Workers at embattled smelter face last payday amid calls for certainty
By Kelsey Reid
As what could be their last payday looms, an alliance of unions says more should be done to ensure stability for 200 workers at Australia's only manganese smelter.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-15/liberty-bell-bay-workers-wage-uncertainty/106566512
#MiningandMetalsIndustry #AdministrativeLaw #Unions #KelseyReid
CFMEU had 'hit list' of site workplace inspectors, inquiry hears
By Tobi Loftus
The commission of inquiry into Queensland's CFMEU branch has heard inspectors lost the freedom and ability to do jobs as they saw fit after Annastacia Palaszczuk came to power in 2015.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-15/queensland-cfmeu-commission-of-inquiry-hit-list/106567730
Governments - both conservative and liberal - have spent decades passing anti-worker policies and failing to enforce any remaining ones meant to support workers' rights. If these gig economy digital Sweatshop's are ...
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> to be exposed, outlawed, and punished
... the only way to do it is through large-scale union organising, using tactics that hurt predatory gig platforms, not workers. Including helping workers join and establish platform coops.
"On January 31 2026, the unions (who had 'endorsed' the so-called general strike in Minneapolis) told the workers they claim to represent that they must go to work and could not join in any strike action. As expected, the unions prefer the bosses' rules to the workers' demands. The unions' betrayals to the working class doesn't begin with unions acting as flagrant class collaborationist state organs. Rather, they begin in the workplace by establishing recognition for capitalist management rights and promoting contractual mediation rather than the class struggle."
Friday April 17 6.30pm
Discussion led by the #IWW and the #PanAfricanWorkersAssociation
at Holywell Trust on Bishop Street Derry
Saturday April 18th 1pm
at the Education & Empowerment Centre, 54 King Street, Belfast.
Both events are open to everyone with an interest in the rights of #migrantworkers.
https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/iww-discussions-on-rights-of-migrant-workers-in-belfast-and-derry
#Belfast #Derry #iww #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions
THE rights of migrant workers in the North of Ireland will be front and centre of a discussion taking place in both Derry and Belfast this week. Migrant workers are often in some of the most precarious positions in the labour market. While economies depend upon their labour, they are routinely subjected to poverty wages, labour rights abuses and health and safety violations. The recent immigration law changes proposed by the UK government will only push migrant workers deeper into uncertainty ma
Thousands of long-term care workers on #strike: "If you’re working full-time, you should be able to afford rent and groceries, but some people have to live out of their cars"
https://globalnews.ca/news/11799102/cupe-strike-long-term-care-nova-scotia/
#strikes #NovaScotia #union #unions #Canada #CUPE #Halifax #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar
Thousands of long-term care workers on strike: "If you’re working full-time, you should be able to afford rent and groceries, but some people have to live out of their cars"
Thousands of long-term care workers on strike: "If you’re working full-time, you should be able to afford rent and groceries, but some people have to live out of their cars"
LAUSD schools to remain open after tentative agreements with unions avert strike
📰 Original title: LAUSD strike is off, schools to open Tuesday with tentative union deals in place
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