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Peter Riley

After a 74-hour #strike by 1,000 workers, the #Nexperia #Philippines Workers’ Union secured the reinstatement of #union leaders Mary Ann Castillo (president) and Girlie Battad (union official), along with a PHP50 (US$0.87) #wageincrease over three years.

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3CR Community Radio · Victory to the Philippines Nexperia workersAfter a 74-hour strike by 1,000 workers, the Nexperia Philippines Workers’ Union secured the reinstatement of union leaders Mary Ann Castillo (president) and Girlie Battad (union official), along with a PHP50 (US$0.87) wage increase over three years. My guest today is Rochelle Porras from Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research in the Philippines.
#laborMovement#organize#solidarity
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Peter Riley

labornotes.org/2025/03/postal-

#postalworkers vs #privatisation
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #APWU #FightLikeHell” #NALC

Labor Notes · Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies to Save the Postal ServiceFrom big cities to small towns, postal workers organized hundreds of rallies across the country in the past week to defend a beloved public service—and the nation’s largest union employer—against privatization and DOGE attack. “Whose Postal Service?” workers chanted in New York: “The people’s Postal Service.” “U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale” was the rallying cry March 20 at 250 rallies organized by the Postal Workers (APWU). “Fight Like Hell” was the theme March 23 for another 210 rallies led by the Letter Carriers (NALC). A hundred people came out to the NALC rally in St.
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Peter Riley

The industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada: United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) has a mission to bring together "artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status."
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AOL · One in 10 Video Game Developers Were Laid Off in 2024, GDC Report FindsBy Jennifer Maas
#LaborMovement#Organize#solidarity
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Miguel Symonds Orr
Design Labor is Work. Workers Need Unions.

I'm glad to see conversations about design and labor multiply in design spaces and social media circles. Design professionals are often taught to see themselves as artists and not workers, which helps to keep designers from advocating collectively for better working conditions - a concept Marisa Cortright names "The Myth of the Calling". Read Cortright's essay "Death to the Calling: A Job in Architecture Is Still a Job" in Failed Architecture for more on this idea. https://failedarchitecture.com/author/marisa-cortright/

#architectsneedunions #jointhemovement #union #solidarity #architecture #architectureunion #1u #labormovement #uwcbe #uwcollegeofbuiltenvironments #gouldhall #gouldhalluw #uwlandscapearchitecture #uwarchitecture #rhino3d #rhinoceros3d #3dmodeling #digitaldrawing #illustrationartists #illustration
An isometric drawing of staircases in UW's Gould Hall building with text surrounding that reads "Design Labor is Work. Workers need unions." The design is black and white with a noise texture added.
#illustration
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The world has radically changed over the past four-plus decades. Unions haven’t. Or at least they haven’t changed nearly enough to match what they’re up against. In this context, unionizing Amazon – iconic in status and fanatically anti-union – stands as a definitive challenge for this generation of trade unionists. The catch-22 is that while unionizing Amazon holds out the promise of renewing labour, bringing Amazon to heel demands an already revived labour movement in place.

The only way around this lies in moving to transform labour through the process of unionizing Amazon. With the first strike of Amazon (December 19 to 24, 2024, seven locations in the US) now behind us, it seems especially important to have the widest discussions about its outcome and relationship to reviving labour. What went right in the strike? What went wrong? What might we collectively learn and incorporate for ‘next time’?"

socialistproject.ca/2025/03/am

#USA#Amazon#AmazonStrike
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker” organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough to save the labor movement. It’s already happening, we need more of it; listen up, union leaders, Blanc says: you can afford it.

If Blanc goes a bit overboard on his points occasionally, that’s fine; he’s making a case. The book is a compelling case not only for organizing millions more workers into the labor movement but for doing it in a way that could help them build power in their unions and in their workplaces.

Blanc is clear that neither he nor the worker-organizers he writes about have invented the notion that workers should have control of their own organizing drives. He cites examples beginning with the early twentieth-century Wobblies to show that bottom-up, nonbureaucratized unionism is an ancient thread in our movement.

Today’s worker-to-worker unionism, in Blanc’s definition, means that workers train other workers in organizing methods, unlike the usual union practice of leaving that mentoring to staffers. The organizing drive itself is initiated by workers, rather than being chosen by union strategists. And the workers have a decisive say on day-to-day strategy — at least partly because there are just fewer staffers around. Hopefully, that’s also because the union has accepted the wisdom of letting workers lead."

jacobin.com/2025/03/blanc-work

jacobin.comLet Workers LeadThe “worker-to-worker” organizing model adopted by many of the most dynamic unions and campaigns in the country has enormous promise for revitalizing labor — in large part because it puts workers themselves in the drivers’ seat.
#Unions#LaborMovement#WorkerToWorker
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