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Hundreds of Woolworths warehouse staff prepared to strike until Christmas over pay and working conditions
Hundreds of Woolworths staff have walked off the job indefinitely at distribution centres in Victoria and New South Wales, demanding better pay and working conditions.
“We call Scrooge”! Hundreds of Harrods workers preparing to strike over Xmas bonus and more!
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Harrods workers balloting for Xmas strike - Freedom News
Luxury department store woes mount as workers oppose relentless overwork, stagnant wages and stripped-back benefits ~ Francis Kingston ~ With the luxury department store facing serious questions about its handling of Mohamed Al Fayed’s sexual abuse, Harrods workers are preparing to strike over Christmas. Hundreds of retail, restaurant, kitchen and cleaning staff are balloting for
We’re Taking on America’s Most Anti-Union Company and We’re Going to Win
I work at one of the most profitable companies in the world, yet I’m barely able to get by. In August 2023, I got hired as a warehouse associate at an
‘Tis the Season to Organize Amazon
During peak season, when Amazon’s holiday rush hits maximum velocity, the company’s finely tuned machine becomes surprisingly fragile. For workers seeking to organize, the high-stakes holiday months may be their strongest opportunity to exert leverage.
Interview with Sultana Hossain from the Amazon Labor Union in the USA - LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
"We were dying," says Sultana Hossain, describing the conditions that led thousands of Amazon employees in New York City to begin organising into a trade union. Initially, their union was independent and had no backing from anyone else -- an...
A National Movement to Organize Amazon Takes Off
The Teamsters are spinning off momentum from recent organizing fights to new battle fronts across Amazon’s logistics chain. A group of 100 warehouse workers at DCK6, an Amazon delivery station in San Francisco, marched on company managers October 2 demanding voluntary recognition rather than filing for a National Labor Relations Board-supervised election. In the Teamsters’ strategy to organize the logistics behemoth by a thousand cuts, this is the first time that warehouse workers—rather than delivery drivers nominally employed by a subcontractor—have demanded recognition.
Filings Reveal Amazon Spent Over $14 Million to Bust Union in 2022 Alone
Even within the booming anti-union consulting industry, this is an unusually high amount of spending.
Peter Riley
