The Confederation of Industrial Labor of Thailand (CILT) is calling for global labor support to monitor union busting in the Honda Motor supply chain following the firing of five employees at its automotive part supplier, Y-Tec, in Prachinburi. The company violated the Labor Relations Act by firing the five workers for trying to form a union and tried to intimidate other workers who joined the union to quit. This is the second incidence of anti-union discrimination at Y-Tec. The first occurred in 2017 when the company fired more than 30 workers for organizing. CILT represents 75,000 members from the automotive, electrical appliances, electronics, metal, petroleum, chemical, electricity generating, textiles, garment and leather sectors.
“The wave of cultural institutions collectivizing in Baltimore is part of a larger, national movement. Workers the world over are fed up. We want our voices heard. It’s time to listen.”
From That Moment When You Win Your Museum’s Union Election, in HYPERALLERGIC. This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Pins & Needles’ mass appeal. Last week’s show: Finnish North American working class women and music in the early 20th Century. “Fighting Mary” Eliza McDowell, also known as the “Angel of the Stockyards,” born in Chicago. As a social worker she helped organize the first women’s local of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1902 – 1854 Mother Jones died at the Burgess Farm in Adelphi, Md.; “I’m not a lady, I’m a hell-raiser!” – 1930 Unionists and activists shut down World Trade Organization meeting, Seattle, Wash. – 1999 David Prosten Six local UFCW unions – representing twelve states and the District of Columbia, and over 100,000 Kroger and Albertsons workers – will discuss the impact of the proposed merger between the two grocery giants on Capitol Hill today prior to this afternoon’s hearing by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights. The unions say the merger will have a “devastating” effect on workers, consumers, and suppliers such as farmers and ranchers if approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and will call on federal and state regulators to stop the merger. The union event will be live-streamed starting at 11a this morning.
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