#Victoria’s new #antiprotest #laws to be #watereddown amid pushback from #humanrights groups & #unions. #auspol
Victoria’s new anti-protest laws to be watered down amid pushback from human rights groups and unions
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Josh Cullinan, Secretary of #RAFFWU Retail and Fast Food Workers Union talks about the no vote in the upcoming eba negotiations with BWS & Dan Murphy's.
#Palestine is Union business speech by Arthur Rorris from South Coast Labour Council (link is external) at the #Sydney Palestine Rally.
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/bws-dan-murphys-no-vote-palestine-union-business
3CR Community Radio · BWS & Dan Murphy's No Vote & Palestine is Union BusinessWe talk with Josh Cullinan, Secretary of RAFFWU the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union about the no vote in the upcoming eba negotiations with BWS & Dan Murphy's. We follow with Palestine as Union business with a speech by Arthur Rorris from the South Coast Labour Council at the most recent Sydney Palestine Rally.
Industrial disputes & news - 13 August 2025
Townsville City Council; Crown; QLD #teachers; KONE; Cairns Council; QLD #nurses & #midwives; CBH; QLD firies; Qantas; Komatsu; Opal; NSW nurses & midwives; Getinge; CFA; Brophy; Glencore & more
(Thanks Sarah Missen )
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-13-august?
Disputes Report · Industrial disputes & news - 13 August 2025
"T organization that represents doctors-in-training at the University of Colorado has filed a complaint with state labor officials alleging that the school retaliated against it over its quest for collective bargaining rights."
https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/11/university-of-colorado-medical-residents-collective-bargaining/
The Colorado Sun · Trainee doctors allege the University of Colorado retaliated against them over union demand
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The decision cleared the way for teams put in place this year by #Musk to reclaim “high-level IT access” to govt databases, Judge Julius Richardson wrote, over the objections of a number of #labor #unions who had sued, arguing the move violated federal #privacy laws.
…Richardson said the…case mirrored those in a lawsuit involving #data that #SCOTUS weighed as an #emergency application….In that case, SCOTUS…allowed #DOGE to continue sifting through the records “in order…to do their work.”
unions are what make us united and give us solidarity; we need to act as one to fight against the onslaught of capitalism
"[Starbucks] is estimated to have spent some $240 million on union busting. It’s even more appalling given that the new CEO, since starting in September, has been paid approximately $96 million and commutes to work from Southern California to Seattle on a company jet. He’s being paid 10,000 times what the average worker is making: around $30,000 a year for a barista."
#NathanJRobinson, 2025
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/starbucks-is-everything-wrong-with-american-capitalism
www.currentaffairs.orgStarbucks Is Everything Wrong With American CapitalismBad labor practices, bad coffee, bad food, bad vibes. The faceless corporate behemoth shows exactly how coffee shops shouldn’t operate. We deserve better.
They’re coming for “working folk” & #unions.
Cutting of an ave of organizational #resistance.
FEMA’s says to Union…
“…#fema ’s collective bargain agreement had been terminated, ending a nearly 10-yr contract.
The EPA & the US Citizenship & #immigration Services have also canceled their collective bargain agreements. The agencies’ actions come after Vet Affairs, fed govt’s 2nd-largest agency, announced plans Wed to end nearly all of its contracts w/fed unions.”
apple.newsFEMA joins other federal agencies in canceling union contracts — The Washington PostThe cancellation of the contracts is part of a broad effort by the Trump administration to strip federal workers of union protections.
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…Most of #VeteransAffairs’s 400,000 #workers are also represented by the AFGE, which has sued the #Trump admin for staffing cuts.
Everett Kelley, AFGE’s national president, said the decision was “another clear example of retaliation.”
The Center of American Progress analyzed #federal #employment data in May & found that ending #CollectiveBargaining agreements at more than a dozen #FederalAgencies would affect 4 out of 5 #FederalWorkers.
