JohnNov 11, 2024

Australian government takeover of construction union: #union of 100,000 electrical, plumbing and postal workers disaffiliates from #ACTU due to ACTU's ties to government

https://jacobin.com/2024/10/australia-labor-albanese-construction-union

#Australia #unions #AnthonyAlbanese #LaborParty #CFMEU #corruption #democracy #authoritarianism #UnionBusting #JohnHoward #CompanyUnions #RAFFWU #ColesWoolworths #SDA #FreedomOfAssociation #ACTU #MarkIrving #PoliceState #BLF #FairWork #CEPU #ALP #ChrisMinns #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

The Labor Careerists Wrecking Australia’s Construction Union

When Labor PM Anthony Albanese seized control of Australia’s construction union, he claimed to be acting in union members’ interests. But leaked documents show that Labor’s handpicked administrators are paying themselves a fortune — with union members’ money.

JohnMar 2, 2024

#CocaCola #Philippines attempts to convince employees to disaffiliate from independent and democratic #unions and join “non-radical” #CompanyUnions, harass union elections and meetings

https://iufap.org/2024/03/02/protect-respect-and-remedy-coca-cola-philippines-must-end-its-culture-of-interference-in-workers-choice-to-join-or-form-a-union/

#union #UnionBusting #RedTagging #HLTM #NTFELCAC #FCCUSENTROIUF #FCCU #communists #FCCUSENTRO #HumanRights #PoliceState #GregStone #SSRV #SRMP #persecution #FreedomOfAssociation #intimidation #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

Protect, Respect and Remedy? Coca-Cola Philippines must end its culture of interference in workers' choice to join or form a union - IUF Asia-Pacific

At the height of fear and intimidation through “red-tagging” in the Philippines in 2019-2021, Coca-Cola Philippines stands out in its failure to protect and respect workers’ rights. Subsequent inaction by The Coca-Cola Company’s Bottling Investments Group (BIG) not only fails to provide remedy, but its inaction perpetuates local management interference in workers’ choices in forming […]

IUF Asia-Pacific
Show threadCory DoctorowOct 11, 2023

Instead, DEI is how corporate management demonstrates to workers that their grievances are best addressed by trusting corporate leadership to correct their error of their ways - and not by forming a #union.

Before the passage of the #NationalLaborRelationsAct in 1935, corporations would create fake "#CompanyUnions" whose leadership were beholden to the company executives.

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BunkuninFeb 19, 2023
Mexican Workers Are Rejecting Company Unions
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/mexico-auto-industry-independent-union-organizing-saint-gobain-cuautla
#Mexico #Workers #CompanyUnions
Mexican Workers Are Rejecting Company Unions

Mexican autoworkers in the city of Emiliano Zapata’s burial just voted to join a new independent union, breaking from the company-friendly unions that dominate the country.