Her union has been going from workplace to workplace to talk with workers about the need for “a general strike pledge to protect workplaces and ...
CHICAGO—“May Day is our day. It belongs to all working people,” declared Fred Redmond, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, at a virtual town hall of labor leaders hosted by People’s World on Thursday, April 16.#labor #afl-cio #essentialworkers #internationalsolidarity #internationalworkersday #internationalism #laborhistory #labormovement #mayday #maydaystrong #peoplesworld #ufcw
Labor leaders tell People’s World town hall: ‘May Day is our day’
... general strike on May 21, the company has filed for an injunction with the court to prevent illegal occupation and facility damage. Since ...
Labor Day became a national holiday in Korea, but a 22-year-old administrative interpretation denies substitute holidays to essential workers, while Samsung faces a potential 30 trillion won strike loss.#LaborDayKorea #substituteholiday #essentialworkers #SamsungElectronicsstrike #POSCOdirectemployment #MinistryofEmploymentandLabor #TradeUnionAct #semiconductorexports
Labor Day Becomes Holiday, But 22-Year-Old Ruling Denies Substitute Leave
Quite the wake-up call.
~44% of #paramedics say they are either planning to change their profession or retire in the next five years, according to a survey by the paramedics’ union.
~17% of the survey respondents said they will continue working as paramedics.
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2026/02/27/half-paramedics-to-quit-montreal/
#firstresponders #essentialworkers #montreal #polMTL #polQC #MTLpoli #QCpoli #CAQASTROPHE
About 44 per cent of paramedics say they are either planning to change their profession or retire in the next five years, according to a survey by the paramedics’ union. Only about 17 per cent of the survey respondents said they will continue working as paramedics. The union representing more than 950 Urgences-santé paramedics, who […]
The Left’s Shameful Hypocrisy in the Government Shutdown: Anti-Worker Politics Disguised as Progressivism
The current government shutdown has exposed something deeply disturbing about the state of so-called progressivism in America. As the federal government teeters on the brink of chaos, there are voices, voices that claim to be on the left, calling for the shutdown to continue. They present it as some kind of moral or political strategy, a way to "punish" the administration or make a political statement. But what they fail—or refuse—to acknowledge is the human cost of this so-called […]
“At a time when federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay their bills, healthcare premiums are skyrocketing, and SNAP is at risk, Trump’s celebration of his marble bathroom was so tone deaf it seems likely to make the history books as a symbol of this administration.”
#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #SNAP #GovernmentShutdown #FederalWorkersFurloughed #EssentialWorkers #LettersFromAnAmerican
SHOCKING: In the first two days of 2025 the CEO of Shell earned more than the average NHS nurse earns in a year.
One saves lives. The other destroys lives.
Anyone else think this is just wrong?
#GreenpeaceUK #WealthInequality #TaxWealthNotWork #NHS #SaveOurNHS #EssentialWorkers #PolUK
Maybe we don't need a general strike in #uspol Maybe we just need a strike of as many workers as possible who are directly supporting the top 1% (or even 0.1%) in the US If every nanny, housekeeper, cleaner, driver, trainer, executive assistant, etc currently supporting an obscenely rich person went on strike... I think shit would change
CPH Daily Bulletin 10/14/2025
#California’s #IncarceratedFirefighters to see ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed
https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/10/prison-firefighter-new-laws/
#Firefighters #MassIncarceration #wages #Wildfires #MinimumWage #EmergencyResponse #EssentialWorkers #Prison #CalFire #SadeElhawary
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