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Workers around the world are standing shoulder to shoulder with workers in Bessemer, Alabama fighting to bring the first union to an Amazon Fulfillment Center in the United States! Watch the latest solidarity videos from union workers and supporters around the globe.
As COVID has become one of the most pressing health and safety issues, a report released today by UNI Global Union finds that nursing home employees have some of the world’s most dangerous jobs, thanks to the pandemic. The report examined data in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, and Canada.
Tonight, UNI Global Union and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), filed an amicus brief in the case brought by Derrick Palmer, Kendia Mesidor, Benita Rouse, Alexander Rouse, Barbara Chandler and Luis Pellot-Chandler v. Amazon.com Inc. and Amazon.com Services LLC, which argues that the e-commerce giant must protect warehouse workers and the community at large from COVID-19…
The unchecked power of Amazon will be put in the spotlight at a symposium hosted by international trade unions, UNI Global Union and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), in Brussels on Monday 2 December 2019. For the first time unions, policy makers, activists from the USA and Europe are gathering to consider appropriate regulations and other checks on global corporate power in an era of technological dominance.
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