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#Cowichan Valley residents adapt to life without #PublicTransit as strike enters 4th month.
#PeopleWithDisabilities , #students & #seniors struggle with the lack of options for #transportation in the Cowichan Valley.

#UniforLocal114 & #UniforLocal333BC the union representing 44 drivers, mechanics& cleaners, have been on strike since Feb. 8. They are advocating for wages similar to their counterparts in Victoria, better access to washroom facilities & more consistent breaks. #Workers have since voted against a new contract with their employer, #TransDev & the strike reaches 105 days, there is still no end in sight. As a result of the strike, #transit in the Cowichan Valley has been on hold, interfering with where and how people move through the community. #HandyDart services are still available but only for medical appointments related to renal dialysis, cancer treatment & multiple sclerosis.

https://thediscourse.ca/cowichan-valley/cowichan-valley-residents-adapt-to-life-without-public-transit-as-strike-enters-fourth-month

#BusStrike #Unions #WorkerRights #BusRiders #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PublicTransportation

In a tense Senate Appropriations hearing, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer faced tough questioning from Senator Murphy about alarming cuts to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program (OFCCP) which have severely diminished worker rights protections. The reduction from 55 offices to just four raises concerns about accountability, especially regarding allegations against Elon Musk. Murphy argues this is unjustifiable and possibly illegal. Read more at https://crooksandliars.com/2025/05/trump-labor-secretary-i-know-nothing. #LaborDepartment #ElonMusk #WorkerRights #SenateHearing #ChavezDeRemer

This is an important decision: food #couriers in #Finland recognized as employees by the Supreme Administrative Court.

I wrote some quick reflections on the decision and the struggle for courier worker rights.

https://research.tuni.fi/tammisto/blog/food-couriers-are-recognized-as-employees/

#work #workerrights #Justice4Couriers

Wild: SpaceX employee with Crohn's claims bathroom breaks were timed before his firing. Another troubling report on worker conditions at Musk-led companies. #SpaceX #WorkerRights #Disability

Ex SpaceX Employee Sues After Firing Over Bathroom Breaks

"Starbucks, the largest coffee chain in the world and the 120th richest corporation in the United States, is being brought to court after being exposed for using slave labor in their coffee production chain."

https://liberationnews.org/starbucks-sued-for-slave-labor/

#Slavery #LaborRights #WorkerRights #Starbucks

Trump didn’t just slash worker protections—he targeted the agency that shields Americans from cancer-causing chemicals, toxic fumes & deadly jobsite hazards. This wasn’t deregulation. It was calculated cruelty in service of greed. #NIOSH #WorkerRights #GOPCrimeSpree www.google.com/url?q=https:...

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"Solomon says the scale and depravity of what he was exposed to was far darker than he had ever imagined" #meta #contentmoderation #workerrights

#MayDay event in #PortlandMaine!

May Day
#NationalDayOfAction
#StopTheBillionaireTakeover

Thursday, May 1
3:30 - 6pm EDT

USM Portland Campus | Green Space in front of McGoldrick Center for Career & Student Success
35 Bedford St.
Portland, ME 04101

Organized Locally by the Maine May Day Committee.

@Todd : "We’ll begin at 3:30 on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine to speak out against Trump’s threat to our public universities. And, we’ll march on the boss to demand the UMaine system bargain in good faith and sign a union contract with graduate student workers represented by the United Auto Workers. The two go hand in hand.

Next, we’ll march to the Post Office on Forest Ave to oppose Trump’s threats to privatize it and hear from workers threatened with mass layoffs. Then up past Portland High School and the Portland Public Library in solidarity with educators and students opposed to Trump’s destruction of the Department of Education and his attacks on LGTBQ+ and immigrant students. Finally we’ll march up Congress Street during rush hour to the Portland Museum of Art to support funding for the arts and hold a final community rally starting around 5:00 pm. We’ll have a program of speaking out against Trump’s attack and offering ideas about how to deepen solidarity between all the different parts of our movement for democracy and justice.

We need your help. Please attend the march if you are able. It’s a big state, so if you can’t get to Portland, please support or organize another action in your town or region hosted by the Maine Education Association and the Maine AFL-CIO or any other community group that steps up to stand up. Strength in solidarity."

@AIF_Massachusetts

Full post:
https://kolektiva.social/@Todd@pineandroses.org/114362039249759162

#MayDay #WorkerRights #LaborRights #LaborUnions #MaineDSA #MayDay2025 #Labor #Organizing #MEPol #MaineResists

May Day

National Day of Action

Stop the Billionaire Takeover

Thursday, May 1
3:30 - 6pm EDT

USM Portland Campus | Green Space in front of McGoldrick Center for Career & Student Success
35 Bedford St.
Portland, ME 04101

Organized Locally by the Maine May Day Committee.

