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Ghana: privatization supporters continue push despite failures to lower prices and improve services. A study led by OECD found that privatized electricity had 23% higher costs.
Cyprus: "An Injury to One is an Injury to All!" Entire staff strikes after management terminates employee after forming union and asking for a raise.
Canada: custodial and maintenance staff approves strike, many without wage increase after a decade seeing 30% inflation. “Many of our members work two or three jobs. Many live on the edge of poverty.”
Toronto: union of nearly 30,000 municipal employees approves strike due to “years of stagnating wages amid rising inflation.”
US: Unions say privatizing postal services in Europe have led to reduced services, increased prices, job losses, and cut off rural communities
South Korea: government sentences union activists to prison after threatening to break strike with commandos and special forces
France: unions rally against far-right attack at film screening, beating audience members, stabbing one
Macron says Trump ‘can restart useful dialogue’ with Putin
Macron says Trump ‘can restart useful dialogue’ with Putin
popular resistance will only come from concerted collective action, which is something few people in the U.S. have any experience with. The big exception are union members.
India: Samsung management plans on locking factory gates to prevent strikers from taking over factory
Canada: LifeLabs employees strike - "we are not going to allow their profit margins to increase on the backs of the patients and our members who work at LifeLabs"
UK: bus drivers approve strike after management intimidates employees into driving despite safety concerns, suspend those who refuse
New Zealand: Minister won't meet with Council of Trade Unions, country’s largest democratic organisation. "she doesn’t want to hear our view, she has a different view – pro-employer and anti-worker"
Greece: nationwide strikes against outsourcing and use of contracts rather than making employees permanent
Federal workers vs Elon Musk: I’ve never seen a billionaire carry the mail, put out a forest fire, make sure people get their Social Security checks, answer a phone call from a suicidal veteran
South Africa: half of strikes in 2024 were wildcat strikes
Solidarity with Belgian unions: The hard-right scapegoats women, minorities, and the most vulnerable. They use anger against elites as a tool to divide, yet when in power, they serve those same elites
Oregon: hospitals threaten health care for nurses who do not agree to their conditions. "Providence executives - who earn millions in salaries - should focus on settling a fair contract."
