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Peter Riley

The new wage lifts two-thirds of the workforce above Mexico’s family #povertyline, & above Mexico’s #minimumwage of about $1.71 per hour. A proposed nationwide shift to a 40-hour workweek without a reduction in pay (Mexico’s workweek is currently capped at 48 hours) would also mark a significant advance.

labornotes.org/2025/04/unmoved

#Mexico #GeneralMotors #LaborMovement #organize #autoworkers #Solidarity Silao #Guanajuato #unions SINTTIA

Labor Notes · Unmoved by Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage HikeMexican General Motors workers in the Silao, Guanajuato, factory complex clinched record raises after staring down company scaremongering about tariff threats. “They said, well, we’re offering 6 percent,” said Norma Leticia Cabrera Vasquez about management’s offer at bargaining. “We knew they were going to show up with that, but we said, ‘We still have weeks to negotiate, so we won’t let that intimidate us,’” said Cabrera Vasquez, who worked at the plant for 15 years, and now serves as a leader of the union’s Women’s Department.
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Kim Perales

"Farm workers called the short-handled hoe el cortito (short one) or El brazo del Diablo (devil’s arm) since it forced them to toil hour after hour bent over weeding or cultivating, causing crippling back & skeletal injuries.

Chavez’s chronic back pain was caused, in part, by using the hoe when he was a migrant farm worker. It was banned in CA on April 17, 1975, during J Brown’s 1st term as governor as the result of a campaign led by M Jourdane *ATTY with CRLA."
-UFW

Cesar Chavez with the hoe & farmworkers toiling in the field:
#Immigrants#Unions#USPol
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Voting is Your POWER

The unions in the state of #utah have received more than double the signatures needed for their referendum. This referendum would put it on the ballot to reverse the just passed law that banned collective bargaining in the state.

There is one caveat though, there’s another rule that it has to reach a certain threshold in at least 15 of 29 counties in the state. #union #unions #unionstrong #labor #workers #work #economy #utpol

abc4.com/news/politics/inside-

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Peter Riley

labornotes.org/2025/04/chicago

Labor Notes · Chicago Teachers Win Greener SchoolsThe Chicago Teachers Union won a tentative agreement in December that, for the first time, addresses climate and environmental justice demands—making healthy green schools a priority in our city. We achieved this breakthrough even while broader contract negotiations stalled. Finally, in April, we ratified the full agreement, which also includes big raises and lower class sizes. Our environmental justice victory stems from a collaboration between teachers and environmental activists to expose urgent problems facing us and our students—and link those problems to larger struggles.
#Chicago#educationworkers#Labormovement
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MikeDunnAuthor

California's senator Scott Wiener proposed a bill that would've let wildfire victims sue the oil companies for causing the climate crisis.

Guess who teamed up with the Big Oil execs to defeat the bill?

Unions.

Specifically the unions representing oil industry workers. In other words, the workers collaborated with their class enemies: their bosses.

I'm not opposed to unions. I've been a union organizer for decades. But goddamn, these blockheads are acting just like Mr. Block (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bl). They somehow forgot the first rule of labor: the boss is NOT your friend. Be suspicious. Don't trust them. And sure as hell don't collaborate with them to help enrich them even further, especially not on your backs, nor in ways that further destroy the planet.

"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.... Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth."
-- preamble to the constitution of the IWW

That last line, added to the original 1905 preamble to the IWW constitution in the late 1980s, might sound a bit vague and "crunchy." But it was an attempt to acknowledge that some types of work simply shouldn't exist. That's not to say those who currently work in those industries (e.g. Fossil fuel extraction) should be thrown under the bus. Everyone should be allowed to do something productive that they enjoy. And everyone should have all the material necessities to live a safe secure and meaningful existence. But saving the planet from climate collapse will certainly require many changes in the types of work that are available. Coal mining, for example, has been on the decline for years because there is so little left in many regions that it's not profitable for the bosses to continue paying miners to mine ît anymore.

In a sane and compassionate world, we'd provide these workers with free Healthcare housing, UBI, and retraining so they could transition to some other productive endeavor. And union leaders would recognize that the interests of their members are much more closely aligned with, and linked to, those of the rest of the working class. (Continued burning of oil will contribute to more climate disasters, more wild fires, and possible the loss of their own members' lives or homes).

calmatters.org/politics/2025/0

en.m.wikipedia.orgMr. Block - Wikipedia
#workingclass#LaborHistory#IWW
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Laffy

" #Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by #Trump

Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court. A new service will offer more individualized representation." #UnionStrong

nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/poli

Members and supporters of the American Federation of Government Employees union rallied outside NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston last month.
The New York Times · Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by TrumpBy Rebecca Davis O’Brien
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Peter Riley

#Union news and an interview with Alexis Vassiley author of the new book Striking ore 'The Rise and fall of union power in the #Pilbara'. Striking ore focuses on the workers themselves including their agitating for hard won breakthroughs in pay, conditions and safety.

3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episo

#FIFO (Fly in Fly out - casual workers)
#labormovement #mineworkers #organize #solidarity #unions
#communityradio #3CR

3CR Community Radio · Striking Ore: The Rise and fall of union power in the PilbaraThis episode with host James Brennan brings you union news and an interview with Alexis Vassiley author of the new book Striking ore 'The Rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara'. Striking ore focuses on the workers themselves including their agitating for hard won breakthroughs in pay, conditions and safety.
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