Tien is head of policy & legal affairs at the #Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and director of the Institute for #Workers & Trade #Unions, the group said.
TL;DR: #Copyright is not a fix for your #AI fears. Bullies want you to think they're on your side, but it's a trap. Bosses blame immigrants for low wages, while they actually take workers' wages. Corporations claim to protect creative workers from AI companies, but they exploit them just as much. It's a ploy to gain control and exploit workers, while deflecting blame onto others.
Republican lawmakers appear to have been transported from the "Gilded Age". They're taking away #WorkerRights...
Several pieces of legislation to erode worker’s protections in KY have begun moving thru the leg. process this year, incl. a bill to allow teenagers to work longer & later hours.
Another measure in that surge of leg. cleared a CMTE vote -would strip KY’s meal & rest break protections & 7th-day overtime.
We need to laud the successful ppl in Biden's admin. Two are #empoweredwomen & POC -so often maligned, esp. when aggressively defending what's right & lawful. FTC CHM Khan & VP Harris have wins. Cowardly, SEC CHM Gensler let the financiers win with crypto & Pence was...
FTC Chair Lina Khan is taking antitrust violations seriously as noted⬆️& today, blocking Kroger from merging with Albertsons. Khan is a fierce defender for consumers & workers:
FTC sues to block Kroger, Albertsons merger, arguing deal would raise grocery prices and hurt workers.
Don’t say insurrectionists. Don’t say there’s such a thing as #TheBigLie. Don’t say gay. Don’t say CRT or DEI. Don’t say you’re protesting (some: is illegal in FL). Don’t say immigrants enrich America & increase the GDP. Don’t say climate change… #DeathSantis & his Republican cronies have destroyed Florida. “While Florida sinks into the ocean, Republican lawmakers wanna use their supermajority to ban the phrase “climate change” from state law.” -Carlos G Smith
#DeathSantis has proven once again, he has earned his nickname. His diabolical policies are moved forward by #MAGA Republican Florida lawmakers.
“This idea of giving water breaks to farmworkers and construction workers during dangerous heat waves on scorching hot days … that’s something that local communities should decide in their own backyards,” said
E Wood, policy director at
WeCount!
For my international audience (because i can't believe my #German audience could have missed this).
After the recent #antifascist#antifa demonstations there has been a popularisation of the #antifasticker meme. People from all walks of live appropriate symbols from their lived experience and combine it with the antifascist logo for something amusing. Here are some samples with alt-texts providing a translation/explanation. A thread 🧵1/10 : #WorkerRights #colorblind#nyancat#cthulhu
UAW announces union campaign at Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama | US unions | The Guardian
Over 30% of workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant outside of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have signed union authorization cards, the United Auto Workers (UAW) announced on Tuesday.
The news is another significant boost to the UAW’s plans to unionize non-union auto workers throughout the US after securing historic contracts for workers at the big three US automakers last year.
The balance of power between workers and employers, which has been tilted toward employers for nearly a half-century, is beginning to shift, according to two labor scholars.
“In general, strikes grow more common when economic conditions change in ways that empower workers. That’s especially true with the tight labor markets and high inflation seen in the U.S. in recent years.”
Most workers win, so CNBC points out the costs for business:
The US DOL on Tues issued a final rule that will force companies to treat some workers as employees rather than less expensive independent contractors, in a move that has riled bus groups & will likely prompt legal challenges.
The rule is widely expected to⬆️ labor costs for IDUs that rely on contract labor or freelancers: trucking, MANU, HC & app-based “gig” services....
Tesla may have picked an unwinnable fight with Sweden’s powerful unions | Martin Gelin | The Guardian
For the first time anywhere in the world, workers for the US carmaker Tesla have gone on strike. It’s not a coincidence that this strike is happening in Sweden, which has one of the strongest labour movements in Europe. More than 90% of workers are protected by collective bargaining agreements, and the system has strong backing among employees and employers alike. With good reason: the Swedish labour relations model has sustained relative industrial peace between wage-earners and corporations for decades.
By refusing to play ball, Elon Musk’s car giant may have picked an unwinnable fight. What started as a minor local disagreement has grown to the point that it could have global implications, with potential ripple effects for labour movements and auto workers across Europe and the US.
For months, #workers have been calling on the government and factory owners to raise their wages from 8,300 taka, or $75 a month, to 23,000 taka, or $205 a month.
I'm more than happy to work. I've done it for years without pay. But I'm not willing to be exploited, abused, or messed around.
I prefer to obtain rent, food, etc, through mutual aid. But if I can't get everything I need that way, or get enough income to cover it without being exploited, abused, or messed around, I'll squat, shoplift, etc.
Whether or not you think that's reasonable tells me everything I need to know about which side of the class war you're on.
Michigan has the most plants joining the UAW’s Detroit Three strike
Week two of the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike started Friday, with 38 new sites being called to join picket lines after another week of negotiations with Detroit Three auto manufacturers Ford, General Motors and Stellantis failed to result in a deal. Of the now 41 locations on strike across 21 states, 14 are in Michigan.
'Elon Musk’s X Corp. has agreed to try to settle claims by thousands of former Twitter employees who say they were cheated of severance pay, according to a memo by a lawyer for the workers seen by Bloomberg News.'
The Bay View massacre was the result of a strike held on May 4, 1886, by 7,000 building-trades workers and 5,000 Polish laborers who had organized at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to strike against their employers, demanding the enforcement of an eight-hour work day.
By Monday, May 3, the number of participants had increased to over 14,000 workers who gathered at the Milwaukee Iron Company rolling mill in Bay View. They were met by 250 National Guardsmen under order from Republican Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk. The strikers had shut down every business in the city except the North Chicago Rolling Mills in Bay View. The guardsmen's orders were that, if the strikers were to enter the Mills, they should shoot to kill. But when the captain received the order it had a different meaning: he ordered his men to pick out a man and shoot to kill when the order was given. Workers camped in the nearby fields and the Kosciuszko Militia arrived by May 4. Early the next day the crowd, which by this time contained children, approached the mill and were fired upon. Seven people died as a result, including a thirteen-year-old boy. Several more were injured during the protest. Several contradictory newspaper accounts described other possible casualties, but the count of seven deaths is substantiated by specific names (Frank Kunkel, Frank Nowarczyk, John Marsh, Robert Erdman, Johann Zazka, Martin Jankowiak, and Michael Ruchalski).