Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
Unions Are Finally Teaching Elon Musk a Lesson in Europe, and the U.S. Could Be Next (Jules Roscoe / VICE)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He’s also notoriously anti-union on a global scale. But Tesla workers throughout Europe are taking a stand against the company for refusing to sign collective bargaining agreements with them, something workers in the U.S. haven’t yet been able to accomplish. But U.S. unions such as United Auto Workers, which just won a historic deal after striking against other car manufacturers, are sizing up Tesla, and European organizing success might be the push they need.
Swedish Tesla workers went on strike on Friday after Musk refused to bargain with Swedish trade union IF Metall. Though U.S. Tesla workers have attempted to organize, and have allegedly been fired for doing so, this is the first time a formal strike has been called against the company anywhere in the world.
‘Like becoming a refugee again’: They paid for their crimes. The US deported them anyway (Vivian Ho / The Guardian)
While the crimes that led to these deportations vary – from drug possession to check fraud to murder – many of the former prisoners have gone through counseling, attended classes and participated in restorative justice programs. They either fulfilled their sentences or underwent the taxing process of getting approved for parole. But as they’re finally released – to reunite with their families and to rebuild the communities they played a part in shattering – the US is punishing them once more by exiling them from their home and loved ones.
They are, for all intents and purposes, handed a second sentence – this time for life.
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