Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant Workers

from #WorldOutlook
March 12, 2025

"The following is a statement by the #AmazonLaborUnion – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (#ALU-IBT) Local 1 defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The #ALU represents #Amazon workers at the company’s giant JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

The #ALU statement sets a good example of how the labor movement needs to treat immigrant workers: as fellow workers, as brothers and sisters.

This question has become urgent as the Trump administration has escalated raids, arrests, and deportations of immigrants under the guise of expelling “foreign criminals” from the United States. "

https://world-outlook.com/2025/03/12/amazon-labor-union-defends-immigrant-workers/

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#Teamsters #news

The #ToolbeltGeneration is here FTW

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-many-in-gen-z-are-ditching-college-for-training-in-skilled-trades

WHAT WON’T CHANGE IN TEN YEARS?

Don’t be like me.

Do that, kids.

Among other horrible things, this an attack on #US #labor. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is often specified in collective bargaining agreements as the default mediation service. Gutting it may delay current mediations and future ones, giving management new ways to delay contract enforcement. Shameful.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/

What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.

Be ready, #Utah. You'll need to spread the word and find a signature gatherer in your location or even start gathering signatures yourself.

#utpol has limited the time and expanded the number of locations that need signatures to make it very difficult to put a referendum on the ballot.

This is for public labor unions' ability to collectively bargin in our state.
#labor #laborunion #UEA #Education #PublicEmployees

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/03/14/public-unions-begin-fight-overturn/

In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.

2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."

https://www.wecb.fm/in-2019-iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-nearly-6-years-later-all-predictions-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

To all REI members, please use your opportunity to vote for REI's board of directors.

The union for REI workers is asking that we vote "Withhold" against all of the corporate-picked nominees.

https://www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elections

Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future
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For years, Washington, D.C., was insulated from many of the economic forces that decimated many older U.S. cities. Now, as Elon Musk’s mass layoffs shake everything from employment to real estate, the region faces the prospect of decline.
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-dc-trump-musk-federal-government-cutbacks-gloomy-future?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Prof. Sarah Bond gave a great talk to a packed house at #ISAWNYU tonight about her new book:

Bond, Sarah E. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.

https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawlib-bond-strike

Keep on fighting!

SAG-AFTRA actors' strike set to continue, as union warns of "alarming loopholes" for "AI abuse" in latest proposal

https://www.eurogamer.net/sag-aftra-actors-strike-set-to-continue-as-union-warns-of-alarming-loopholes-for-ai-abuse-in-latest-proposal

Pandemie-Ursprung: Hielt das Kanzleramt BND-Einschätzung zu Corona zurück?

Laut Medienberichten ging der Auslandsgeheimdienst BND in der Pandemie mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit davon aus, dass das Coronavirus seinen Ursprung in einem Labor in China hatte. Doch das Kanzleramt soll die Einschätzung zurückgehalten haben.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bnd-corona-ursprung-wuhan-labor-bundesregierung-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

IF the sort of friendship that the "Tangerine Palpatine" expects us to just accept, I.E. being that we take a %25 hit on Steel and Aluminum, then all those free loading Corporations that pay next to no tax here in Australia should now have a slick new 'Orange Wealth Mobility' exit fee of about oh, I dunno' maybe $25 in the 100 for all profit that demonstrably goes off shore, for all companies here that are headquartered in the US . . starting with Tesla.

#KneeJerk #Auspol #Trade #Tariff #Labor #Liberal #Tax #excise #maga

edit: grammar

Among developed nations, Japan ranked the third worst place for working women for the 2nd year in a row.

#Japan #Asian #OECD #Women #Labor #Jobs #Career

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/03/ddbce535faf7-japan-ranks-3rd-worst-place-for-working-women-in-2024-intl-ranking.html