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@wheeljaundiced.bsky.social
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🎄🚨Respect costs nothing 🚨🎄

📈As the festive shopping season intensifies, retail workers face longer hours, understaffing and rising abuse at work.

This festive season, stand with retail workers. 💛🛒

https://ow.ly/jJGt50XLAsi
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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We're looking forward to working more closely with the Universal Postal Union after signing a four-year cooperation agreement this month. It means postal workers worldwide will have a greater say in decisions that affect them.
https://ow.ly/rRq850XM7t7

December 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Many of the “only in podcasts” expressions noted by @thepressbox.bsky.social - like let me piggyback on that - are often heard in another place: meetings. Are podcasts just edited and uploaded meetings in which the listener has no stakes?
December 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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As @caseynewton.bsky.social writes, "Crime pays" for Facebook.

If the platform doesn't want to be a pillar of the "global fraud economy," it needs professionalized fact checking and content moderation — and more of it.
www.platformer.news/meta-scams-p...
Meta has a scam problem
The company's own projections showed up to 10 percent of its revenue could come from scams, according to a new leak. PLUS: OpenAI's "backstop" controversy
www.platformer.news
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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🚨 Big win for workers in 🇦🇺! Unions won an ethical conduct clause blocking companies guilty of union-busting from public contracts.

A model for the world! #MakeAmazonPay
Australia unions score win as new rule will block Amazon-style union-busting from public spending
Australia has introduced an ethical conduct clause into its federal procurement rules.
uniglobalunion.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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On #InternationalDayOfCareAndSupport, a new
@uniglobalunion.org report exposes a global crisis of violence & harassment in care.

🚨 8 in 10 care workers have faced or witnessed abuse.

✊ Safe staffing. Strong unions. Real protections are non-negotiable.

#ProtectCareWorkersNow
New global report exposes epidemic of violence in care and how unions are fighting back
Union initiatives to prevent violence and harassment in the care workforce.
uniglobalunion.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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They protect kids from the worst content on the massive game platform Roblox.

Their reward? Trauma and low wages.

These moderators, hired by Concentrix, expose the dangers of keeping the internet safe and why content moderators are organizing worldwide.
www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/2025/10/...
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Wage theft is theft. Governments must stop impunity for these corporate criminals.
"Glad you didn't get a penny from your claim as you don't deserve fck all...go fck yourself"

That's the message a director of Crussh sent to Raf just after it went into administration.Two months earlier a tribunal had ordered Crussh to pay Raf over £30k
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
‘Glad you didn’t get a penny’: cafe boss gloats over unpaid tribunal…
Cafe chain popular with MPs has lost two unfair dismissal cases but still not paid up
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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🚨 Countdown to the Thomson Reuters Foundation Trust Conference!

On 22 Oct, UNI General Secretary, Christy Hoffman joins a key panel on defending workers’ rights in the AI supply chain — exposing hidden labour, job displacement & growing inequality.

🔗 lnkd.in/eSbq2FQD

#TC2025 #FutureOfWork
October 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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We're calling on France's biggest bank, BNP Paribas, to stop financing companies operating in the occupied Palestinian territories and conduct heightened human rights due diligence to ensure its services do not support Israel’s illegal settlement activity there.
uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-cal...
October 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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🥷Ninjas, 👨‍🚀astronauts and even 👻ghosts all have emojis. Why don't the delivery workers who keep us connected?

We're part of a global effort calling on the @unicode.org to recognize these essential jobs with an emoji of their own.
🚚✉️📦👷‍♀️
#WorldPostDay #PostforPeople
uniglobalunion.org/news/deliver...
October 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Democracy is under attack — not just from authoritarian leaders, but from corporate giants like #Amazon & #Meta.
They bankroll far-right networks, profit from war & silence unions.

This #WDDW25, workers are saying: enough.
✊ Defend democracy. Demand decent work.
uniglobalunion.org/news/wddw25-...
October 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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So being against racism and fascism and standing with one’s community for self-defense is now considered a crime? Shame on UNC.

