In Belgium, trade unions have won the automatic indexation of salaries to the cost of living.
When the cost of living rises, so do salaries.
The terms of the indexation are negotiated by sector. This month, supermarket & bank workers set to get a pay rise.
#UnionWin
https://www.lacsc.be/page-dactualites/2024/09/03/indexation-des-salaires-dans-les-cp-202--216-et-310-a-partir-du-1er-septembre-2024
"There's nothing inevitable about another round of harsh cuts — it is a deliberate decision to avoid confronting the powerful."
Solid debunking of the 'there is no alternative' narrative many are peddling across Europe.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/labours-austerity-is-a-choice-starmer-pain
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Lors du 1er Mai 1890, à Paris, les militants de gauche portent un triangle rouge :
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Une pointe pour 8h de travail,
une pour 8h de loisirs,
une pour 8h de repos.
"Triangle rouge : les origines ouvrières d’un symbole antifasciste" https://www.solidaire.org/articles/triangle-rouge-les-origines-ouvrieres-d-un-symbole-antifasciste via @Lignedescience
#antiFascisme #luttes #travail #triangleRouge #triangleInversé #triangle #1erMai #syndicalisme #syndicats #Paris
Ces dernières semaines, de nombreuses personnes ressortent le triangle rouge pour marquer leur opposition à l’extrême droite. Ce symbole est celui de l’antifascisme depuis que les nazis l’ont utilisé pour « marquer » les prisonniers politiques dans leurs camps. Mais son origine est plus ancienne…
Democracy Now did a great segment with Google workers who were arrested during sit-ins against Project Nimbus about Project Nimbus, the No Tech for Apartheid movement, and their motivations and experiences. Definitely worth checking out if you want to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz8Y2NSPpXo
#Slovakia: #CareHome fires #union reps after they expose abusive conditions, #malpractice and cover-ups
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-europa-denounces-union-busting-in-slovakian-care-home/
#unions #CoverUp #UnionBusting #whistleblowing #CSS #GPA #WageTheft #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar #corruption
UNI Europa denounces attacks on the rights of long-term care workers in Slovakia who face retaliation – even unjust firing – after they blew the whistle on patient abuse and organised their workplace. The fired workers at the care home ‘CSS – DOMOV JAVORINA’ in Trenčín region, Slovakia, should be reinstated and management should stop
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L’ancien patron de Frontex rejoint le Rassemblement national pour les européennes
Fragilisé par plusieurs enquêtes, Fabrice Leggeri, haut fonctionnaire du ministère de l’intérieur français, avait dû quitter la tête de l’agence en avril 2022.
Fragilisé par plusieurs enquêtes, Fabrice Leggeri, haut fonctionnaire du ministère de l’intérieur français, avait dû quitter la tête de l’agence en avril 2022. Il a annoncé dimanche qu’il serait en troisième place sur la liste de Jordan Bardella aux élections européennes de juin.
Impressive street art in Brussels… "The Ark" by François Schuiten.
https://www.altaplana.be/en/dictionary/arche-l
📍: Brussels, Belgium
#streetphotography #streetart #brussels #brussel #bruxelles #mural
Arche (L') [Photo by Heleen Rodiers] L'Arche is a fresco made by François Schuiten and Alexandre Obolensky in corporation with Library Brüsel Flagey at the corner chaussée d'Ixelles and rue Maes in Brussels and is part of the borough's Herteken Elsene/Redessine Ixelles project . The corner is decorated with the bow of an enormous packet boat. Ixelles, Atrium and Brussels Capital are partners of this event.
Michael Veale
Free Software Foundation Europe
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Mediapart
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