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  • faviconWe Need a United Class, Not a United Left — Workers can get rid of their bosses and run all workplaces in the interests of the population as a whole. We need to build syndicalist trade unions: self-managed, open, class unions [2023]
    In: Trade unions    
    Topics: Co-ops, Worker Ownership   
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    Country: SE   
    Source: ZNetwork    

  • faviconPro-Woman, Anti-Worker — broadly speaking, the feminist movement hasn’t always operated in an inclusive way; even with the stakes so very high, some nominally feminist organizations have failed to extend a baseline measure of respect to the workers that make their mission possible [2020]
    In: Trade unions    
    Topics: Feminism, Worker Rights   
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    Country: US   
    Source: The Baffler    

  • faviconWorkers want unions, but the latest data point to obstacles in their path — more than 50 years of efforts to block access to unions have taken a heavy toll on workers’ rights. Employers have been exploiting weaknesses in U.S. labor law for decades, and federal and state policy have failed to prevent this [2024]
    In: Trade unions    
    Topics: Research, Worker Rights   
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    Country: US   
    Source: EPI    

  • faviconSupport for Unions Hits 70-Year High as US Workers See Power of Organized Labor — The upswing in support for organized labor—which paradoxically comes even as U.S. union membership remains near an all-time low—has been attributed to a wave of successful organizing in recent years [2024]
    In: Trade unions    
    Topics: Worker Rights   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Common Dreams    

  • faviconWhy Young People Are Joining Unions Again – A workplace is, at the most fundamental level, a microcosm of the political system. There are those who hold power, the bosses, and those who don’t, the workers. When unions are powerful, workers have something akin to a voice in the direction of their workplace [2018]
    In: Trade unions    
    Topics: Worker Rights, Workplace Dictatorship   
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    Source: Common Dreams    

  • faviconSamsung, the flagship of South Korean capitalism and one of the world’s biggest electronics firms, is facing its first-ever strike. The global tech giant, which has refused so far to engage in dialogue, citing the union’s lack of majority representation [2024]
    In: Trade unions    
    Topics: Technofeudalism, Worker Rights   
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    Country: KR   
    Source: Jacobin