This is Dwayne Dixon. I know Dwayne and the students testifying to how great of a professor he is in the comments on Instagram are as shocked as I am.
October 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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One year after India's Human Rights Commission called for an inquiry into Amazon warehouse conditions, the latest findings suggest little has changed for staff at the e-commerce giant's facilities. #MakeAmazonPay
Amazon India Workers Suffer in 50°C Heat, Survey Finds
Amazon India faces fresh scrutiny as a new survey alleges workers are forced to endure 50°C heat without breaks or water, raising urgent questions about safety and labour rights.
www.ibtimes.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Corporations are ramping up bossware with AI to squeeze workers across our economy.

But workers are fighting back - winning.
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/09/unio...
Trade Unions Need to Fight Against Algorithmic Exploitation
Companies are increasingly using algorithmic management tools as a way to maximize the exploitation of workers. The power that managers gain from these tools can seem daunting, but there are opportuni...
jacobin.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We stand with workers in France’s trade & service sectors striking 18 September✊

After years of low wages, forced part-time and attacks on their dignity, the government's draft budget is an assault on their rights.

Workers are hitting the streets to say ENOUGH!
uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-sta...
UNI stands with French workers in massive mobilization against austerity
UNI stands in full solidarity with French workers and their unions mobilizing against austerity on 18 September.
uniglobalunion.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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When it comes to AI layoffs like these, they are having same effect: "More work has to be done by fewer people."

This is why we need collective bargaining over tech - especially AI.
www.engadget.com/ai/fiverr-is...
Fiverr is laying off 250 employees to become an 'AI-first company'
Fiverr is laying off around 30 percent of its employees as it invests in AI.
www.engadget.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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🚨1 year after India’s Human Rights Commission flagged Amazon’s heatwave abuses, UNI Global Union shows the crisis continues: extreme warehouse heat, unsafe delivery, workers collapsing on the job.

It’s time for accountability. #MakeAmazonPay
Inside Amazon India’s 55C pressure cooker warehouses
A year after Amazon faced criticism in India over reports of workers being pressured to work in sweltering warehouse conditions, a new survey indicates not much has changed. Shahana Yasmin reports
www.independent.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Content moderation is essential for safer, trustworthy social media. Companies like #TikTok should be investing in these critical positions rather than "replacing" them with AI.

Solidarity with @cwunews.bsky.social!
August 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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#TikTok plans on laying off 150 content moderators, and now it's trying to intimidate their supporters.

Workers’ rights are not optional - #TikTok should stop its bad behaviour and start negotiating with @verdi-medien.bsky.social now! ✊
uniglobalunion.org/news/tiktok-...
ver.di condemns TikTok's intimidation against Berlin strikers
In the dispute over the planned dismissals of content moderators and staff responsible for supporting non-German-speaking content creators at TikTok Germany, employees went on strike twice in July. Th...
uniglobalunion.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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#Concentrix fired 2 call centre reps after they told @bloomberg.com about AI’s dehumanizing impact on their jobs.

US law protects workers’ right to speak about working conditions. Now @cwaunion.bsky.social has filed federal charges to defend their rights.

uniglobalunion.org/news/concent...
August 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Eighty years ago, nuclear bombs devastated #Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people.

🕊️Today, UNI Global Union honours their memory and renews its call for peace and disarmament.
uniglobalunion.org/news/80-year...
August 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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🚨UPDATE: Human rights NGO is reporting that all #Handala crew members - including UNI colleague Hatem Aouini - are out of Israeli custody.

We must ramp up pressure on world leaders to take urgent, decisive action to bring the suffering in #Gaza to an end.
While our international institutions are paralyzed, the brave activists on the #Handala - including UNI brother Hatem Aouini - are taking bold steps to deliver life-saving aid to Gazans.

We call for their immediate release and to #LetAidIn.
uniglobalunion.org/news/handala...
Gaza: UNI demands immediate release of the Handala crew and full, safe aid delivery
UNI Global Union demand the immediate release of the civilian crew of the humanitarian aid ship Handala, including UNI colleague, Hatem Alouini.
uniglobalunion.org
July 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM