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workers rights
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Follow the RMT example: Unions must take action to defend living standards
By Mick Barry TD The inflation crisis has sharply posed the question: how can the living standards of…
Workers will bear the burden as welfare schemes for bosses come to a close
By Dan O’Rourke Mainstream economists and large accountancy firms have warned of the potential of a wave of…
Glasgow Equal Pay victory against SNP’s sexist hypocrisy
By Daisy Crump and Paul Moorhouse, Socialist Alternative in Scotland Glasgow City Council’s public relations team spent the…
Amazon’s union busting at sorting centre in the US
By Chris Gray, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) Following the historic union victory at the…
Amazon defeated in New York City – unionise Amazon everywhere!
By an Amazon worker in the United States Workers at the JFK8 Amazon Fulfillment Center in Staten Island…
“We can’t afford to live” — what’s needed to end the cost-of-living crisis
By Jonathan Diebold The cost-of-living crisis, or more accurately, the cost-of-surviving crisis, is here. Over three quarters of…
Starbucks workers have a golden opportunity
This article by Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant was originally published with Jacobin. Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New…
Covid 19-Government lifts restrictions but global pandemic continues
By Conor Payne On Friday, 21 January, Taoiseach Micheal Martin announced the sudden abandonment of most Covid restrictions.…
United States: Unionise Amazon — save workers’ lives!
By Michael O’Brien The circumstances in which six Amazon workers recently died, and 95 of their colleagues had…
Ireland’s meat industry: super-exploitation & criminal mistreatment
By Cathal Curran The shocking mistreatment of meat factory workers and the inhospitable conditions under which they live…