Everyone is also gearing up for a big May Day. We anticipate actions across New England that day, so if you know of any please post them here or with the hashtag #MayDay2025!

#Antifascism #MayDay #WorkerRights #LaborRights #LaborUnions

New York Times: Google Says Employees Can Discuss Antitrust Case. This link goes to a gift article. “The agreement is another blow to Google’s corporate policies designed to maintain secrecy, which have been scrutinized amid the search case brought by the Justice Department. It also undercut Google’s strategy to keep its business humming during the lawsuit — to have employees ignore the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/08/new-york-times-google-says-employees-can-discuss-antitrust-case/

My idea about how #trade agreements should be done by the #EU: All products imported into the EU should adhere to current and *future* EU regulations. EU regulations should enforce #workerrights, #animalrights, #climate change protection, #environmental responsibility, #consumer rights and more.
All who adhere to good practices should be welcome to sell without tariffs.
Now let the EU work on improving regulations that support public values for the planet and all its inhabitants.

ZeniMax Workers Union Threatens Microsoft Protest Over Pay and Work Conditions

#industrialaction #laborunion #microsoft #workerrights #ZeniMax
https://blazetrends.com/zenimax-workers-union-threatens-microsoft-protest-over-pay-and-work-conditions/?fsp_sid=5232

🚨 Tell #Wrangler, #IKEA, #Amazon: protect your workers! 😠
#StrongerTogether 💪
#WorkerRights
#HumanRights
#Petition 👇 https://action.eko.org/a/wrangler-ikea-amazon-protect-your-workers?source=taf

The Conversation: Africa’s data workers are being exploited by foreign tech firms – 4 ways to protect them. “Since 2015, we have been studying the central role of African data workers in building and maintaining artificial intelligence (AI) systems, acting as ‘data janitors’. Our research found that companies rarely acknowledge the use of human workers in AI value chains, thus they […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/the-conversation-africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them/

Africa: Africa's Data Workers Are Being Exploited By Foreign Tech Firms - 4 Ways to Protect Them: [The Conversation Africa] Data workers in Africa often have a hard time. They face job insecurities - including temporary contracts, low pay, arbitrary dismissal and worker surveillance - and alarming physical and psychological health risks. The consequences of their work can include exhaustion, burnout,… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJstGF #Africa #DataWorkers #TechExploitation #MentalHealth #WorkerRights

SFA Law named California's top personal injury law firm for 2025, championing employee rights and legal advocacy through expert representation across complex legal landscapes. #LegalExcellence #WorkerRights

Worker rights laws exist because those in power (aka "management") refuse to concede that their perspectives are just one valid perspective on what "success" means.

Generally speaking their perspective is one that considers the basic assumptions capitalism posits as some kind absolute truths. As tenets that one *needs* to follow to be successful. And that leads to very little room for alternative but I'd argue equally valid perspectives.

That's where worker rights come in. Germany for example empowers employees to establish an elected worker council. The members of this council cannot be fired and meet management on eye level. They can veto certain decisions and their input cannot be ignored (management needs to document that they are taking action).

Management loves to tout open door policies. But they consistently fail to acknowledge that their view on "success" is by no means the only valid view. And that's why workers rights are necessary. Unless they prefer the lynch mob?

#capitalism #workerRights

A reminder that it was only 3 days before 4,000 education workers in Edmonton Public, Fort McMurray Public, and Fort McMurray Catholic school districts reached a tentative agreement "higher than the original wage mandates imposed by the Alberta government", that Medicine Hat workers rejected a deal for a measly 3% annual wage increase which doesn't keep up with inflation, which their employer called a "final offer" (which is a bullshit line unless you intend on violating legislated labour laws).

Now 3 days later, their bargaining position has completely changed. There is no way that the Medicine Hat school district can continue to hold out when 4,000 fellow Alberta education workers have won a fair contract and in the words of Alberta CUPE president Rory Gil, "finally won the respect they deserve".

This is such an important lesson in solidarity and the power of collective action. This win will snowball and start a domino effect, ending strikes across Alberta with fair contracts for workers. We only have power when we stay strong and stand together.

Understand that those 5 months (Fort Mac) and 2 months (Edmonton) that 4,000 education workers spent in abysmal deep freeze temperatures were a fight for all of our rights as workers to fair pay and respect, as the valuable force which keeps our society running. This was not just a win for those 4,000 deserving workers. It was a win for all of us.

This is how all the labour laws and legislation which makes our working lives bearable have been earned. Health benefits, weekends, maternity leave, wage increases, reasonable working hours, overtime pay, paid holidays, vacation time, workplace standards, the right to refuse unsafe work, protection against discrimination. We owe it all to our steadfast union workers.

Thank a union worker today. In Solidarity.

https://alberta.cupe.ca/2025/03/12/medicine-hat-school-support-workers-reject-government-offer/

#solidarity #unionstrong #union #WorkerRights #abpoli #cdnpoli #education