks labor-backed candidates from ballot"

Members, go vote by May 1! Vote against every candidate. That's the only option they're giving us. Totally undemocratic.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rei-board-blocks-labor-backed-120057870.html

The #REI #union is asking members to vote in the board election that opened up today. They are asking members to vote to withhold.

Please boost! I have this guess that REI members are a fair slice of who is here on Mastodon.

https://vote.escvote.com/REI/

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#unions

‪Federal Workers United‬ ‪
9 AM - Rally with CFPB Union
5 PM - Rally at HUD

The Workers Strike Back demands:

1. Workers Need a Real Raise — $25/Hour Minimum Wage

2. Good Union Jobs for All

3. Fight Racism, Sexism & All Oppression

4. Quality Affordable Housing & Free Healthcare for All

5. End the Genocidal War on Gaza — No Military Aid, No Occupation

6. No More Sellouts — We Need a New Party

https://www.workersstrikeback.org/

Happening now: Huge mobilisations taking place right across Greece today, as workers bring capitalism to a standstill in a breathtaking general strike.

Labor unions and economic boycotts are not just about fighting for higher wages or minimums like UBI. The people can demand whatever what we want. That means sustainable, global class revolution.

Right now, it's time to demand caps on wealth, at the individual AND national level. There can be no democracy if financial entities can grow without limits. This is, again, an #international issue.

Judge blocks #Trump admin’s #MassFirings of #FederalWorkers

A federal judge ruled that the terminations at several #FederalAgencies, including the Dept of #Defense, were likely #illegal.

A federal judge on Thurs ordered #OPM to rescind directives that initiated the mass firing of probationary govt workers in several agencies across the government, ruling that the terminations were probably illegal, as a group of labor #unions argued in court.

#law #Musk #DOGE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/27/judge-probationary-federal-employee-firings-lawsuit/