Solidarity Ale! SF's Anchor Brewing workers plan to turn closed company into a co-op (therealnews.com)
Forget ‘quiet quitting’ — ‘loud laborers’ are killing workplace morale. Here’s how to spot them (www.cnbc.com)
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Nearly 4m fewer UK working days in past year due to strike action, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Resolution Foundation report says much of industrial action ‘fuelled’ by public sector workers’ anger over falls in real-terms pay
New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable (www.ign.com)
IGN can exclusively reveal the details from IATSE's 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions Survey, where the organization asked hundreds of video game developers about their pay, benefits, and working conditions.
Can the UAW Strike Help It Expand to Non-Union Plants? (prospect.org)
Bandcamp Editorial Director: “Fuuuuuck Bandcamp United” (www.404media.co)
"Bandcamp United is privileged tech workers cosplaying as Amazon warehouse workers," he said.
New At 6:30: Anti-Union Propaganda (www.levernews.com)
‘Where There Are Scabs, There Is Violence’—That’s Why Scabs Are Illegal in Two Canadian Provinces (labornotes.org)
Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has vigorously condemned violence on the picket lines in Michigan, Massachusetts, and California—laying the blame on management for using replacement workers, or as we usually call them in the labor movement, scabs....
Google Illegally Cut Contract Staffers Who Worked on AI, Union Alleges (www.bloomberg.com)
The Alphabet Workers Union accused Google and Accenture of violating federal labor law, which prohibits retaliation against employees for organizing
Labor Unions Are Industrial Policy (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Hiroshima garbage-collection firm attracts women with free day care to find success (mainichi.jp)
HIROSHIMA -- After a garbage collection company in this west Japan city made efforts to improve its working conditions and go beyond a male-oriented atmosphere, women, including many with children, now represent around 40% of its workforce.
Stressed Out by Mass Layoffs, CD Projekt Staff Have Finally Set Out to Unionize — So What’s Next? (www.ign.com)
CD Projekt staff are unionizing in response to sweeping layoffs. IGN speaks to workers at the Cyberpunk 2077 developer to find out what's next.
SAG-AFTRA Pushes For Another Video Game Strike (insider-gaming.com)
SAG-AFTRA is now targeting the gaming industry, pushing for strike action in a bid to secure better compensation for 'gaming performers'.
Pluralistic: Bill Willingham puts his graphic novel series "Fables" into the public domain (pluralistic.net)
This was the culmination of a string of wage-thefts in which the company misreported his royalties and had to be dragged into paying him his due. When the company "practically dared" Willingham to sue ("knowing it would be a long and debilitating process") he snapped.
Former BioWare employees sue for better severance after layoffs (www.gamesindustry.biz)
A group of former BioWare employees are suing the studio for better severance pay after they were laid off in August.
The small pro-labor news site that has the Biden White House’s ear (www.washingtonpost.com)
Workers stage Japan's first strike in decades over department store sale (www.reuters.com)
Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration (www.businessinsider.com)
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How the Government Can Help Build Industrial Unions (inthesetimes.com)
When M.D.s Go Union (prospect.org)
Strikes spiked in July, as workers seek higher wages to keep up with inflation (www.washingtonpost.com)
Toronto-area workers must make at least $25 an hour for a living wage, report says. Here’s how that compares across Ontario (www.thestar.com)
The Ontario Living Wage Network released its annual report on Monday, examining the cost of living in 10 regions across the province.
Amazon CEO says 'it’s probably not going to work out' for employees who defy return-to-office policy (apnews.com)
Record number of teachers quit for mental health reasons in 2021 (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Education ministry officials say long working hours is one of the factors behind the rise.
Education staff could strike in September - union (www.bbc.com)
