Cuts to fuel excise favour the wealthy, reduces funding of roads, and gives nothing to those who do the right thing and take public transport or have electric vehicles. The #LNP will always support such regressive measures. #Labor's election sweetener is marginally better in that the tax cuts appear mostly progressive. The #LNP have never supported, or understood, action on climate change.

We should be much more progressive in taxation and use funds to improve public transport in all forms. We no not need or want nuclear or massive gas projects. Renewables with grid stabilisation, already mostly negates the idea that we need gas or nuclear to meet baseload demand. #FederalElection2025

#auspol #election2025 #Politics

It is not #Labor induced cost of living crisis, but from the seeds sown during the last 9 years of #LyingNastyParasites being in power. #Labor inherited almost 1 trillion debt which has been reduced a lot by their management.

#FuelExcise cut for 12 months? Sounds good, but is not solving the structural problems or ensuring a better future.

The #Nuclear power proposal will take decades to come and double energy prices. And be an enormous burden on our economy. And where is the water coming from? There isn't enough.

This is how capitalism normally run, this is what happens when you throw the entire chinese and indian labor force in it

https://libretooth.gr/system/cache/media_attachments/files/114/196/391/795/886/277/original/41fd24d6f5a85e9f.mp4

@felis_catus_domesticus @AlexGallagher #neoliberalism #hydracapitalista #labor

It seems the #richpigs creditors 'solution is to rape the pension fund just like the same sort of scum did to International Harvester's workers when it went belly up, then re-emerged as Navistar debt-free. Also note that a well-known trucking company as large as this could only go belly up if the #USEconomy is going doooowwwwn.

"Yellow (Truck Lines) Creditors Have Own Plan to Share Trucker’s $550 Million"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/yellow-creditors-have-own-plan-to-share-trucker-s-550-million #Labor #Bankruptcy

Trump just screwed a significant part of his electoral base. Will they notice?

"The president reversed Biden’s 2021 executive order that raised the #minimumwage for federal contractors to $15 an hour."

Donald #Trump rolls back over a dozen #Biden-era executive orders, actions.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5196563-trump-biden-executive-orders-actions/ #labor

What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.

#GreenSocialist #GreenParty #EcoSocialism #Socialist #Marxist #Revolution #Peace #Ecology #SocialJustice #Democracy #Education #DualPower #Election #Vote #Voting #Politics #Electoral #ElectoralReforms #Organizing #Organize #Reading #Discussion #Learning #Worker #Workers #Labor #WorkersRights #Union #Unions #LaborRights #UnionsRights #HumanRights #MicroPlastics #Plastic

Pandemie-Ursprung: Hielt das Kanzleramt BND-Einschätzung zu Corona zurück?

Laut Medienberichten ging der Auslandsgeheimdienst BND in der Pandemie mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit davon aus, dass das Coronavirus seinen Ursprung in einem Labor in China hatte. Doch das Kanzleramt soll die Einschätzung zurückgehalten haben.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bnd-corona-ursprung-wuhan-labor-bundesregierung-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Corona #Ursprung #BND #Bundesregierung #Labor #Wuhan

Judge orders DOGE member to testify
https://www.muskwatch.com/i/158555627/judge-orders-doge-member-to-testify

"Judge John Bates ruled last week that a member of #DOGE must testify in a case challenging the group’s access at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Departments of #Labor and #Health and Human Services...

#Musk has repeatedly called for Bates to be impeached"

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Lawsuit #Judge #Law #CFPB #HHS #Government #News #US #USA

The SF Labor Council and the California Federation of Labor Unions are organizing a march for immigrant workers in Delano with the United Farm Workers this upcoming César Chávez Day, Monday, March 31.

Bus leaves at 5:30 AM from the Bill Graham Auditorium (corner of Grove and Larkin Streets). Sign up using the link below if you're interested.

#labor #union #CesarChavezDay #California #SanFrancisco

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeplv2iEFbbDKCZx_3y89VSINba2onDjaJNYFQOyj0pE1vRNA/viewform

Meanwhile, in #BadEconomy #fuckery

> Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them https://futurism.com/google-sergey-brin-60-hour-week-ai

But yea, the #tech #HigherEd and #academia are rushing to embrace, including certain small campuses with #librarians who should know better.

#AI #Internet #assholes #BringBackGuillotines #jobs #work #labor #exploitation

🇨🇦 Quebec Is Taking Trudeau’s Lead And Attacking Unions

The province’s minister of labour has tabled a bill empowering the government to end strikes and extend essential services designations.

https://www.readthemaple.com/quebec-is-taking-trudeaus-lead-and-attacking-unions/

#francoislegault
#antiworker
#labor
#canada
#quebec
#montreal
#syndicat
#greve
#cdnpoli
#media
#journalism
#press
#humanrights
@politics

James Glenday points out the absurdity of the #LNP not only matching but SURPASSING #Labor's $8.5 billion #Medicare plan withing HOURS, by $500 million.

HOW ARE THEY PAYING FOR IT?

Opposition spending planned on a beer coaster.
Labor would be crucified.

#journalism #auspol

On Sunday, WaPo reported that #DOGE is seeking access to a heavily guarded system at the #IRS w/detailed #financial #information about every #taxpayer, #business & #nonprofit in the country, & #ElonMusk’s associates have also sought access to sensitive information at the #Labor Dept.

#law #privacy #Trump #InfoSec #PersonalFinance

Featured story: Travis County’s progressive DA has secured indictments for the 2021 death of Juan José Galvan Batalla, remembered as a “cheerful” hard worker and beloved sibling. https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-rare-prosecution-worker-death-trench-collapse/

#Austin #Texas #politics #labor #workers #HumanRights #USpol #news #CriminalJustice

DOGE software approval alarms Labor Dept employees

Elon Musk’s #DOGE subordinates received approval to use #software at the Labor Dept that could be used to transfer large amounts of #data...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/doge-software-approval-alarms-labor-department-employees-data-security-rcna191583

"The approval for Musk’s team to use the remote-access and file-transfer software, known as PuTTY, has alarmed... #Labor Dept’s career employees...

“This is completely opposite of what we’d do to protect #privacy.”"

#Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Tech #Security #News #USA #US

What Will DOGE’s Moves on Government Agencies Mean for OSHA?

Unions took to the streets—and the courts—to try to keep Elon Musk’s initiative out of the Labor Department.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-will-doges-moves-on-government-agencies-mean-for-osha

"Occupational Safety & #Health Administration, a branch of the #Labor Department... has repeatedly fined Musk’s companies for serious #safety violations...

#SpaceX... had an injury rate 6 times higher than the industry average...

#OSHA has also fined... #Tesla ...[&] the Boring Company."

#Musk #News

Mit einem neuen #Labor-#Update liefert #AVM #FritzOS 8.02 für das #FritzSmart #Gateway. Damit erhalten Nutzer mehr Kontrolle über #Matter-Geräte in ihrem Netzwerk und haben Zugriff auf zusätzliche Funktionen. https://winfuture.de/news,148862.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Benjamin Netanyahu’s ties to Qatar may amount to treason – Yair Golan – Israel News https://www.byteseu.com/?p=741357 #BenjaminNetanyahu #investigation #Israel #labor #Qatar #ShinBet #YairGolan

#auspol #politics #energy #australia #lnp #labor
the plan to back track ensuring Australia remains mired in fossil fuels

The Labor Party NEEDS a head-kicker in control, not a spineless wimp. I voted primarily Labor in the last general election, mixed with Independents (Libs, Nats, PHON, etc fighting for last place) but this time it'll be Independents up front with Labor relegated to the bench. Still putting everyone else back in the locker room, of course.

There's just nobody that I can see in the current crop of Labor pollies that is suitable. Happy to be corrected with a name, but they've got to be someone who is actually willing to step up and come out fighting.

#AusPol #Australia #Labor #Politics

https://aus.social/@firstdogonthemoon/113938606366921156

‘Directly violates the law’: Trump defying ’90 years of Supreme Court precedent’ in firing labor board member after ‘unlawful’ termination, lawsuit says

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/directly-violates-the-law-trump-defying-90-years-of-supreme-court-precedent-in-firing-labor-board-member-after-unlawful-termination-lawsuit-says/

#trump #scotus #labor #law #press

How did the COVID-19 pandemic impact digitalization and organizational changes in companies across different sectors in Germany?

