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Jacobin | At a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a Mercedes factory in Vance, Alabama, the United Auto Workers have filed for union elections. If the UAW wins, it would be a major victory against anti-union bulwarks.
Striking grocery workers in Toronto and surrounding suburbs say they cannot afford to shop at the very stores they work in. The 2,300 workers at 27 Metro grocery stores have been on strike since July 29, having turned down a tentative collective agreement that had been unanimously approved by their union leadership.
AI threatens to reduce already shrunken workdays on streaming videos, movies, TV shows, and the like to one-day sessions—and one day’s pay, while the studios continue to make millions forever by duplicating the writers’ and performers’ work endlessly.
If a company such as Amazon wants to do business in Canada, shouldn’t it recognize the value of its own workers?
One Uber Eats courier says it’s ‘employee or bust’ — but at least one union leader wonders if compromising might work better.