#workers' rights

[allthecanadianpolitics]

N.W.T. teachers will see their pay rise by 12 per cent over the next couple years.

On Wednesday, the N.W.T. government and the N.W.T. Teachers' Association announced they had finally reached a deal on a new collective agreement that's been accepted by both sides.

The announcement came after almost 11 months of negotiating.

Teachers will see their pay increase by five per cent, retroactive to Aug. 1, 2023, followed by an additional three per cent increase as of Aug. 1 of this year. On Aug. 1, 2025, their pay will increase by four per cent.

Teachers will also see their per diems increase for duty travel, and won't have to use sick leave if they're on medical travel. [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

#cdnpoli #Northwest Territories #education #workers' rights

[charlesoberonn]

#spiderverse #animation #workers' rights #important #tweet #😔

[tieflingkisser]

CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months

The union is part of the wider nationwide union, OZZ IP, and welcomes members from across the Polish gamedev industry to join its "support network" and "get a platform to exchange experiences and know-how with your peers". It does not cover CDPR staff working in Vancouver, though, or those not on a Polish contract.

#cd projekt red #the witcher #cybrerpunk 2077 #cdpr #news #workers' rights #poland

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Paul Blest at More Perfect Union:

Thousands of workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee have voted to join the United Auto Workers, defying an all-out union-busting effort from the state’s political leaders and marking a key victory for the United Auto Workers in their renewed effort to organize the South and non-union plants.

Unofficial results tallied Friday showed that after three days of voting, more than two-thirds of workers voted to join the UAW. The win in Chattanooga is the first successful attempt to organize a non-union automaker in decades and comes after multiple failed attempts to organize the plant, including in 2014 and 2019. More than 4,300 workers were eligible to vote this week.  “I can't explain it. It's not like the first times,” Renee Berry, who has worked at the Chattanooga plant for 14 years and through two prior facility-wide votes, told us in the lead-up to the election. “The first few times was hell…now it's like we can roll our shoulders back, because we got it.”  Volkswagen is the world’s largest auto company by revenue, and until today, every one of its plants around the globe has been unionized except for one.

"This is going to be in history books down the road. This is huge—forever huge,” Robert Soderstrom, a worker at the plant, told More Perfect Union. “People recognize for the first time in a long time, on a mass scale, that there's got to be some changes. And some of the power and stuff that's gone to the corporate world needs to come back to us little guys.” The victory in Tennessee continues a winning streak for the UAW, which negotiated record contracts at the Detroit Three of Ford, GM, and Stellantis last year following a lengthy “stand-up” strike. After passing the contracts, UAW President Shawn Fain announced a $40 million effort to organize non-union U.S. plants, largely based in right-to-work states like Tennessee and owned by auto companies based in Europe, Japan, and South Korea, as well as EV manufacturers like Tesla and Rivian. 

Since launching that new effort, more than 10,000 autoworkers around the country have signed union cards, according to the UAW. Earlier this month, workers at a Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama became the second group to file for an election, which will be held from May 13 to 17. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and the state Chamber of Commerce have forcefully opposed the unionization effort, claiming it would hurt Alabama autoworkers—who, even before the pandemic, were making less than they did in 2002 when adjusted for inflation. The same dynamic has played out in Tennessee. Gov. Bill Lee, who denounced the last unsuccessful union campaign in 2019, said it would be a “mistake” for workers at the Chattanooga plant to unionize and boasted about the state’s “right-to-work” law. 

🚨🚨 BREAKING:🚨🚨 Workers at the Volkswagen (VW) plant in Chattanooga have voted yes to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) after 2 failed attempts in 2014 and 2019. #UAW #VWChattanooga #1u

#Unionizaion #Unions #Labor #Labor Unions #Workers' Rights #VW Chattanooga #Chattanooga Tennessee #US News #Chattanooga #UAW #United Auto Workers #Volkswagen #VW #UAW Strike

[iww-gnv]

HARRISBURG, Pa. - When those rare 3-day weekends pop up on the work schedule, it's an office-wide celebration! Well, what if that was every week? A new bill to create a four-day work week is about to be introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature. It would require businesses with more than 500 employees to reduce their work week from 40 to 32 hours a week. However, less work hours will not mean less pay! A Good Day Philadelphia poll showed most people support the 4-day work week, and Rep. G. Roni Green plans to introduce the legislation soon. The Philadelphia lawmaker says the 40-hour work week was put into place 85 years ago, and no longer fits the needs of today's society.