New paper by Martin Krzywdzinski & Florian Butollo:

➡️ https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/the-covid-19-crisis-digitalization-and-organizational-change/

#work #labor #digitalization #covid #socialscience #research #sociology #openaccess @WZB_Berlin @WZB_GlobalWork @towardsfairwork

https://generalstrikeus.com/

#GeneralStrike #Labor #Strike #USpol

There's momentum building around a general strike in the US. A general strike is an all-industry labor shutdown until demands are met. This seems different from the previous calls for a general strike, although it's early, since there's ongoing work with organizing and network building, and an actionable, actively developing plan, including demand areas. The goal is 11 million people pledging to strike; 3.5% of the population.

The #ABC's Sarah Ferguson spreads the #disinformation of Peter Dutton that increases in cutting #InterestRates.

How does she still have a job?

#Labor's Jim Chalmers set the record straight.

#abc730 #journalism #misinformation #auspol

2/2. Sarah Ferguson continues her anti-#Labor rant about #inflation and #CostOfLiving.

People have jobs, wages are up, inflation is down.

Who's angry? People paid $2 million for a house worth $1 million?

#ABC #abc730 #journalism #misinformation #auspol

#Labor's tackled #inflation and now #InterestRates are set to fall.

Meanwhile the media is spreading the #misinformation that Australia's in the MIDDLE of a #CostOfLiving crisis.

🔹 ⬆️ Wages
🔹 ⬇️ Inflation
🔹 ⬇️ Unemployment
🔹 ⬇️ Interest rates (soon).

#abc730 #auspol

A lot of people are supporting Costco for "keeping DEI", but recall that 18,000 Costco Union workers are going on strike on Feb 1.

They are striking over: "seniority pay, paid family leave, bereavement policies, sick time, and safeguards against surveillance."

Don't wash out the labour power with your support of so-called DEI policies when they're not actively supporting the needs and rights of workers.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/business/costco-strike-teamsters/index.html

Read what the Teamsters are striking against. Union busting too.

"The Teamsters recently filed unfair labor practice charges against Costco for expelling union representatives, harassing workers for wearing union buttons, sending employees home, removing union literature, and even changing locks on union bulletin boards. Notably, Costco rejected a proposal that would protect the union’s right to post on bulletin boards without interference — an agreement that could have addressed some of these labor board complaints."

https://teamster.org/2024/12/costco-refuses-to-accept-98-of-teamsters-proposals/

#Costco #labor #DEI #solidarity

🇷🇺 Massacre, gunning down at least 1,000 protesters. The bloodshed sparked the 1905 Revolution, which Vladimir Lenin dubbed “the great dress rehearsal” for the 1917 October Revolution.

https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1882129260296720444

#russia
#communism
#socialism
#union
#labor

“Eighty-eight percent of us identify as women. Seventy-nine percent of us are people of color. We don’t get any sick leave. We have no health care benefits, and so this is the population of workers that we’re talking about. This is definitely a woman’s issue.”

Over at @deceleration, I interviewed an organizer with a caretakers' and personal attendants' group who are demanding fair wages for their often physically demanding work caring for the #disabled. Also included was legendary #disability rights organizer Bob Kafka of ADAPT of #Texas. Together, they discussed how they're preparing for #Trump and the Texas lege: https://deceleration.news/disability-rights-texas-bob-kafka/

#TXlege #HumanRights #politics #USpol #news #activism #TXlege #DonaldTrump #GregAbbott #workers #labor #accessibility

Spot on from @grogsgamut

For most of us, #superannuation is about saving for retirement. For people who are already wealthy it’s an effective tax minimisation system allowing them to pass on more wealth to their kids. Tax concessions to this latter group cost taxpayers - all of us - a motsa, while a quarter of age pensioners live in poverty.

This is so obvious! Yet even the most modest reduction of these tax breaks is greeted with a media scare campaign. And as always, #Labor puts perceived political risk ahead of responsible governance.

#SelfFunded retirees* with huge super balances? #YeahRight We see you. #AusPol 🎪

* This is a diverse group, as I have been reminded in the comments below. Not all are retiring in luxury or passing on millions to their kids.

Misleading fear campaigns may kill Labor’s superannuation changes. But here are the real numbers https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/jan/23/misleading-fear-campaigns-may-kill-labors-superannuation-changes-but-here-are-the-real-numbers-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If would be interesting to see the overlap between

(a) Sectors where unionization activity and other labor unrest has appeared; and
(b) Sectors where the AI maniacs are claiming AI will soon take over jobs

My suspicion is that one of the functions of generative AI is labor discipline: frighten workers so that they stop making demands of employers for fear of losing their jobs or benefits. Labor discipline is a well-documented strategy the powers that be have been using for at least a century for exactly this purpose. Clara Mattei's excellent book and articles on this subject, which I think make this case incontrovertibly.

