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Greenland’s Trade Union Leader Runs for Office to Beat Trump
In Greenland, the largest trade union, SIK, sees the Trump Administration as such a threat to workers that its president, Jess G. Bertelsen, has decided to run for a seat in Greenland’s parliament, Inatsisartut.
“We know how members of US trade unions are being treated and how the US treats people who have economic challenge(s). We do not wish this. We have a really good Nordic model in our labour market and we need to defend this now,” Bertlesen told the Nordic Labour Journal. “
For more, check out the Nordic Labour Journal
Federal Workers Regain Jobs in 1st Successful Challenge to Trump Administration
Earlier this week, a new memo was leaked that outlined massive layoffs that the Trump Administration wants to implement. The Trump Administration has even proposed eliminating 65% of the workers at the Environmental Protection Agency.
(Read AP’s coverage of the Trump Administration on the newly proposed mass firings here)
However, some federal workers are beginning to win their jobs back. Six federal workers employed at six different agencies just won their jobs back after the Office of Special Counsel filed a charge with the Merit System Protection Board.
The case could be groundbreaking and open the way to reversing other firings.
"I find that there are reasonable grounds to believe that each of the six agencies engaged in a prohibited personnel practice," stated the order from board member Raymond A. Limon.
After Spending $8 Million on Super Bowl Ad, NYU Langone Says It Can’t Meet Union Demands
After spending more than $8 million on a Super Bowl ad touting their hospital, NYU Langone is refusing its nurses union’s demand to increase staffing.
“It shows you their priority. Their priority is their brand. Being in the Super Bowl meant more than letting our good nurses who are trying so hard to serve this community be paid fairly,” UFT union Anne Goldman told NYU News. “It’s just a shame.”
Hollywood Continues to Blacklist Pro-Palestine Voices
Finally, As Hollywood prepares for the Oscars this weekend, many actors say that they are afraid of speaking up on Palestine out of fear of losing work. From teh Nation:
El Gamal says he now hears of “producers and production companies with Excel documents and WhatsApp groups with prominent casting directors sharing lists of people who they see speaking out. I heard at one point there was talk of building an app just to collect names of people who express sympathy with Palestinians on social media.” Still, he says that the same general pattern holds whenever he has pressed people for more information—details become scarce, and a chilling silence sets in.
Pro-Palestinian advocates like Poppy Liu hear ominous overtones in that silence. “As time went on and it became more evident in popular culture and just mass consciousness of what was happening in Gaza, as people were educating themselves, the repercussions became much more covert,” Liu says. “And in this next phase, they won’t name that that’s what it is.”
Liu cites her own experience over the last year, and hears similar stories from friends who feel beset by a backlash that won’t come out in the open. As she announced on her Instagram account, a negotiated job offer with set terms vanished at the last moment: “In a highly unprecedented and unprofessional move, I just had a job offer for a TV show with a 6-year contract suddenly retracted yesterday with no real explanation, and I’m almost certain it’s because I’ve been outspoken against the genocide of Palestinians.”
“The industry is pretty Zionist,” Liu says, “but it’s also small, and everyone talks. I don’t want to reveal stories of friends of mine. But as I was looking into stuff, I knew that one agent had let go two of my personal friends very suddenly. Objectively, these two people are very much rising stars at the top of their career and were suddenly dropped from their agency. And their agents just weren’t able to even come up with a reason. They were just like, ‘We just don’t feel like we’re the right fit suddenly anymore. We feel like we can’t get people interested in you.’”
For more, check out The Nation.
News & Headlines Elsewhere
- SeaWorld workers move to 2nd union vote
- OnPoint United Workers fight to unionize America’s first overdose prevention site
- As Bay Area museums struggle, their workers are moving to unionize
- Minnesota Democrats propose path to unionize for Uber and Lyft drivers
- How DOGE's email to federal employees was ripped from private sector playbook
- Deportation threats give people pause, but not for long, Mexican workers say
- Finally, in India, there is little hope for finding 8 workers alive, who were trapped in the collapse of a tunnel.
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