"It went from care over profit to profit over care real fast." 💔
Dialysis workers at Fresenius & DaVita are organizing with unions like @seiu-uhw.bsky.social for better jobs - and better patient care.
Show solidarity by sharing their stories & joining their fight! ✊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08eV...
“Music can be a call to arms, but music itself changes nothing. It won’t go further unless you are determined to act upon it.” Bob Geldof, the rock star-turned-activist who helped organize Live Aid 40 years ago, reflected on the benefit concert’s impact and why it could not happen today.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
"They say we're the ones protecting the internet, keeping kids safe online," the Filipino worker said, "But we are not protected enough."
Content moderators — organised in our global alliance — spoke to Reuters about the mental trauma from their work.
With billionaires in the discourse again, here are some great reads on the topic of extreme wealth
JOBS 4 COMRADES!!!
Apply, share amongst yr networks pls.
🔴 Training Materials Development Consultant
W newly established Competence Centre for Human
Rights Due Diligence:
🔴 Head of the Competence Centre
🔴 Programme Manager
🔴 Strategic Legal & Policy Advisor
More info uniglobalunion.org/jobs/
Australian music is freakin excellent. SO (too) many great songs to choose from! hottest100.abc.net.au/browse #hottest100 #triplej
This is CRAaaaaaaaaaaZEEE.
Land of the free?
ICE is out. of. control.
Cleaners like Hayat have seen their working conditions erode over past decades.
Employers haven't bid for public contracts because of lowest-price competition.
MEPs in the Parliament's IMCO Committee, we all want stronger collective bargaining in public procurement rules – and we want it now.
“We deserve fair pay & good jobs.”
Today, European unions representing 45 million workers launched a campaign in the Brussels metro, with essential workers calling on MEPs in the IMCO Committee to strengthen collective bargaining in the ongoing efforts to reform public procurement.
Was great to be part of the UNI team at #ILC2025 this year, working with affiliates and allies to get these important conclusions up.
I stand with Domestic Workers around the world today and every day. The world stops without them.
Endorse and implement ILO Convention 189 #C189
International Domestic Workers Day.
Comrades, you can read the Report of the Director General of the Arab Labor Organization on the Israeli Settlements and their Economic and Social Effects on Employers and Workers in
Palestine and the Other Occupied Arab territories, here: alolabor.org/wp-content/u... #ILC2025 #FreePalestine
Solidarity with Palestinian workers, and the Palestinian people #FreePalestine #EndTheOccupation #ILC2025
📢 NEW REPORT: Accelerating Decent Work!
Based on surveys of 8,700+ care workers, it shows why formalizing home & community care is urgent.
How we win rights, respect & recognition? In Union!✊
🔗 uniglobalunion.org/news/formalizing_care
#Care4Carers #ILC2025 #UnionPower
Photo featuring a young Black woman,head and shoulders, facing forwards, looking right, with hair tied up with white flowers and wearing a yellow lace top against a vibrant green background
'Afro Art' is a series of portraits celebrating the beauty and versatility of black hair inspired by Baroque period artworks, by Kahran Bethencourt (and partner Regis) aka Creative Soul #womensart
A smiling blonde woman with one eyebrow raised. She has blue eyes and blue-green-purple cat eye glasses. She is wearing a blue and black polka dot collared dress and beaded necklace and earrings.
Hi! Worth a shot: it's my birthday and I'm pretty close to 4000 followers. I'm a scientist studying how kidney injury in young people affects reproductive health AND their future kids' health, nerdy musician (@pdxbroadsides.bsky.social), MC, and 85% Muppet. Would your friends like me? Tell 'em. ❤️
Happy Birthday Dr. Hebert. As the mother of a child with 1 remaining kidney, your research sounds very interesting. Following for sure!
There was one thing RFK Junior said today that made a lot of sense so I’m gonna share it:
Of all the weird and f*ç^ed up things happening across the world right now, this is def in the top 5. Like WTF Liz??
That is in fact what this administration has done.
'And I will not yield to disrespectful men.'
Wow. Keir Starmer social media binge posting about being 'tough on borders and migrants' is so cringe (and devisive and dog whistley)! He is really vying hard for ScoMo's 'I Stopped the Boats' trophy hey.
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"The time to just tell patients to go home and try again is over," Ms Oderberg said.
The new guidelines very specifically say that women are able to access further testing to find out the cause, after 2 non-consecutive miscarriages.
#miscarriage #pregnancyloss
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
My 11 year old found this baby photo of himself and made me the best #MothersDay card ever! #Nevermind #Nirvana #grunge
If you're in Berlin next week, there's a screening of this documentary by displaced Sudanese filmmakers which premiered at the Sundance Festival earlier this year & follows five residents during the war (I haven't seen it yet but want to www.goethe.de/prj/gex/en/v...).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMyt...
Colurful painted artwork with circular symbolic and significant symbols and motifs and lines against a multicoloured background
Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia, who founded an art centre for Indigenous artists #WomensArt
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