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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – WORKERS OF THE WORLD AWAKEN
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Educational assistants and support staff at Edmonton Public Schools
rallied at Alberta legislature, joined by other unions. Credit,
SHAUGHN BUTTS /Postmedia
* Italy: CGIL Turns to Party Politics
* Samsung Strikers Strike a Chord in South Korea
* Strike Wave in Greece
* National Strike and Mobilization in Peru
* Trade Unions Demand Gender-Transformative Agenda
* African Trade Unionists Launch Organizing Forum
* Georgia Republic: Online Casino Workers On Strike
* Alberta: Public Sector Unions Raise Hell
* Latin American Women Lead the Fight
* Elections: Lithuania, Uruguay, Japan
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ITALY: CGIL TURNS TO PARTY POLITICS
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_Giuliano Cazzola_ / FIRSTonline (Rome)
Italy’s largest union, CGIL, expresses itself across the board not
only as a political subject, a role that a large trade union
organization also plays, but as a force which supports and fuels the
political/party opposition to the current government.
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SAMSUNG STRIKERS STRIKE A CHORD IN SOUTH KOREA
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_Hee Sun Kim_ / East Asia Forum (Canberra)
The National Samsung Electronics Union began a strike on 10 July 2024,
demanding improved pay and working conditions. Despite Samsung’s
move towards automatisation and maintaining its power, changes are
surfacing within the country’s workforce with younger generations
showing less long-term loyalty to companies.
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STRIKE WAVE IN GREECE
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PAME (Athens)
A massive wave strike rose on Wednesday, October 23 and flooded
Athens, Piraeus and major Greek cities. Maritime workers, teachers,
dockers, metalworkers, and workers in hotels, tourism, catering and
delivery were on strike demanding Collective Contracts with better
wages as well as health and safety regulations at work. A general
strike has been called for November 20.
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National Strike and Mobilization in Peru
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_Ben Radford_ / Green Left (Sydney)
Thousands of workers went on strike across Peru on October 23,
followed by nationwide protests on October 24. The national
strike was originally called by transport workers. Workers from other
industries, students, small business owners, human rights groups,
LGBTIQ rights organisations and community kitchens joined the national
mobilisation.
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TRADE UNIONS DEMAND GENDER-TRANSFORMATIVE AGENDA
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Public Services International et al.
The global trade union movement calls for the Beijing +30 Declaration
to support the workers call for a New Social Contract rooted in a
gender-transformative agenda and five key demands: gender equality for
social justice, democracy and peace; women’s labor rights as human
rights; decent work for women; equal pay for work of equal value; work
free from gender-based violence and harassment.
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AFRICAN TRADE UNIONISTS LAUNCH ORGANIZING FORUM
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The African trade union organizing and collective bargaining strategic
forum was launched in Kigali, Rwanda, on 3-4 October under the slogan
“Building African Workers’ Power in Our Lifetime.” The forum
brought together over 80 trade unionists from 28 African countries –
over 50 per cent of the African Union’s 55 member states – with
some participants coming from Belgium, Turkey, and Ireland.
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GEORGIA REPUBLIC: ONLINE CASINO WORKERS STRIKE
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_Vittoria Elliott_ / Wired (Boone IA)
For months, thousands of employees of Evolution, an online gambling
company, have been on strike in Tbilisi, Georgia, protesting over pay,
allegations of harassment, and unsafe working conditions. To create
the realistic casino-like environment required, hosts must stand at
the tables on camera for eight hours a day. Workers claim they are
penalized for needing to leave, even for health reasons.
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ALBERTA: PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS RAISE HELL
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_Matthew Black_ / Edmonton Journal
A crowd of several thousand public sector union workers rallied
outside the Alberta legislature building demanding better pay and
improved working conditions in a demonstration amid continued
bargaining with some of the province’s largest unions. The
protesters included nurses, health care workers, teachers and
education workers, provincial employees, and University of Alberta
support staff.
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LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN LEAD THE FIGHT
• HAITI: JUSLENE TYRESIAS
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_Bianca Pessoa_ / Capire
• BRAZIL: LECI BRANDÃO
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• MEXICO: HORTENSIA TELÉSFORO JIMÉNEZ
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/ Front Line Defenders (Dublin)
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ELECTIONS: LITHUANIA, URUGUAY, JAPAN
• LITHUANIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRAT BEATS INCUMBENT
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• RUNOFF IN URUGUAY
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_Gabriel Díaz Campanella_ / EL PAÍS (Madrid)
• JAPAN CP HOPES DASHED
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* Italy
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* CGIL
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* South Korea
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* Samsung strike
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* National Samsung Electronics Union
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* Greece
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* PAME
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* Peru
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* national strike
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* Public Services International
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* gender equality
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* African trade unions
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* Republic of Georgia
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* online gambling
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* strike
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* Canada
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* Alberta
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* Public Workers
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* Latin America
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* Women
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* Haiti
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* Juslene Tyresias
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* Papay Peasant Movement
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* Brazil
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* Leci Brandão
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* Mexico
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* Hortensia Telésforo Jiménez
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* Lithuania
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* Social Democrats
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* Vilija Blinkeviciute
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* Uruguay
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* Frente Amplio Uruguay
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* Japan
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* Japanese Communist Party
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