Over one quarter billion on #strike over Indian government's pro-employer attempts to bust unions and worsen working conditions
Danish company accused of mafia tactics: “Expect to be shot in the head if you don’t leave the #union.”
https://danwatch.dk/en/danish-flower-giant-accused-of-mafia-methods-against-employees-in-turkey/
#Deregulation, and #UnionBusting do not appeal to me. I will not be voting for these #Democrats either. If we have #abundance then #billionaires can pay their taxes, and #corporations can adhere to #regulations
> #Democrat.s are embracing the #abundanceMovement, which promises to rein in Big #Government, Big #Labor and other #leftWing staples, saying they impede #housing, public transit and #greenenergy projects
Four days after posting record profits over £1 billion, NEXT closed its only unionised factory in Sri Lanka – and fired 1,416 workers via WhatsApp. This is union-busting – and it must end. Demand that NEXT reopens the factory:
https://secure.waronwant.org/page/174083/action/1
#uk #capitalism #racism #unionbusting
EDEKA Hieber wieder vor Gericht
Erst Mitte Mai verlor der Edeka Unternehmer Hieber (Müllheim) vor dem Arbeitsgericht Freiburg. Hieber hatte einem Mitarbeiter der einen Betriebsrat gründen wollte verhaltensbedingt gekündigt. Dies hatte vor Gericht keinen Bestand.
Noch am selben Tag, als das Arbeitsgericht dem Arbeitnehmer recht gab, folgten erneut eine fristlose und eine ordentliche Kündigung: der Kläger habe vor Gericht gelogen.
Am 08. Juli fand vor dem Arbeitsgericht, unter Vorsitz von Richter Mohn, eine erste Güteverhandlung statt, aber der Kläger will keine Abfindung, er will arbeiten. Deshalb wurde für Oktober eine mündliche Hauptverhandlung vereinbart.
Für @RDL war ich beim Gütetermin und sprach anschließend mit Rechtsanwalt Jörissen (Freiburg), der den klagenden Arbeitnehmer anwaltlich vertritt.
Will Edeka-Händler weiterhin Betriebsrat verhindern?
Erst am 15. Mai entschied das Freiburger Arbeitsgericht die Kündigungen die der Edeka Händler Hieber (Müllheim) gegenüber einem Mitarbeiter, der gerne einen Betriebsrat gegründet hätte, ausgesprochen hatte, vollumfänglich aufzuheben.
Noch am selben Tag wurde er erneut gekündigt: fristlos und auch ordentlich.
Am Dienstag, 08. Juli, ab 10:00 Uhr wird in einem Gütetermin das Arbeitsgericht Freiburg darüber verhandeln. Der Termin ist öffentlich (Habsburgerstr. 103, 2.OG, Saal II).
Zur Vorgeschichte und dem Urteil vom 15. Mai hat @RDL berichtet:
https://rdl.de/Arbeitsgericht_K%C3%BCndigungsschutz_Hieber_Edeka
#hieber #edeka #unionbusting #gewerkschaft #Betriebsrat #kundigung #kündigung #mullheim #müllheim #baden #sudbaden #markgraflerland
#verdi #arbeitsgericht #Freiburg #freiburgimbreisgau
#samstag #FreiburgImBreisgau
1,700 #California workers, including 500+ #Teamsters, left in lurch to be laid off as major CA alcoholic #beverages distributor for 2,500 beverage brands, quickly winds down operations and ditches state to consolidate operations in home state of #Texas.
Many #CaliforniaWines stuck in middle have been reaching out to former competitor #supplychains to keep footholds in state with many millions of potential customers.
While #RNDC tries to paint picture that Democrat run #WestCoast state's more complex #taxation and regulatory framework was responsible, the main factor is bad biz failures at #Republic National Distributing Company, who lost many key #exclusive deals with big brands like #TX made Tito's #vodka, #Herradura #Tequila, #HighNoon and #JackDaniels whiskey etc. #RNDC has been known for poor worker relations, #unionbusting antics and had mismanaged much market share after awkward acquisition of CA's once prominent Young's Market #YMCO Distro arm.
