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1 year ago
ShiftShapers
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1 year ago
ShiftShapers

more on the Egyptian textile workers:

Egypt: Mahalla strikers score victory: Government negotiators and labor representatives resolved early on Saturday a week-old labor dispute that had paralyzed Egypt’s largest textile factory by largely agreeing to the workers’ demands, the strike committee said in a statement. Workers’ representatives of the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla el-Kubra, north of Cairo, met with the official government union and they agreed to grant the workers’ an additional 90 days pay, and negotiate over further increases. (LimCom.org)

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1 year ago
mwm

Nice job

R305741
1 year ago
WesleyWes

Kudos for Starbucks.

R305749
1 year ago
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R306052
1 year ago
preoccupied

if starbucks pay only three percent of its coffee workers a fair wage, it should only be allowed to print that on three percent of its cups, instead of all its cups.

R306366
1 year ago
ShiftShapers

Masked gunmen murdered Guatemalan union leader Marco Tulio Ramírez Portela early in the morning of September 23 as he was leaving his home for work. Marco Tulio was secretary of sports and culture of the banana workers union SITRABI, which organizes Del Monte workers. His brother, Noé Antonio Ramírez Portela,is the union general secretary.

Tulio’s murder follows a pattern of rising anti-union violence and institutional impunity in Guatemala. In July, the SITRABI headquarters was raided by uniformed soldiers using official vehicles, who demanded information on union officers and members. The union filed a full report with the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Special Unit for Crimes against Unionists and Journalists.

The IUF has called on the Guatemalan government to immediately undertake a full and open investigation into this latest union assassination. You can support the struggle against immunity – Click here to send a message to the authorities. Copies of all messages will be automatically forwarded to SITRABI.

R306369
1 year ago
Truthcansuk

Promises and Poverty: Starbucks calls its coffee worker-friendly — but in Ethiopia, a day’s pay is a dollar…

I’m assuming it’s not an American dollar, either. It never is…

R306372
1 year ago
ZenSwashbuckler

I’m assuming it’s not an American dollar, either. It never is

But since a Canadian dollar goes just as far now, that makes it OK.

R306376
1 year ago
Truthcansuk

I don’t think any intelligent Ethiopian is going to allow themselves to be pinned to the fluctuations of the North American Peso…

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