#news #us news #usa news #pennsylvania #pennsylvania news #worker rights #workers' rights

[the-uncanny-dag]

Every person working in creative fields deserves to be compensated fairly for their work. Yes, even the ones whose creations you think are bad. This is not up to discussion

#saw some twitter socialists try to be pithy & cunty about people making marvel movies & big mouth not deserving wages #or some shit like that i'm not rechecking #idk if you're aware but if you say that then you're not a fucking socialist. you're a larper #wga strike #writers strike #workers' rights

[newyorkthegoldenage]

On December 27, 1928, Governor-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt named Frances Perkins the new Commissioner of Labor, the first woman to hold the job. An advocate for workers' rights, she helped put New York in the forefront of progressive reform by expanding factory investigations, capping the workweek for women at 48 hours, championing a minimum wage and unemployment insurance, and working to end child labor. In 1933, President Roosevelt appointed her Secretary of Labor, a post she held for 12 years. She was the first woman ever to hold a Cabinet position.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1920s #Frances Perkins #workers' rights #women in government #Dec. 27 #27 Dec. #vintage NYC #working women

[justinssportscorner]

Andrea Hsu at NPR:

Hours before their final game of the season, the Dartmouth men's basketball team has voted to join a union, becoming the first unionized college sports team in the U.S. and opening many thorny questions about the future of college sports. Led by Dartmouth forward Cade Haskins and guard Romeo Myrthil, the 15 players announced their intent to unionize last September, arguing that the business of college sports is different that it was a few years ago. Tuesday's vote was 13 to 2 in favor of joining SEIU Local 560. "Today is a big day for our team. We stuck together all season and won this election," wrote Haskins and Myrthil in a statement. "Let's work together to create a less exploitative business model for college sports." The election was held over the objections of the Trustees of Dartmouth College, which last week filed a motion asking the National Labor Relations Board to halt the election pending further review. The NLRB denied that request. On Tuesday, Dartmouth asked the NLRB to overturn the decision by the agency's regional director to hold the election in the first place, setting the stage for a protracted legal fight.

Are college athletes employees?

At the heart of this election was the issue of whether college athletes should be considered employees and therefore have to the right under federal labor law to form unions and collectively bargain over pay and benefits. In the student newspaper, Haskins and Myrthil said they believe they should be compensated the same as other student employees. Being paid for the time they spend on the sport "would alleviate the need for second jobs and enhance our experience as part of the Dartmouth community," they wrote. A union would also allow them to negotiate better health care benefits, to cover out-of-pocket costs incurred as a result of injuries sustained while playing for the school, the players argued.

In a ruling last month, NLRB regional director Laura Sacks concluded that an employer-employee relationship does exist between the Dartmouth basketball players and the college. She found that the players perform work that benefits their school through things like alumni donations and publicity, that the players are compensated for that work in nonmonetary ways, and that Dartmouth exercises a lot of control over that work. Her ruling paved the way for Tuesday's election.

Dartmouth College's men's basketball team is the first college basketball team to be unionized, as they voted to join SEIU Local 560.

See Also:

Daily Kos: Dartmouth men's basketball team makes history by becoming first US college sports team to unionize

#Unionization #Unions #NLRB #College Sports #College Basketball #Men's College Basketball #SEIU Local 560 #SEIU #Dartmouth College #Dartmouth Big Green #Labor #Workers' Rights

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Doña Maria, enslaved for 72 years by three generations of a family in Brazil

‘She does not recognize herself as a slave, nor do they see themselves as enslavers,’ says the labor inspector who rescued the 85-year-old domestic worker in Rio de Janeiro. Her case reflects the legacy of three centuries of buying and selling Africans

Doña Maria is 85 years old, and she has lived all her life in her bosses’ house in Río de Janeiro. She is a servant, and for three generations, she was passed down from father to son. The woman’s world was turned upside down on the first Monday in May, when a stranger told her that she would not return to the family with whom she had lived since age 13. Her universe seemed to collapse. She didn’t understand. Distressed, she implored the stranger to let her go back: “The level of submission was clear when she began to say: ‘I have to go back because I have to feed Mrs. Yonne, I have to take care of her, I have to bathe her. If I don’t go back, she’s going to die. She felt absolutely responsible for the life of her employer,” says Alexandre Lyra, the labor inspector who rescued the woman after 72 years working for the Mattos Maia family without a salary or vacation time. Her entire world existed within the four walls of the home. Never in Brazil had such a prolonged case of contemporary slavery been discovered.