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/rndc-leaving-california/
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/rndc-layoffs-20421592.php #Business #Booze
Today in Labor History July 1, 1983: Copper miners began a strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Arizona. During the strike, company-owned railroad bridges were set on fire and strikers smashed windows of scab vehicles. Governor Bruce Babbitt repeatedly sent in state police and National Guardsmen to suppress and ultimately crush the 3-year-long strike. Replacement workers then voted to decertify the union in the largest mass decertification in U.S. history. 35 locals of 13 different unions representing Phelps-Dodge workers were all decertified. Within a couple of years, their profits skyrocketed 15-fold to $420 million per year. This was one of the most effective and historically significant union-busting campaigns of the post-WWII era, along with the PACTCO strike, and Reagan’s mass-firing of the air traffic controllers in 1981.
The people who clean up your #TikTok feed are starting to #fightback
#Contentmoderators say they’re exposed to #graphicviolence, #psychologicaltrauma, and #unionbusting tactics, and now a larger #movement is brewing.
"four hours of real rest—if we’re lucky. Two hours to get home, two hours to return—what’s left for sleep, recovery, or time with our families?" Casino #management fails to break #union election.
Mehrere Bundesländer darunter #Niedersachsen - haben eine Initiative zur Stärkung der #Mitbestimmung gestartet. Richtig so. Betriebsräte müssen entschiedener gegen #UnionBusting geschützt und ihre Mitspracherechte gestärkt werden. Die #Bundesregierung muss nun liefern!
Mehr dazu: https://niedersachsen.dgb.de/-/GLCh
Außer Betrieb
#MuratAtas arbeitete beim Turnschuhhändler #FootLocker und war #Betriebsratsvorsitzender, dann wurde er gekündigt. Atas glaubt, dass das Unternehmen seine Arbeit verhindern wollte. Oft bleiben solche Fälle von sogenanntem #UnionBusting in Deutschland im Dunkeln
Von #NinaScholz und #SebastianFriedrich
https://www.taz.de/!6095219
SEIU President David Huerta, injured and arrested by ICE in Los Angeles yesterday, after trying to block ICE agents from arresting people at a worksite.
“What happened to me is not about me; This is about something much bigger. This is about how we as a community stand together and resist the injustice that’s happening. Hard-working people, and members of our family and our community, are being treated like criminals. We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice. And we all have to stand on the right side of justice," said Huerta.
Today in Writing History May 22, 1859: Author Arthur Conan Doyle was born. He was most famous for his character, Sherlock Holmes. However, he was also a physician and a staunch supporter of compulsory vaccination. He wrote several articles denouncing the views of anti-vaxxers. But he was not particularly successful as a doctor. So, as he sat around waiting for patients to show up, he took to writing stories. Perhaps his most well-known book was The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901). But it was his 1914 Holmes story, The Valley of Fear, that piqued my interest. It is about the Molly Maguires, like my book, Anywhere But Schuylkill, and involves some of the same characters (but with different names). Unfortunately, Doyle relied heavily on the testimony of America’s first celebrity cop, Allan Pinkerton, as his original source and, consequently, makes many of the same historical errors as so many others who’ve written about those events.
You can read my article on Pinkerton, and his war on unions here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/
You can read my article on the Molly Maguires here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #mollymaguires #Pinkertons #union #strike #irish #immigration #police #unionbusting #writer #author #books #fiction #novel @bookstadon
Today in Labor History May 18, 1979: An Oklahoma jury ruled in favor of the estate of atomic worker Karen Silkwood. Kerr-McGee Nuclear Company was ordered to pay $505,000 in actual damages and $10 million in punitive damages for negligence leading to Silkwood’s plutonium contamination. On appeal, the court reduced the settlement to a pitiful $5,000, the estimated value of her property losses. In 1984, the Supreme Court restored the original verdict, but Kerr-McGee again threatened to appeal. Ultimately, Silkwood’s family settled out of court for $1.38 million and the company never had to admit any wrongdoing.
