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UK trade union law breaches workers' human rights as it does not protect them from sanctions short of dismissal for taking part in industrial action, the Supreme Court ruled today.
"The right of an employer to impose any sanction at all short of dismissal for participation in lawful industrial action nullifies the right to take lawful strike action," Judge Ingrid Simler said in the court's written ruling. #TradeUnions#Unison#WorkersRights#HumanRights#ECHR#UK
FYI, the lottery is a regressive tax disproportionately paid by the people who can least afford it, and little of the proceeds actually go to community funding.
We should fund community services by taxing the rich, not by conning working people into thinking they'll become rich.
Also, how is this legal? Surely the law must be revised to disallow this sort of bad faith retaliation (good luck under the Tories or the Thatcher Fan Club).
Amazon is up to its old union-busting tricks in its vast BHX4 warehouse in Coventry, England. They are hiring huge numbers of extra staff in an attempt to dilute the GMB union membership below 50%. If union membership at BHX4 grows to more than 50 per cent, Amazon could be forced by the Central Arbitration Committeeto recognise the GMB.
These tactics are throwing the warehouse and working conditions into chaos.
No ‘export of workers’ to Israel, say trade unions in India
All major trade unions have called on the govt to scrap the agreement with Israel & appealed to workers to boycott Israeli products and to refuse to handle Israeli cargo.
#EU#Finland#Neoliberalism#Precarity#TradeUnions: "After World War II, Finland’s militant trade unions created one of the world’s strongest welfare states. Today, the country spends more on the welfare state than any other OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) country, at around a quarter of GDP. Finland regularly tops the rankings of the happiest countries in the world and is arguably one of the most successful examples of the social democratic model.
At the heart of the Finnish class compromise is the tradition of social dialogue between unions, employers, and the government, which has led to annual nationwide and sectoral negotiations on wage setting for all union members, tripartite negotiations on new legislative proposals, and the expansion of the welfare state. But this social contract is about to be torn apart by a newly elected right-wing government.
While Finnish politics made international headlines in recent years with a center-left coalition led by five women and headed by the young social democrat Sanna Marin, a radicalized right won a majority in the last parliamentary election in April 2023. As a result, the conservatives, the Christian Democrats, a Swedish minority party, and the far-right Finns Party formed a government. Since then, the coalition has launched the strongest attack on workers’ rights and social security in the history of the Finnish welfare state.
Annika Rönni-Sällinen is president of Finland’s Service Union United (PAM). Daniel Kopp asked her about what the plans mean for the welfare state — and what her union is doing to respond."
[2023-09-13] Big Three Autoworkers Getting Ready to Strike As Negotiations Come Down to Wire
United Auto Workers’ contract w. the Big Three automakers expires tomorrow at midnight
If no agreement is reached, UAW ready to strike to recoup concessions made over past 2 decades, end tiers, & boost wages https://jacobin.com/2023/09/big-three-auto-industry-strike-deadline-uaw-wages-tiers
1st time in history, United Auto Workers launched simultaneous strike against Big Three U.S. automakers: Ford; General Motors; Stellantis (parent company of Chrysler)
The Dublin Lockout began on 26 August 1913 as Dublin workers began to leave work in response to a call for a general strike from James Larkin. A Dublin businessman, William Martin Murphy, fired forty workers he suspects belong to the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU). A resulting strike and related civil unrest, the Dublin Lockout, lasted until January 1914.