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#brazil #brazilian politics #politics #racism #workers' rights #anti racism #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[seriousbusinessforhumans]

Feb 2021

In 2019 it found that Qatar’s intense summer heat is likely to be a significant factor in many worker deaths. The Guardian’s findings were supported by research commissioned by the UN’s International Labour Organization which revealed that for at least four months of the year workers faced significant heat stress when working outside.

Qatar continues to “drag its feet on this critical and urgent issue in apparent disregard for workers’ lives”, said Hiba Zayadin, Gulf researcher for Human Rights Watch. “We have called on Qatar to amend its law on autopsies to require forensic investigations into all sudden or unexplained deaths, and pass legislation to require that all death certificates include reference to a medically meaningful cause of death,” she said.

those stadiums were built in blood

#workers' rights #qatar #world cup 2022 #middle east #mena #fifa #fifa 2022 #fifa world cup #sports #2021 #2020s #international politics #migrant workers #fuck fifa

[karlmarxmaybe]

The new Marvel show Secret Invasion used AI to make the intro I need you all to be FUCKING ANGRY at this

"Like many people, Selim says he doesn’t “really understand” how the artificial intelligence works, but was fascinated with the ways in which the AI could translate the sense of foreboding he wanted for the series. “We would talk to them about ideas and themes and words, and then the computer would go off and do something. And then we could change it a little bit by using words, and it would change.”"

These idiots

"Method Studios did not respond to Polygon’s request for comment about how exactly it designed the sequence (the staff for the credits includes producers, designers, and an AI technician)."

The intro doesn't look like pure garbage which means some of these artists have been tweaking and fixing it and they sure as fuck won't be properly compensated for it, with the excuse of "AI made it, not you". This is the next step in Marvel and Disney's inhuman exploitation of visual artists.

"In the case of Secret Invasion, Selim says he was excited by what Method Studios brought to the show: “It felt explorative and inevitable, and exciting, and different.”"

Inevitable.

[ID: the "and I am Iron Man" meme from Avengers: Endgame. Thanos has a label on his head that says "AI" and his subtitles read "I am inevitable." Iron Man has a label on his head that says "SFX ARTISTS" and his subtitles read "And I... am... unionizing." /End ID]

Support the writers' strike. It's the picket line of the fight against AI bullshit right now. And FUCK MARVEL AND DISNEY

#fuck ai art #anti ai art #fuck ai #sfx artists #workers' rights #wga strike #disney #mcu #capitalism

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Some 65,000 unionized hospital workers in Ontario have been awarded a pay increase of six per cent over two years in an arbitration decision.

Workers represented by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions — CUPE (OCHU-CUPE) and SEIU Healthcare — will have their pay increased by three per cent per year for two years, with a boost to health and dental benefits also awarded, according to the union.

The union represents groups including personal support workers, porters, food servicing and technicians in both pharmacy and X-Ray.

The same workers were given a retroactive pay increase of 6.25 per cent over three years for the period they were capped by the now-cancelled Ford government wage restraint legislation.

“Today’s arbitration decision will lift the spirits of frontline hospital workers who are struggling with impossible workloads in a staff retention crisis,” OCHU-CUPE president Michael Hurley said in a statement. [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

#cdnpoli #healthcare workers #workers' rights #Ontario

[river-oceanus]

My workplace, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, is less than two weeks out from cutting more than 260 jobs from our already sparse workforce. This will have massive negative effects on our students, as well as those who are to lose their jobs.

This has been a result of systemic and long-term underfunding of our sector, and an unwillingness among NZ universities to work with the government to improve the sector.

We need action, and we need it very soon. Our union has launched a petition to ask the government to provide emergency funding to delay these decisions and give us time to work on improving the sector as a whole. Mine is not the only university in this country facing this issue. We need change, and we need it soon.

