The Air Canada strike situation is an unmitigated disgrace.

First of all, getting no pay for mandatory work while the plane is on the ground is fucking insane, and it apparently being industry standard practice (which I had no idea of before today) makes it so much worse. Unions explicitly agreeing to it in the past doesn't make that any less true; I dearly hope those unions had damn good reasons at the time, because any union worth its salt would know that this is textbook wage theft, and sends the message that this type of labour is not valuable. A message that is, of course, a lie, because if it wasn't valuable it wouldn't be mandatory!

The other prong of this hellscape is that forcing people back to work should never be allowed, in any industry, in any context. Causing economic damage is precisely the purpose of strikes; that's what motivates the company to give the workers what they want. If the company is so big and central to the economy that a strike will significantly damage the entire economy, then that's not a reason to force people back to work; it's a reason to break up the company!

#airCanada #airCanadaStrike #airlines #antiTrust #business #canada #canPol #canPoli #CUPE #strike #union #unions #workers #workersRights

Other arrangements could be made for Air Canada customers, this was an unnecessary move by the federal government.

"The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want -- hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky in the release."

#Women #AirCanada #Union
#Canada

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BREAKING: Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work

Air Canada flight attendants have officially begun their strike after failing to reach a deal with the airline, the Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Saturday morning.

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Union und SPD planen den Generalangriff auf den Datenschutz: Bürgerkonto-Pflicht, Altersverifikation, verpflichtende ePA, massiver behördlicher Datenaustausch – dazu ein Opt-out-Prinzip, das faktisch jeden zur gläsernen Person macht. Wer profitiert? Wirtschaft, Militär, Forschung. Wer verliert? Unsere Grundrechte. Unfassbar!👇

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#union #csu #cdu #spd #datenschutz #fail

Schwarz-rote Koalitionsgespräche: Daten vernetzen, Datenschutz schleifen

Union und SPD wollen Bürgerkonten und Altersverifikation zur Pflicht machen. Und sie träumen von Fusionsreaktoren und KI-Gigafactorys.

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behave accordingly.

#tech #union #UnionStrong

"Da erklärte die AfD die Grünen zum angeblichen Hauptfeind unserer Gesellschaft und alle machten mit. Man kann mich gerne korrigieren, aber noch nie in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik haben die Grünen den Bundeskanzler gestellt. Aber es wird immer so getan, als wenn sie seit 30 Jahren an der Macht wären und niemand sonst. Der Tonfall etwa aus CDU und CSU gegenüber den Grünen unterscheidet sich nicht von dem der AfD. Das unterhöhlt die Demokratie, das ist zersetzend, weil sich die Parteien so koalitionsunfähig machen."

Sehr treffen formuliert von Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk.
Dieser Feldzug gegen andere Parteiein, die fest auf dem Boden der Demokratie stehen, ist ein Irsinn, der die Union kein Stück voran bringen wird!

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#cdu #csu #union #söder #merz #grüne #afd #bsw

#Canada #union #rail

Maths courtesy of DT Cochrane , Senior Economist for Canadian Labour:

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#Canada #union #rail 2/5

Over the last three years CN and CPKC have distributed over $8.2 billion to their owners.

🧵 Before you even think about insulting the workers during the rail lockout/ impending strike, take a look at this: #Canada #union

CN and CPKC's profit margin was 33% in 2021-23. In the 2010s, it was 18%. 1 /2

Megacorp execs were interviewed about the #WGA strike & were quoted saying their goal was to "break the WGA," and to drag things out "until #union members start losing their apartments and homes"

After corporate counsel reminded the execs of *labor laws*, an update was released saying that actually the execs did not want to make workers homeless in retaliation for exercising labor rights because that would violate #labor laws so its all a big misunderstanding

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I never did an #introduction!

Hi, I'm Max. I live in #NYC and do #journalism at PCMag where I cover #infosec, #security, and #privacy. I also write reviews of #VPN and professionally complain about #capitalism. I'm the Unit Chair of the ZDCG #union and moonlight as a #labor organizer. If you want to learn about how to unionize your workplace, plz DM me. I play #banjo badly and think about #medieval literature. I'm spending too much money on #fountainpens.