TOMORROW
#LABOR & COMMUNITY MASS ACTION
Northwest Detention Center
1623 East J St #Tacoma WA 98412
Thursday March 27 5:30pm
In support of detained #Immigrant #Union #Workers
#ShutdownNWDC #LaResistencia
#EvergreenResistance

"There is widespread reporting of hundreds of grant cancellations at the National Institutes for Health (NIH)—with significantly more coming. This is in the context of ongoing funding freezes and chaotic layoffs of its expert staff, most of whom have PhDs in the fields for which they oversee review and funding processes."

~ Pamela Herd

#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #research #NIH #healthcare
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https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizing-science-the-national

Another aspect of the housing crisis:

For newly qualified teachers & nurses living in a flat share is often the only viable option; across England in around half of Council areas, a one-bedroom flat is unaffordable on their pay.

If you want to retain newly qualified staff, they need to be able to move from a model of student accommodation (a shared house) to something reflecting their privacy & welfare needs... we need better (affordable) housing for key workers.

Let's fucking go!

#UnionStrong, baby!

Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/video-game-workers-in-north-america-now-have-an-industry-wide-union-130024730.html?src=rss

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on The Courts
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The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant Workers

from #WorldOutlook
March 12, 2025

"The following is a statement by the #AmazonLaborUnion – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (#ALU-IBT) Local 1 defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The #ALU represents #Amazon workers at the company’s giant JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

The #ALU statement sets a good example of how the labor movement needs to treat immigrant workers: as fellow workers, as brothers and sisters.

This question has become urgent as the Trump administration has escalated raids, arrests, and deportations of immigrants under the guise of expelling “foreign criminals” from the United States. "

https://world-outlook.com/2025/03/12/amazon-labor-union-defends-immigrant-workers/

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#Teamsters #news

Over 90% of Americans demand a "right-to-disconnect" law which would protect them from out-of-hours work communication

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/over-90-of-americans-demand-for-a-right-to-disconnect-law-which-would-protect-them-from-out-of-hours-work-communication

Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers

A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing.

https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-13-amazon-uses-arsenal-of-ai-weapons-against-workers/

At the root of many contemporary economic problems (the UK's productivity puzzle, deterioration in the terms & conditions of employment) is one simple issue:

Managers too often see workers not as a 'resource' to be invested in & nurtured for the long-term good of the organisation, but rather as a cost which can be reduced for short-term gain while the longer term consequences will be fixed (in some way) by technology.

The de-humanisaton of economics is a major problem!