Industrial disputes & news - 1 July 2026
SA #nurses & #midwives; Campbell's Soup; Victorian #teachers; DOF; ACT public sector; Melbourne metro councils; DXC; UTas; BHP; TasWater; #CFMEU SA; UGL; Victorian #doctors
(Thanks Sara Missen)
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-1-july?
#SamWallman exhibition at the Public Record Office of Victoria in North Melbourne. most pieces are from the forthcoming book 'ALL OUT!'.
#art #BLF #cartoons #constructionworkers #GreenBans #labourmovement #PinkBans #unions
121 years of fighting for higher wages, less working hours, better and safer working conditions, and beyond - for bread yes, but for roses too!
“ We know that it is millionaires and billionaires who have made life so hard for working people in this country — not undocumented immigrants.”
when the demonstration thinned, retaliatory actions began
A #GEOGroup employee/private security contractor deliberately struck a protester with his car; she was taken to the hospital. Soon after, ICE agents pepper sprayed the protesters who remained at the site.
#DelaneyHall #ICEout #labourmovement #migrantworkers #solidarity
In 1970 thirty-eight workers died on the job every day. In 2025 fourteen still die daily despite the doubling of the US workforce. The AFL-CIO estimates that 712,000 lives have been saved since 1971.
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/mazzocchi-osha-worker-safety-whistleblowers
1970-2024 (2026?)
https://www.whistleblowers.gov/wb50
Tony Mazzocchi was instrumental in reshaping workplace health and safety — a feat made possible by empowering workers themselves to expose hazardous conditions. Recent attacks on OSHA underscore the importance and continued relevance of his work.
In 2024, #SpaceX was named one of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health’s “Dirty Dozen,” after reporting from #Reuters showed the #Starbase site had hundreds of injuries, many of them not reported to #OSHA.
https://nationalcosh.org/DD24
The National App Workers Union (la Union Nacional de Trabajadores por Aplicación, UNTA) members stopped work May 15th in five states and #MexicoCity They were joined by app workers in at least 15 countries who held similar stoppages during peak hours.
https://labornotes.org/unta-trabajadores-aplicacion
(English translation)
https://labornotes.org/unta-work-stoppage
#appworkers #Capitalism #gigeconomy #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #strikes
Al grito de, “No somos socios, somos trabajadores”, cientos de trabajadores de todo México que prestan servicios de transporte y reparto a través de las plataformas digitales realizaron un paro laboral de dos horas el 15 de mayo para exigir tarifas justas, un fin a las desconexiones injustificadas, y, en última instancia, un acuerdo colectivo de trabajo con gigantes de las aplicaciones como Uber, Didi y Rappi. La Unión Nacional de Trabajadores por Aplicación y de Reparto de México (UNTA) dijo que el paro laboral incluyó a trabajadores en cinco estados y en la Ciudad de México.
Peter Riley