Please. If you're living in Aotearoa New Zealand, sign the petition linked below. If you're not, please share it as far and wide as you can. People's livelihoods depend on action being taken ASAP.

Sign the petition: Provide tertiary institutions a funding boost to enable good long-term staffing decisions.

#TEU #workers' rights #Aotearoa #New Zealand #Te Herenga Waka #Victoria University of Wellington #VUW #SaveVUW

[the-bibrarian]

The artist Bisk creates sculptures of monsters with garbage in the streets of Paris, where they accumulate due the collectors’ strike. 

#<3 #paris #street art #strike #workers' rights #protests #france #réforme des retraites #up the baguette

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Paul Blest at More Perfect Union:

The Federal Trade Commission voted Tuesday to ban new noncompete agreements for all workers and make existing noncompetes null and void for everyone except senior executives. These agreements are used to restrict 30 million American workers from changing jobs or starting their own businesses due to claims that they could use “trade secrets” in their new roles.  Noncompete agreements can restrict job mobility based on geographic area (i.e., a doctor joining a new practice within 50 miles of their old one) or a time period after leaving the position (anywhere between several months to more than a year). They have been banned in multiple states in the past few years. 

But the FTC has issued a uniform ban that will cover hundreds of millions of workers following a 180-day period for for-profit companies to enter into compliance. More than 26,000 comments were submitted on the rule, more than 25,000 of which supported a noncompete ban, FTC staff said Tuesday.  The FTC estimated that the new rule will increase workers’ wages by up to $488 billion over 10 years, which FTC staff said would mean a $524 increase in annual wages for the average worker. The FTC also estimated that the rule would lead to more than 8,500 new businesses per year.   “Right now workers are stuck in place because of these noncompetes,” FTC chair Lina Khan told More Perfect Union in an interview about the rule. “So even if they get a better job opportunity with higher wages, with better benefits, they can't actually switch jobs, which is bad for those workers. It's also bad for other workers who won't have the opportunities that are not being created because of these noncompetes.”

Five states have passed bans on noncompetes, not including New York, where lawmakers passed a ban last year that was then vetoed by Gov. Kathy Hochul. After Oregon banned noncompete agreements in 2008, researchers found, average hourly wages for all workers were boosted by up to 3 percent; the same analysis found that low-wage workers subjected to noncompetes saw a substantial negative impact on their wages.  The final rule differs from the proposal in that “senior executives,” those in a “policy-making position” making more than $151,000 per year, will still be subjected to noncompete agreements signed before the effective date of the new rule.

Since announcing the proposal in early 2023, the FTC’s rule has come under fire from the business lobby. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said before Tuesday’s meeting that it will file a lawsuit to block the proposal as soon as Wednesday. A top Chamber official said earlier this week that the rule “opens up a Pandora’s box where this commission or future commissions could be literally micromanaging every aspect of the economy,” Bloomberg reported.  But the FTC argues that noncompete agreements are “an unfair method of competition” that affect both high- and l0w-wage earners. In the medical profession, nearly half of all physicians are subject to noncompete agreements, according to the American Medical Association, which backs the effort to end the practice. (The FTC estimated that the new rule will result in “$74-$194 billion in reduced spending on physician services over the next decade.”)

The Federal Trade Commission voted to ban competition-stifling noncompete agreements except for senior executives.

#Noncompete Agreements #Business #FTC #Federal Trade Commission #Workers' Rights

[iww-gnv]

The recent wave of worker strikes have ushered in a new era: the “summer of strikes,” also known as hot strike summer. Employees at UPS, Amazon, Starbucks and entertainment companies across Hollywood have walked off the job or threatened to do so over the last few months in an effort to pressure their bosses to improve conditions and pay them more. More than 200 strikes have occurred across the U.S. so far in 2023, involving more than 320,000 workers, compared with 116 strikes and 27,000 workers over the same period in 2021, according to data by the Cornell ILR School Labor Action Tracker. “Workers have more bargaining power given the strength of the economy,” said Harry Katz, a professor at Cornell University.

#news #hot strike summer #summer of strikes #labor organizing #labor unions #unions #union #labor #labor rights #worker's rights #workers' rights #worker rights