#union discrimination

[556betrayed]

Bullies should never represent flight attendants at the negotiating table or anywhere else. Shame on TWU 556 leadership for appointing this person to the NT. Flight attendants deserve better!

[berniesrevolution]

@voicesbyzane

[auxryn]

Miyazaki International University has instituted a 20% pay cut for all contract faculty over 60. This is blatantly unfair treatment of employees who have consistently performed well over decades. Experience shouldn't make a person less valuable.

My local labor union is fighting them on this.

English-language article available here:

https://generalunion.org/fighting-for-fair-compensation/

宮崎国際大学で60歳以上の労働者の給与カットをやめなさい！

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The New Democratic Party and a group of labour unions are calling on the federal government to change Canada’s employment insurance rules so that new parents, especially new mothers, are not denied regular EI benefits if they get laid off. In a letter sent Thursday to Randy Boissonault, Canada’s employment minister, and NDP MP Daniel Blaikie, along with the Canadian Labour Congress, Unifor and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, are demanding an end to “gender discrimination” in the program. A copy of the letter shared with Global News stated: “Under the current EI Act, special and regular benefits can be combined up to a 50-week maximum. Using qualifying hours for regular benefits reduces what you can claim in maternity and parental benefits, and vice-versa. “This means that women who have a baby and access maternity benefits lose their protection in the event of a lay-off,” the letter to Boissonnault reads.

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Tagging @politicsofcanada

[useless-catalanfacts]

A new rule to increment discrimination

Context:

Public healthcare is one of the places where the most Catalanophobic interactions are reported. In 4 years, more than 100 Catalan speakers have reported that they have been denied healthcare or otherwise discriminated against for speaking Catalan, or were unable to access any healthcare in Catalan in a Catalan-speaking territory.

From disabled people who only speak Catalan being refused any medical attention unless they speak Spanish (which they don't know how to speak), to a man calling the ambulance but the healthcare worker who answers the phone spends the time scolding the caller for not speaking Spanish instead of calling for the urgently-needed ambulance, to many, many, many, many, many, many doctors telling patients "either you speak in Spanish or you leave", and many others given choices that link their language to shame: "would you rather speak Catalan or your son get cured?", "do you want to speak Catalan or do you want a vaccine appointment?", or being told "[derrogatory/infantilizing word for "woman"], you're making me waste time" for seeking medical attention as a Catalan-speaker.

Lack of access to healthcare is a systemic problem for Catalan people, who are often forced to use Spanish if we want medical treatment in our own country.

People should have the right to access public services (that they pay for with their own tax money) in the language of the country. Can you imagine an English speaker in England not being able to see any doctor or nurse who can attend them in English? Or in French in France, or German in Germany? It doesn't happen because speakers of the dominant language have the State on their side, but Catalan speakers have the Spanish (and French, in the case of Northern Catalonia) Government actively working against us.

And, more than anywhere else, in a moment of great vulnerability like the medical setting, it's very important that patients can speak their own language and not have to worry about translating concepts, they need to have the confidence to speak clearly on what happens to them and be focused on the issue, not on word choice or accent of this second language. Even less be worried about possibly facing discrimination for it.

The new rule:

The new Government of the Valencian Country (a coalition of the right-wing party PP and the fascist party Vox, both Spanish supremacist parties who make the hatred against Catalan/Valencian one of their main campaign points) has announced yet another way to increment that discrimination.

Until now, to decide who to hire for public jobs, there was a system of points, where each kind of certificate and qualification gave you some points. Speaking the local language (Valencian/Catalan) was already not a requisite —legally creating the situation where doctors and nurses can not know any of the language spoken in the place where they work. But, until now, speaking the local language at least gave some extra points.

Now, this new Spanish supremacist regional government has decided that knowing Valencian in the Valencian Country to work in a job with public interaction is worth less than speaking any language of an independent EU state. This means that you get more points for speaking, for example, Latvian, Swedish, Maltese, Slovak or Lithuanian, than for speaking the language of the place where you will be working and where you will be talking to people.

My full respect for speakers of all these languages, but (as an example) a hypothetical Estonian speaker who you might never even encounter in a Valencian town should not be worth more than the very real Valencian speakers that you will surely encounter working in the Valencian Country.

This rule is another step to legally protect systemic discrimination and to make it continue in the future.

Note: Valencian and Catalan are two names for the same language. They're being used interchangeably.

[lunarprophetuwu]

The GPDA on their way to the next meeting with FIA. They are out for blood ( As they should!!)

[mikhaila-bobersky]

Past vs future

Identity crisis Eurocuck: United in hating the migrants but still divided in their unifying hate.

Got banned on Reddit for this one.

[torahapologetics]

Anti Semitic Businesses: Starbucks From Ditmars Blvd. 31St. Astoria NY. #shortvideo

[jekna]

With all the strikes in the news, I'm obviously exuberant that these unions are advocating for better contracts and conditions. It's so encouraging to see it becoming more high profile and getting more public support.

But people might not realize that not all unions are allowed to strike. For example, unions comprised of government workers are not allowed to strike under federal law. That means your postal workers, air traffic controllers, IRS employees, Treasury employees, and many other federal, state, or local government employees cannot strike if their work conditions worsen or become unfavorable.

That makes these non-government strikes all the more important. Union strikes established almost all of our labor rights and fairness standards. These rights and standards aren't limited to the members of the unions, and that's because other organizations and industries know that if they don't offer what the union can offer, people won't work for them.

I for one hope that these strikes result in the unions getting everything they ask for and inspire everyone to raise their standards too!

[caterjunes]

well management has taken a hard heel turn from good faith bargaining to sudden union-busting, including but not limited to

forbidding me to speak to my coworkers about the last bargaining session on the clock (illegal; if you are allowed to talk about your weekend plans you are allowed to talk union)

holding two captive audience meetings afterwards, forbidding my coworkers to talk about union stuff on the clock (ditto)

in an unrelated grievance meeting with the CEO, he brought up my talking union in a way that implies it will affect his decision on my grievance (illegal; retaliation)

as well as suddenly digging their heels in on bargaining, rejecting 6 proposals out of hand and deciding they can't find any compromise on our wages proposal (aka re-proposing their initial one from september with no edits). as well as clearly failing to understand the reasoning behind some of our non-economic proposals (so their counterproposals are laughably off the mark). which is what i was talking about with my coworkers in the first place.

AND today the ceo emailed all staff with his summary of the bargaining session, which is carefully written to make us sound unreasonable & divisive. (so he gets to tell everyone his side when they're on the clock, but we don't, apparently)

[hellyeahheroes]

How Black and White Southern Timber Workers Almost Smashed Capitalism by NonCompete

[pinolitas]

ive been so bored needing a task to do and i signed up to be a citizen archivist with NARA and i just leave the tab of records im transcribing open so everytime i open my laptop im like oh yeah i can transcribe a page or two

[awesomecooperlove]

🧨🛡️⚰️

[ofdinosanddais1]

Still thinking about that time my manager discriminated against me and violated the union contract about prioritizing seniority when it comes to promotions and she said that she didn't want to promote me to a coordinator while blaming my autistic traits but then expected me to do every single thing a coordinator would do WITHOUT the pay raise amd WITHOUT the training while also denying me access to breaks and lunch and then the union found out and I got compensated for discrimination AND missed breaks, she got moved to a different department, and then she got fired.

Anyway support unions.

[awesomeifidosaysomyself]

shout out to shawn the australian physics professor who's getting harassed by his coworker mark in what is quite possibly the funniest way ever