Jan Willem Goudriaan

ETUC calls for Quality Jobs on World Day for Decent Work joining @ituc.bsky.social to demand a new Social Contract that delivers progress for workers and for democracy

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years since Israeli government started its indiscriminate war on people in Gaza, now called genocide by UN body. Our thoughts are with the family friends coworkers of the nearly 67.000 people killed

Unions have condemned this, many joining demonstrations, strikes to demand an end to the killing

It is 2 years since the terrorist attack of Hamas on Israel that killed 1200. @epsu.bsky.social and the global labour movement condemned it. Our thoughts were and are with the people who lost family, friends, coworkers and with those who saw family members taken hostage. We remember

It is now 2

Federal workers sue the Education Department over partisan shutdown emails Employees say their out-of-office messages were changed without their consent to include language blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

US government changes out of office emails of workers. Union files a lawsuit www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

Dehumanising the opposition

What do you do with gnats ?

Spray, hit... and who cares if you kill them? You can do with impunity

Dehumanising a step to beat up, lock up and worse...

This is what the far-/ radical, extreme right does also in Europe...questioning and undermining the legal institutions like ECHR and judges and their findings they do not like

The US government has declared war on the opposition and democrats, startibg to dehumanise them

Text book example of how the US glides away into an authoritarian state

And not hard to imagine where this will go.

Irish unions on the street today for free Palestine and in protest over arrest of activists of Sumud flotilla

Similar protests in France, Spain, Belgium supported by unions

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

Corporate tech CEOs love to talk about a future under surveillance

The dystopian novel The Circle of Dave Eggers describes what it can do to people

And the tech bros probably have the resources to scam and create space for themselves

We have to limit their wealth

fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...

Working people understood: fascists do not offer a better future

Lesson worthwhile remembering

Including fighting if needed

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

Construction workers at nuclear site Shellafield on #strike with @unitetheunion.bsky.social demanding better pay

#solidarity

Workers Sue Vought for Threatening to Use Shutdown to Fire Them Multiple labor unions sued the OMB director for abusing his position and pushing an extremist Project 2025 agenda.

ICYMI US unions have brought a lawsuit against Vought [leader of project 2025] for illegally tryibg to fire them abusing the shutdown

Includes sister unions @afscme.bsky.social AFGE

@fedworkersunited.bsky.social

We wish them success

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Column of @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the true cost of austerity, in the UK and so true elsewhere

Slashing budgets for health care like in France Netherlands and elsewhere kills... and we miss out on the important multiplier effect

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Journalist Mario Guevara Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump Protest Human rights organizations have condemned Mario Guevara’s deportation as an authoritarian attack on the free press.

Many issues in the arrest and deportation of journalist

One certainly is that establishing a fascist regime requires the complicity of many like the judges in this case

#journalismisnotacrime

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Donald Trump orders Israel to ‘immediately’ stop bombing Gaza as Hamas agrees to free hostages Palestinian militant group accepts part of US president’s plan but seeks further negotiations on many terms

Some coverage of the acceptance of the Gaza plan by Hamas and Israel

Despite call on Israeli government to stop bombing it still did this morning

And several arrested activists of the Sumud flotilla including union members of @forsatradeunion.bsky.social and CGIL FP have not yet been heard off

Strange: German government allows Taliban diplomats and seeks to send back Afghans that fled their terror.

And why? What interests does Germany have there? Or which companies?

Will it make support for education of women easier through development aid?

Puzzled

But will he support publicly owned and democratically governed clouds with role for unions and digital rights defenders at EU level as an alternative?

Or moaning that French companies did not get a share of the market? And French language not as dominant as US english?

There are alternatives

The scales should fall off people's eyes

Simplification = deregulation

A European Commission President focused on delivering for corporations and rich

Not deliveribg for workers, communities, planet

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Workers in Europe are angered and on the streets and in strikes

Από τη σημερινή, Τετάρτη 1 Οκτωβρίου 2025, πανελλαδική απεργία - ΑΔΕΔΥ Από τη σημερινή, Τετάρτη 1 Οκτωβρίου 2025, πανελλαδική απεργία

ICYMI Greek public service confederation Adedy and private sector GSEE organised national #strike 1 Oct.

For 35h working week; against 13h working day. For collective bargaining and restoration of cuts

Europe's workers angered over direction policies are taking

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Αλληλεγγύη στην Παλαιστίνη και στον διεθνή στόλο Global Sumud Flotilla - ΑΔΕΔΥ ΔΕΛΤΙΟ ΤΥΠΟΥ Αλληλεγγύη στην Παλαιστίνη και στον διεθνή στόλο Global Sumud Flotilla   Η Εκτελεστική Επιτροπή της Α.Δ.Ε.Δ.Υ. δηλώνει την αταλάντευτη στήριξή της στον αγώνα αλληλεγγύης για να σπάσει ο α...

Greek public service workers confederation declares its solidarity with Palestinian people and the Sumud Flotilla

Greek government must not support Israeli government

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Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

In Chicago:

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Court restores union rights for thousands of DODEA teachers A federal judge restored an injunction in a bench ruling that blocks an executive order that would remove federal employees’ collective bargaining rights.

Thousands of educators at U.S. military-funded schools overseas and stateside may continue participating in union activities following back-to-back court rulings in favor of unions representing federal workers.

‘Put Working People First’: Unions Respond to Government Shutdown | AFL-CIO AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement after the federal government’s funding expired at midnight and a shutdown began:

From coast to coast, from ironworkers to teachers to air traffic controllers to nurses, labor unions are making it clear: Trump & Congressional Republicans must prioritize the needs of working folks. It's time to protect our care and fund the government. aflcio.org/2025/10/1/pu...

Today
Killing of 2 Jewish people and 4 injured in Manchester is horrific

Tens of people died in #Gaza including staff member MSF

Thoughts for family, friends, and co-workers. First responders and emergency staff working in dangerous and unclear circumstances deserve our sympathy

Explaining Trump wants to turn the US military against the people in Democrat governed cities, @gregpalast.bsky.social calls out the US Minister Hegseth's nonsense - and the insult to all the women serving in the US army past and present (KIA, MIA, injured) with his reference to male warrior spirit

Fria arbetsskor till personliga assistenter och stödassistenter i Göteborgs stad Efter Kommunals påverkan betalar nu Göteborgs stad arbetsskor åt personliga assistenter och stödassistenter. –Det hade aldrig gått om det bara var jag. Vi är många som jobbat från olika håll, säger So...

Swedish union Kommunal campaigns for free shoes for personal assistants, child, health and social care workers

And is successful as more and more employers pay for the shoes

Better protection

It pays to be union. Stronger together.

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