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The #EPA & the US Citizenship & Immigration Services [#USCIS] have also canceled their #CollectiveBargaining agreements. The agencies’ actions come after #VeteransAffairs, the federal government’s second-largest agency, announced plans last Wednesday to end nearly all of its contracts with federal #unions.
#Trump #law #LaborLaw #contracts #FederalAgencies #FederalWorkers
#FEMA & at least 3 other #FederalAgencies have canceled their #contracts with #unions to comply with #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder stripping many federal #workers of union protections….
On Friday, FEMA’s acting administrator David Richardson sent a memo to American Federation of Government Employees Local 4060, the #union representing the agency, saying that FEMA’s #CollectiveBargaining agreement had been terminated, ending a nearly 10-year #contract.
#law #LaborLaw
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/11/fema-union-contracts-canceled/
The Washington Post · FEMA joins other federal agencies in canceling union contracts
"Government control inevitably follows government privilege, and, as in the Fascist or Communist countries, privileged unionism has become in effect a powerful arm of the State apparatus for controlling the labor force and the economic system as a whole. Rather than representing their members, union leaders have been coopted into the power elite, there to serve as transmission belts for keeping the workers under the control of the various governmental “guidelines”" — Murray N. Rothbard, Left and Right.
#economics #rothbard #workers #capitalism #unions
"A union representing workers at the CDC said the incident was not random and 'compounds months of mistreatment, neglect, and vilification that CDC staff have endured.' It demanded federal officials condemn vaccine misinformation, saying it was putting scientists at risk."
AP News · Union wants statement against COVID vaccine misinformation after CDC shootingA Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer. The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident, had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Saturday. The American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2883, is calling for heightened security and a strong statement condemning vaccine misinformation from federal officials.
"The issue is not the right to form associations. It is whether or not any association of private citizens should be granted the privilege of resorting with impunity to violent action. It is the same problem that relates to the activities of the Ku Klux Klan." — Ludwig von Mises, Human Action.
https://mises.org/library/book/human-action
#economics #mises #liberalism #workers #capitalism #misesquotes #unions
Mises InstituteHuman Action | Mises InstituteThe masterpiece first appeared in German in 1940 and then disappeared, only to reappear in English in 1949. It was a sensation, the largest and most scientific
One more post, and then I'll re-toot some of the posts from earlier today and last night (yes, we started early). HT to @anubis2814 for this brilliant post!
"Richard Scarry created the most #solarpunk world you can imagine and Its left us feeling frustrated as to what we could have without #capitalism. I don't want a jet pack I want an apple car. #IWW #unions "
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> Members of the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, the National Association of Government Employees, the National Federation of Federal Employees, the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United and the Service Employees International Union will no longer have the labor protections negotiated by their organizations.
#veterans #military #DonaldTrump #MAGA #unions #aflcio #unions #labour #union #labor
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VA to End Bargaining Agreement Contracts with Most Unions
> The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday it was ending collective bargaining agreements with most federal unions -- a move that affects roughly 80% of its total workforce.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/08/07/va-end-bargaining-agreement-contracts-most-unions.html #veterans #military #DonaldTrump #MAGA #unions #aflcio #unions #labour #union #labor
Military.com · VA to End Bargaining Agreement Contracts with Most UnionsThe Department of Veterans Affairs said the move supports an executive order from President Donald Trump that canceled collective bargaining in some federal agencies.
#HulkHogan and the unvaveling of worker solidarity… Def was NOT a cool dude on so many levels, this being just one of them. #Labor #Union #Unions #WWE #solidarity https://theconversation.com/hulk-hogan-and-the-unraveling-of-worker-solidarity-262178
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"The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday it was ending collective bargaining agreements with most federal unions -- a move that affects roughly 80% of its total workforce.
Members...will no longer have the labor protections negotiated by their organizations."
Military.com · VA to End Bargaining Agreement Contracts with Most UnionsThe Department of Veterans Affairs said the move supports an executive order from President Donald Trump that canceled collective bargaining in some federal agencies.