I don't think it's coincidental that there is so much enthusiasm for generative AI among powerful state and corporate actors despite a corresponding dislike and fear of it among working class folks: that's a common pattern in labor disciplining policies and is how they function. I also don't think it's coincidental that the generative AI rhetoric, and the latest hype cycle, kicked off in the wake of COVID-related state interventions: as Mattei argues, austerity policies are consciously brought to bear on behalf of wealthy capitalists whenever the state is forced by circumstances to take actions benefiting workers. The recent historic rise in unionization activity was met with mass layoffs (read: labor discipline), a rise in interest rates (read: financial pain inflicted on the non-wealthy) and attempts to "cool off" the economy (read: force a bunch of people to become unemployed, another labor disciplining tool). I think generative AI is, in part, an attempt to squash hope and force workers to be docile again through fear and acquiescence, which again is a labor disciplining strategy Mattei has documented is consciously brought to bear by the powers that be.

Therefore it wouldn't surprise me at all to find that (a) is nearly identical to (b), or contained within it.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #labor #LaborDiscipline #austerity

The "secret" is no secret: thanks to #Unions, #Labor, and #SocialDemocracy, #workers in #Denmark have power.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g7705re3o#webview=1

For zod's sake, PLEASE stop making progressive communications inaccessible.

If you want to get the word out about your union, etc., please make sure all images have alt text, all PDFs are accessible ones, etc.

It literally helps your words reach more people. #Accessibility #Union #Labor

"US House votes to sanction ICC over its arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant."

#Australia is slowly learning what much of the world has known for decades; one cannot support the 'Rules Based International Order' (a throw away line so beloved of Penny Wong) and be an obedient friend of the US at the same time. 'A century of mateship!'

Australia's confusing, contradictory and simultaneous commitments to multilateralism and the exceptionalism of the #US and #Israel *should be an election issue. But it won't be, of course. Aussie media not touching this story, so far.

#auspol #Gaza #ICC #Labor #Greens

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-house-votes-sanction-international-criminal-court-over-israel-2025-01-09/

The AFL-CIO and SEIU, two giants of labor, have decided to merge again after splitting twenty years ago, and they’re investing heavily in protecting immigrant workers from the coming raids. #labor #unions #UnionsForAll #union #workers https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seiu-rejoins-afl-cio_n_677ef70de4b004ca51b5c27b

Found a Zionist Jordan Shanks.

And noting (not for the first time) the Gaza Genocide is like a Rorschach Test for many. Esp Australian Jews and Labor rusties.

There are those among us who see crimes against humanity, including ethnic cleansing and genocide. And are disgusted at official Aust support for such an odiously violent, rogue regime.

Then there are those reflexively loyal to the Israeli or Labor cause and see Israel 'defending itself' from an unprovoked attack by terrorists. They also see antisemitism in everything, esp criticism of the Israeli State. Accusing most of the UN GA, Ireland, The Pope, uni protesters, anyone supporting international law while holding a Palestinian flag, and of course the Greens of antesemetism.

These robots have internalised the most vile and base of 'politics' in what used to be the progressive and idealistic political wing of the union movement. They get triggered when they see 1.4 million primary votes flow to a Party that does not take money from fossil fuel or weapons companies, takes climate change and the housing crisis seriously, seeks to restore Australian sovereignty, and has been calling out the Israeli apartheid state for decades. While Labor on the other hand has been enthusiastic supporters of the US empire and politely averting its gaze from its military and political support for a regime credibly accused of war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

Because 'politics', of course.

#australia #labor #auspol

#Labor vs the #LNP.

#elections #auspol

Forcing Amazon to respect its workers
Something you can do

" As we reported earlier, Amazon workers at seven locations around the country organized a strike timed for the holidays to try to force Amazon to the bargaining table. These are workers who have already voted and decided to form a union, yet #Amazon is simply refusing to recognize them or meet with them. Public pressure and striking is the only route left for those workers.

The #union has organized a petition calling on Amazon to recognize the union and enter into contract negotiations."

from #DropSiteNews
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Ryan Grim
Jan 06, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/forcing-amazon-to-respect-its-workers?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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