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BMA calls on the Health Secretary to focus on securing a deal to stop the strikes rather than scaremongering the public 2025-12-13 [BMA]

Nova Scotia Security Guards join union 2025-12-13 [UFCW]

RHA employees to benefit from PSA wage hike 2025-12-13 [Newsday]

Workers are treated as production resources and cost item 2025-12-13 [NLtimes]

Steven Greenhouse: Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs 2025-12-13 [Guardian]

New York Amazon Workers at DBK1 in Queens Become Latest to Join Teamsters 2025-12-13 [NYC CLC]

Ohio Akron Metro RTA union marks 17 months without a contract as Rep. Emilia Sykes joins demand for management to bargain 2025-12-13 [WCPN]

Utah Utah repeals ban on collective bargaining for teachers, firefighters, and police 2025-12-13 [AP]

Ontario Education unions say funding will mitigate violence crisis, low test scores 2025-12-13 [rabble]

Alberta Edmonton care workers file to unionize 2025-12-13 [Alberta Worker]

Alberta Alberta Innovates workers ratify new contract 2025-12-13 [Alberta Worker]

The Tax Union admits protests and strikes in 2026 2025-12-13 [Portugal Pulse]

Union XXI cancels strike at the Container Terminal of Porto de Sines 2025-12-13 [Portugal Pulse]

Going to travel? SPdH/Menzies workers on strike during New Year’s Eve 2025-12-13 [Portugal Pulse]

General strike in Portugal paralyzes transport and services against labor reform in Montenegro 2025-12-13 [mix vale]

SIPTU Is Warning Of Five Days Of Strike Action Involving Caredoc Service 2025-12-13 [Tipp Mid West Radio]

JUSUN Strike: ‘It is Primitive to Threaten Kogi Judiciary Workers’ – Lawyer Fumes 2025-12-13 [Reports]

Firefighters push on with strike as negotiations continue to drag 2025-12-13 [The Post]

Thousands of public servants set to down tools in protest of 3% increase 2025-12-13 [The Times]

General strike paralyzes Portugal and leaves Lisbon deserted: TAP cuts almost two-thirds of its 250 flights, trains and services halt, schools and hospitals reduce services, unions react to labor reforms with 61% popular support. 2025-12-13 [CPG]

Health workers vow to continue strike 2025-12-13 [Punch]

England New strikes at Sellafield as 'union-busting' sees workers laid off 2025-12-13 [Unite]

Unions strike to protest new budget priorities 2025-12-13 [Deutsche Welle]

Thousands strike and march in Italy against Meloni's budget 2025-12-13 [Reuters]

New South Wales Bookshop workers strike for penalty rates, secure jobs and a pay rise 2025-12-13 [Green Left Weekly]

National strike called by main union disrupts transport and school services 2025-12-13 [The Post]

Second day of strike at 75% participation 2025-12-13 [The Portugal News]

Quebec Montreal STM OT strike: Union says public will feel ‘no effect’ 2025-12-13 [CITY]

What the new labour ordinance means for workers 2025-12-13 [The Daily Star]

‘Government attack’ on labor workers sees major Portugal strike severely impact travel, public services 2025-12-13 [The Post]

England Revealed - last battling words of union activist who fought for equal pay in Birmingham 2025-12-13 [Live]

Gujarat Goldi Solar Workers Protest: Wage Hike, PF & Benefits Demand Gains Momentum 2025-12-13 [The Blunt Times]

Maharashtra Pune IT Employee Booked for Forged Experience Letter; Union Flags Withheld Exit Documents 2025-12-13 [Pune Pulse]

Tamil Nadu AITUC-affiliated agricultural labourers’ body opposes renaming of MGNREGA 2025-12-13 [The Indian News]

The ATO is meant to be bringing work back in-house. But its target to cut consultants is ‘woefully inadequate’ 2025-12-13 [The Guardian]

Starbucks workers mass walk- out in 34 cities of the USA 2025-12-13 [The News Line]

Shipbreaking workers' union demands Tk 36,000 minimum wage 2025-12-13 [The Daily Star]

Strikes Loom as Tunisia's Government Undermines Labor Union 2025-12-13 [Stratfor]

Developers at Microsoft-owned Doom studio id Software form union with CWA 'to take back control of the industry we love' 2025-12-13 [Eurogamer]

TSA plans to bust labor union despite court order blocking it 2025-12-13 [Government Executive]

Quebec Union accuses Montreal transit authority of waging a ‘scare campaign’ to justify arbitration 2025-12-13 [CTV]

LabourStart Segment Script for RadioLabour Episode of 12-12-2025 2025-12-13 [LNN]

Being a trade unionist is your human right 2025-12-13 [RadioLabour]

England 'Equal pay settlement a great day for women workers': Payouts are expected to total more than £250m 2025-12-13 [BBC]

Porter flight dispatchers could strike in January as union backs job action 2025-12-13 [Global]

Ontario Canadian Union of Public Employees supporters demonstrate outside Cornwall's Resident Café 2025-12-13 [The Standard-Freeholder]

100-day plan: a good start but more sustainable investments needed 2025-12-13 [UTE-PSAC]

CUPE criticizes federal AI consultation process 2025-12-13 [CUPE]

Ontario CUPE education workers in London urge the Ford government to address dangerous staffing crisis 2025-12-13 [CUPE]

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