Silkwood first started working at Kerr-McGee in 1972. She joined the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union and participated in a strike. After the strike, her comrades elected her to the union’s bargaining committee. She was the first woman to attain that status at Kerr-McGee. In this role, one of her duties was to investigate health and safety issues. Not surprisingly, she discovered numerous violations, including exposure of workers to contamination. The union accused Kerr-McGee of falsifying inspection records, manufacturing faulty fuel rods and other safety violations. After testifying to the Atomic Energy Commission, Silkwood discovered that her own body and home were contaminated with radiation. Her body contained 400 times the legal limit for plutonium contamination and she was expelling contaminated air from her lungs. Her house was so contaminated they had to destroy much of her personal property.
Later, she decided to go public with documentation proving the company’s negligence. She left a meeting with union officials in order to meet a New York Times journalist. She brought a binder and packet of documents supporting her allegations with her. However, she never made it, dying in a suspicious car crash. The documents were never found. Some journalists believe she was rammed from behind by another vehicle. Investigators noted damage to the read of her car that would be consistent with this hypothesis. She had also received death threats shortly before her death. However, no one has yet substantiated the claims of foul play.
Today in Labor History May 16, 2007: Long before the current wave of union organizing at Starbucks, Baristas at the Starbucks in East Grand Rapids announced their membership in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union. Starbucks was and is notorious for their poor treatment of workers. The NLRB slapped them with numerous anti-labor violations and forced them to settle the Grand Rapids dispute in October. In 2024, the Supreme Court heard the case of seven union workers from a Memphis, Tennessee Starbucks who were fired in retaliation for joining the union, in violation of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rules.
Bei Hieber, einem großen Betreiber von #EDEKA Märkten in Südbaden, wurde ein Mitarbeiter entlassen, der einen #Betriebsrat gründen wollte. An diesem Donnerstag fand am Arbeitsgericht #Freiburg die Verhandlung statt. Reiner Geis von ver.di hatte uns gegenüber anschließend erklärt:
"Die Kündigung ist hanebüchen." Das sah dann offenbar auch das Gericht so und gab dem Kläger in vollem Umfang recht. Das Arbeitsverhältnis wird nicht aufgelöst, weder durch die ordentliche, noch die fristlose Kündigung. Die Hausverbote werden aufgehoben. Die Firma muss den Kläger weiter beschäftigen und trägt die gesamten Kosten des Verfahrens. #UnionBusting https://rdl.de/Arbeitsgericht_K%C3%BCndigungsschutz_Hieber_Edeka
“They Actually Had a List”: #ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark #LaborRights Case
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly #ProUnion worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
Noah Hurowitz
May 5 2025
"An immigration raid in western #NewYork on Friday targeted a group of immigrants involved in a landmark statewide effort by #FarmWorkers to #unionize.
"On Friday morning at around 9:30 a.m., federal agents in unmarked cars and bearing no agency insignia pulled over a bus in Albion, New York, about 35 miles west of Rochester, and took 14 people of Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms into custody. All of the detainees, who hailed from Mexico and Guatemala, were year-round employees of Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms, a family-owned business in nearby Kent, New York, which has been locked in a multiyear battle to prevent workers from unionizing.
"The company is one of five agricultural businesses that, together with a state growers’ association, have tried for years to overturn or chip away at New York’s 2019 #FarmLaborLaw. The law enshrined protections for the right of #farmworkers — whether seasonal or year-round — to seek union representation.
" 'This was strange because they actually had a list of most of the workers on the bus.'
"Several of the workers taken into custody on Friday have been active in efforts to unionize year-round employees, including at least one who has spoken publicly in favor of joining the United Farm Workers of America, according to Elizabeth Strater, director of strategic campaigns for #UFW, the storied labor union.
" 'We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,' said Strater.
"Most of the workers detained on Friday hail from #Mexico or #Guatemala.
"The raid did not appear to be a broad sweep but rather a targeted enforcement aimed at specific people, according to sources who have been in contact with the families and spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity to candidly discuss a sensitive legal situation."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/05/ice-raid-farm-labor-union-new-york-ufw/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/xLMYr
starbucks union busting
#mayday #protest in #washingtondc followed by joining the #picketline in #solidarity with #workers against #unionbusting by The Occidental
