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❝ Canada’s temporary foreign worker programmes are a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery, a UN expert said today, urging the country to do more to protect workers and offer a clear pathway to permanent residency for all migrants. ❞

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/09/canada-anchor-fight-against-contemporary-forms-slavery-human-rights-un

(Video segment in the post above this in the thread.)

#NoOneIsIllegalOnSlOnStolenLand #Capitalism #WorkersRights

Perhaps most important to the union is that it be allowed to represent workers at 10 electric vehicle battery factories, most of which are being built by joint ventures between automakers and South Korean battery makers. The union wants those plants to receive top UAW wages.” #WorkersRights #UnionStrong https://apnews.com/article/auto-workers-general-motors-stellantis-ford-strike-0c41761e174236151a29cc698f5dc7d5

“About 146,000 U.S. auto workers are set to go on strike this week if General Motors, Ford and Stellantis fail to meet their demands for big pay raises and the restoration of concessions the workers made years ago when the companies were in financial trouble.” #WorkersRights #UnionStrong https://apnews.com/article/auto-workers-general-motors-stellantis-ford-strike-0c41761e174236151a29cc698f5dc7d5

UN releases report on: Slavery, Canadian-style.

Migrant workers, their employment tied to one employer, are subject to multiple vectors of abuse.

Agricultural workers, home care workers, and more.
Out of sight, out of mind.

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Oftentimes, these [inspections] are pre-announced so so that means employers know exactly when they are coming in so what often happens then is that they ask workers to clean the workplace and living their accommodations so they looks perfect and sometimes these workers are sent away so that they do not complain to the labor in specs right so l've heard this this from so many workers so the reality is different from what the government is claiming.
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https://youtu.be/Bhhg4Xesglc

(Don't even try your "this is not my Canada" shit with me.)

#CanadianShame #UNReport
#canpoli #slavery #MigrantWorkers #WorkersRights #Canada #CouldntHappenHere #NoOneIsIllegal

‘The Strikes Act is the nadir of the Conservatives’ wretched record on living standards’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/the-strikes-act-is-the-nadir-of-the-conservatives-wretched-record-on-living-standards

#StrikesAct
#TUC
#Tories
#StrikesMinimumServiceLevelsAct
#UN
#WorkersRights
#UNWorkersRightsArm
#InternationalLabourOrganisation
#ILO
#EuropeanTradeUnionConfederation
#ETUC
#FireAndRehire
#ZeroHoursContracts
#ZeroHours
#Unions

Manitoba Liquor Workers Defeated Government And Their Employer

The struggle against Conservative austerity and reckless privatization continues.

by Adam D.K. King
September 4, 2023

#Manitoba #labour #labor #strike #strikes #workersrights

https://www.readthemaple.com/manitoba-liquor-workers-defeated-government-and-their-employer/

‘They Treat Us Worse Than Animals’: Working Without Water at Amazon

"Exclusive: Amazon bosses forced staff at the company's Bristol warehouse to work without access to drinking water and toilets — the latest example of the company's hyper-exploitative employment practices."

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/09/they-treat-us-worse-than-animals-working-without-water-at-amazon

#Amazon #abuse #workersRights #humanRights #labor #capitalism

#Capitalism #CapitalismKills #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #NoMoreBillionaires #TaxTheRich #livingwage #workersrights #RaiseTheWage #climatechange #climatecrisis #fossilfuels #oilcompanies #banfossilfuels #carbon #heatwave #corporategreed #pollution #contamination

After an entire 23 year career of getting 0-2% raises in our union contract intermittently... to now be seeing 15%, 20%, 30% raises being demanded, and received for the term of the contract is: a little terrifying honestly. My union is currently in negotiations with the Employer/BCGov. I have no idea what to expect. I dare not hope for anything. But I do. Thank god for Unions and Collective Bargaining.

#AffordabilityCrisis #Inflation #CanPoli #Union #Labour #BCPoli #LabourRights #WorkersRights #Unionize

My partner's Half Price Books store just unionized (🎉) but the company in bargaining with other stores has been supremely odious. First they tried to pretend annual pay cuts were reasonable compensation. Then they shamelessly admitted to acting out of greed and to seeing loyal long-time employees as disposable. If you like shopping at HPB or just care about #workersrights , learn more and how you can help the employees here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwxkDvXscsD/

“According to a 2018 Gov Accountability Office report, more than 1/2 of work-related fatalities 4 children in the US happen in the agriculture sector…1 child employee dies roughly every 3 days. A separate study, from the National Children’s Center for Rural & Agricultural Health & Safety, found that 33 children r injured working on farms every day” #ChildLabor #WorkersRights https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/sep/06/how-children-of-12-toil-in-colorado-san-luis-valley-farms

#workers keep the world going, not #CEOs.

#Capitalism #CapitalismKills #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #NoMoreBillionaires #Corporatism #NoMoreCEOs #workersrights #livingwage #RaiseTheWage #unionize #unionizeworkers #unions

A view from the President of the #Alberta Federation of #Labour on #LabourDay

"The province’s workers have a plan for the global energy transition. Premier Smith offers only fear and spin."

#labor #unions #JustTransition #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #workersrights

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/09/03/Alberta-Workers-Future-Denial-Blocks-View/

Millions more workers would be entitled to overtime pay under a proposed Biden administration rule

https://apnews.com/article/work-labor-overtime-pay-biden-ba1613a766bd45c4f15650bb7d361063

#OvertimePayExpansion #WorkersRights #BidenAdministration #LaborPolicy #FairPay #EmploymentLaw #Politics #News

"We are burnt out, stretched thin, and fed up after years of the pandemic and chronic short staffing," Datosha Williams, a service representative at Kaiser Permanente South Bay, said Monday. "#Healthcare providers are failing #workers and patients, and we are at crisis levels in our hospitals and medical centers." #WorkersRights https://www.commondreams.org/news/kaiser-nurses

“Dozens of #healthcare #workers were arrested in Los Angeles on Mon after sitting in the street outside of a Kaiser Permanente facility to demand that providers address dangerously low staffing levels at hospitals in CA & across the country” #WorkersRights https://www.commondreams.org/news/kaiser-nurses

#monopoly was always intended to represent and teach the futility of #capitalism. It still does.

#capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #NoMoreBillionaires #TaxTheRich #livingwage #workersrights #RaiseTheWage

Oxfam: Maryland among best states for workers, but there’s room for improvement

Maryland ranked 14th overall in the 2023 Best States to Work Index. California ranked first; North Carolina ranked last.

Oxfam’s index takes into account worker-friendly policies in three areas: wages, worker protections and the right to organize.

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2023/09/04/oxfam-maryland-among-best-states-for-workers-but-theres-room-for-improvement/
#news #maryland #labor #WorkersRights #unions

“Workers at Seattle-based, Anheuser-Busch InBev-owned Elysian Brewing have joined the Teamsters union, making them one of the few unionized craft breweries in the U.S.” #UnionStrong #WorkersRights
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/seattle-elysian-brewing-employees-join-teamsters/

Over the next decade, about 40 percent of middle-class older workers will be pushed into or near poverty when they reach retirement age
#laborday #seniorworkers #workersrights #retirement https://progressive.org/op-eds/labor-days-forgotten-older-workers-cook-ghilarducci-230901/