#labor struggle

[connorthemaoist]

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"Anakbayan LA stands with the nine Jollibee workers at Journal Square who were illegally terminated for organizing for higher wages and better working conditions. We stand with the Jollibee workers in other stores across the US and in the Philippines who are facing similar exploitation such as: wage theft, worker mistreatment, and chronic understaffing by the company.

The workers demand: REINSTATEMENT, BACKPAY, AND A PUBLIC APOLOGY!

-@anakbayanla on Instagram

[working-class-wizard]

Emergency Temporary Teachers$300 per day Oakland Unified School District is in current negotiations with our teachers union. The District n

The teachers in Oakland are striking with overwhelming community and student support and THIS is what Oakland Unified School District is doing. Trying to get scabs for DOUBLE NORMAL PAY.

So, if you feel like filling this out, maybe a few times, or even better if someone could just make bot...

[afromaterialism]

[lovegodsmashtyrants]

Jack Shao watched as his young co-worker climbed onto the roof of their four-story factory and threatened to jump.

“When Shao joined G.Credit in 2013, he considered it his lucky break. He earned about $500 per month and had full weekends off, which he would spend in Dongguan with his wife and 5-year-old son. He would cook them dishes from their hometown — spicy stir-fried pork, braised fish with chili peppers — and accompany them on long walks in the park.

“Life was really good — even my relationship with my colleagues was good,” he said.

Then in mid-December, things took a turn for the worse. G.Credit's chairman Liu Chaoqiang called a few dozen high-ranking employees together, Shao among them, and warned them of impending difficulties. The factory was deeply in debt.

He tried to raise their spirits by showing them a clip from a Chinese wartime drama. Shao remembered one line best: ‘It's not that we weren't brave,’ one character said. ‘It's that we ran out of bullets.’

[lovegodsmashtyrants]

"Hundreds of South Asian labourers took to the streets in Dubai on Tuesday to protest unpaid wages and working conditions, prompting the emirate to mobilise riot police. Local reports said the striking workers ripped down corrugated iron fences at a development belonging to Emaar Properties and even came onto the streets to block traffic near the Dubai Mall. The sight of protesting labourers is jarring in a country where demonstrations and unionising are illegal and could easily lead to deportation. “How much money can we send home now?” one worker at the scene, told the Wall Street Journal. “We are fed like animals.” The Journal reported that the workers were protesting the company's decision to cut pay citing a loss of productivity and also because they were being fed expired food."

[humanoidhistory]

Elvis Costello plays a benefit for striking seamen, May 14, 1988. (via)