The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has emerged as a key site of repressive violence amidst the recent protests across American universities in support of Palestine.
Last week, a spark caught ablaze at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant as workers voted to unionize. This victory comes after months of agitation by United Auto Worker (UAW) organizers, as well as retaliatory attacks on such activity by Volkswagen. A local artist, Tabitha Arnold, created a tapestry that visually shows how the workers fanned the flame and ignited a fire within the plant.
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee just voted overwhelmingly to join the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union. This marks a first for workers at a foreign-owned auto plant in the southern region of the United States, which has historically had a weak union presence.
Two femicides occur within days of one another in past week in Peć/Peja and Uroševac/Ferizaj in Kosovo. An annual report about women’s rights in the Western Balkans reported that in 2023, there were 29 cases of reported femicide in Serbia.
Workers of the world are uniting to support Palestinian liberation. Most recently, the 100,000 workers part of the International Alliance of App-Based Transport Workers (IAATW) declared a boycott of Chevron, an American oil and gas company, because of its role in profiting off of and perpetuating Israeli apartheid.
A few hundred students and citizens gathered in front of the Faculty building on Friday to express support for Gruhonjić.
Strategies for trade union organizing and protection of the labor rights of platform workers in Serbia were presented at a round table organized by UGS “Nezavisnost” trade union association and the Association of Independent Trade Unions of Serbia.
No institution in Serbia keeps records of how many delivery workers are injured at work, as stated in the podcast “Delivery Couriers and Traffic Safety – The Price of Risk.” Nevertheless, it’s evident from media headlines, which are significantly fewer than the actual number of such incidents, that delivery workers often face accidents and mishaps while on duty.
Mario Reljanović, an expert in labor law, with no uncertainty tells Mašina that Wolt is the de-facto employer for its couriers. By limiting the ways some couriers can use the app, they are discriminating against foreign workers and lowering the potential earnings of all of its couriers.
Based on Mašina’s findings, part of the foreign workers who make deliveries through the Wolt app are denied the opportunity to see their actual earnings and to choose the deliveries they will work on. In this way, these workers are left with fixed wages, previously agreed on with the intermediary agency, which puts them in an unequal position compared to local delivery workers.
Who can afford education in Belgrade and how do students live? Students of the University of Belgrade answer these questions and present the obstacles they face.
Last week, the “challenge” was terminated for part of the couriers people who work through the Glovo application. As a result, these workers are being deprived of realizing part of their earnings, which are based on completing a certain number of deliveries. Glovo claims it fired these workers because they “misused” the application – but what constitutes misuse and according to whom?
The precarity of female care workers from the Balkan countries in the EU is revealed through the relationship with intermediaries who find their posts but also take a significant percentage of their earnings through fees. This interdependence is not only economic; it is a question of class and female solidarity in a contemporary context.
A great number of women from former Yugoslavia regularly go to Germany and other EU countries to perform care labour. In most cases, they are completely exploited. Moreover, individuals and institutions of the EU countries both create and abuse their situation.
“Why did many Albanians work in the private sector in socialist Yugoslavia? How did the state treat small entrepreneurs and migrating seasonal workers? We discussed these and similar questions with researchers from the Centre for Southeast European Studies.
Mašina spoke to Waltraud Fritz-Klackl, a member of the Communist Party of Austria since the 1970s, who told us about her party’s historical relationship with Yugoslavia, its recent electoral success and the opportunities that lie ahead.
The hopes of Turkey’s opposition forces for a victory in the Turkish elections have been dashed. Incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan narrowly won the second round of the presidential election against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu of the centrist Cumhuriyeti Halk Partisi (CHP). The Cumhur İttifakı of the ruling nationalist-religious Adalet ve Kalkınma Parti (AKP), the ultra-nationalist MHP … Read more
Andrej Hunko visited Belgrade to support Kurdish political activist Ecevit Piroğlu, who has been in prison in Serbia for two years. We spoke to Hunko about the importance of the recent elections in Turkey and about internationalism.
The people of the village of Dadince and environmental activists have saved the crystal-clear Rupska River from being completely destroyed by a mini hydroelectric plant. One of the cleanest rivers in Serbia, the Rupska is the source of drinking water for 15,000 people in two municipalities in the south of the country. For the hundred … Read more
The mayor of Belgrade has threatened to sue citizens who prevent drilling and digging on the Sava River embankment, which protects the city from flooding.
Wolt couriers in Belgrade are fighting for better working conditions.
