P.E.I. Nurses' Union says new deal necessary for better recruitment, retention
Island nurses have been without a collective bargaining agreement for more than a year and in recent weeks, contract talks with Health PEI have stalled. The union worries this will hurt recruitment and retention. CBC’s Cody MacKay explains.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7219698?cmp=rss

International Labour Organization: New ILO database strengthens global knowledge on social dialogue institutions. “The database is designed to support governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, researchers, and ILO constituents in strengthening evidence-based social dialogue policies and institutions across countries and regions.” I was not familiar with the term “social dialogue.” […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/international-labour-organization-new-ilo-database-strengthens-global-knowledge-on-social-dialogue-institutions/

The #PublicServicesEmergency is real. But across Europe, public service unions are fighting back - and winning! In this edition of our #CollectiveBargaining newsletter: gains in Finnish health services, Czech jobs protected, and Italian workers backed by the courts, and more. More in reply 👇

📰 Ah, drivers forming a union in Massachusetts? 🚗🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How quaint! Surely, the #ride-share behemoths will quake in their boots at the thought of a collective bargaining effort that requires #JavaScript and an ad-free experience just to read about it. 😜 #BraveNewWorld
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/uber-lyft-drivers-massachusetts-form-first-us-ride-share-union-2026-05-26/ #driversunion #Massachusetts #collectivebargaining #BraveNewWorld #HackerNews #ngated

Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/crappy-boss-ai-marxist #AI #AIWorkers #CollectiveBargaining #WorkingConditions #SqueezeWorkers

Having shut down the #TradeUnions on 2 May, the #Nazis formally abolished the right of workers to form #LabourUnions & banned #CollectiveBargaining on #ThisDayInHistory in 1933. Conditions deteriorated steadily under #fascist rule as #socialists were sent to #ConcentrationCamps.

#RichDick #VA #Democrat #Governor #AbigailSpanberger screws over hundreds of thousands of #Virginia #workers
#collectivebargaining #unions
https://means.tv/programs/mmn?cid=4802532&permalink=mmn-daily_051526

Overworked #AIAgents Turn #Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated #AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for #collectivebargaining rights.
"When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies," says Andrew Hall, a political economist at Stanford University who led the study.
https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/
https://archive.ph/KYfIk

National Council on Teacher Quality: Have you checked out our new database?. “Earlier this month, NCTQ launched an amazing new tool to give the public better access to the content of collective bargaining agreements, teacher handbooks, school calendars and teacher salary schedules. … We’ve begun with the nation’s 50 largest school districts but will be adding an additional 50 this year.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/national-council-on-teacher-quality-have-you-checked-out-our-new-database/