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Workers across the U.S. and Canada are launching United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433, a direct-join, industry-wide video game union with CWA, in partnership with the American Federation of Musicians.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27419929
This is a statement by the Amazon Labor Union – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (ALU-IBT Local 1) defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The ALU represents Amazon workers at the company's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27288708
March 12, 2025
"The ALU statement sets a good example of how the labor movement needs to treat immigrant workers: as fellow workers, as brothers and sisters.
This question has become urgent as the Trump administration has escalated raids, arrests, and deportations of immigrants under the guise of expelling “foreign criminals” from the United States. "
In a lopsided loss, Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE) failed to secure a majority in a union vote held February 10-15 in Garner, North Carolina. The vote was 2,447 against to 829 for joining the union. About 76% of the approximately 4,300 workers eligible to vote cast...
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By Mark Satinoff
March 6, 2025“The election results today are a result of Amazon’s willingness to break the law and use its enormous wealth to try and break our movement,” said a statement by the #CAUSE leadership following the vote. “We will continue organizing. This is only the beginning.”
“In the weeks leading up to the vote #Amazon threw its full weight and power into its union-busting arsenal of intimidation and lies,” Mary Hill, known affectionately by many workers as Ma Mary, told World-Outlook in a phone interview. Hill is a co-founder and vice president of CAUSE. “Amazon flew in union busters from all over the country, at least 30 of them. They were all over the place, like roaches. They get paid $3,000/day plus expenses.”
Labor’s future will also be decided by its response to a reactionary political climate, and whether it can overcome two sinister and mutually reinforcing dynamics that are now at play in the movement: opportunistic collaboration with Trumpism along narrow sectoral lines, and the embrace of an “Ameri...
I worry about this as well; that reactionary currents in Trump's America will so overwhelm everything else that otherwise-legitimate political impulses will be co-opted by the right. It's easy to imagine people wanting to "do something" and finding it convenient to direct their energies into the movements and ideologies they find among the fascist mainstream.
Union Election Set at North Carolina Amazon Warehouse - ‘An Historic Moment in South’: Interview with CAUSE President
On January 7, exactly three years since the founding of Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that workers at Amazon’s RDU1 fulfillment center in Garner, North Carolina, have submitted union authorization cards exceeding th...
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By Mark Satinoff
January 15, 2025
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24509847
from #DropSiteNews [you may get a request to sign up for free subscription]
" As we reported earlier, Amazon workers at seven locations around the country organized a strike timed for the holidays to try to force Amazon to the bargaining table. These are workers who have already voted and decided to form a union, yet Amazon is simply refusing to recognize them or meet with them. Public pressure and striking is the only route left for those workers.
The #union has organized a petition calling on Amazon to recognize the union and enter into contract negotiations."
Ryan Grim Jan 06, 2025
In this December 23 news release, Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE) announced that it filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board requesting an election at Amazon's RDU1 giant fulfillment center in Garner, North Carolina, "to become the first unionized Am...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24215236
By world-outlook.com on December 24, 2024
The workers’ union hopes that adding employees at the Staten Island warehouse to a protest started by delivery drivers will increase pressure on Amazon.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23937251
By Santul Nerkar and Noam Scheiber
Dec. 21, 2024[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
(WASHINGTON) – The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action f
The following is a press release by the Amazon Labor Union - International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1. World-Outlook is encouraging its readers to take the action the union suggests to support the workers at JFK8, Amazon's giant fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, as they are prepar...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23647066
from #WorldOutlook
December 14, 2024
'We were demonized’: labor unions win big in ruling on Wisconsin’s Act 10
Judge overturned ex-governor Scott Walker’s notorious law that stripped employees’ collective bargaining rights
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23368357
Michael Sainato December 8, 2024. 0700 EST
After 53 days on strike, members of International Association of Machinists voted on November 4 to approve Boeing’s third contract offer. The most important gain for workers was a significant wage increase — 38% over four years. Boeing also agreed to bonus payments and increased company contribution...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22680798
from World Outlook By world-outlook.com on November 16, 2024
This article by Luis Feliz Leon, first published by Labor Notes, describes how the Teamsters and other unions are spinning off momentum from recent organizing fights to new battle fronts across Amazon’s logistics chain.
Boeing halts talks, withdraws pay offer to union as strike drags on
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/17842009
Oct 9 (Reuters) - Talks between Boeing (BA.N) and its key manufacturing union broke down, and no negotiations are currently planned as the financially damaging strike heads into a fourth week. The company said on Tuesday it withdrew its pay offer to around 33,000 U.S. factory workers, saying the union had not considered its proposals seriously after two days of talks. The stalemate shows no signs of resolution, a person briefed on the talks said. "Unfortunately, the union did not seriously consider our proposals," Boeing Commercial Airplanes head Stephanie Pope said in a note to the employees, calling the union's demands "non-negotiable". "Further negotiations do not make sense at this point," she said. The breakdown compounds financial and production problems at Boeing, one of the two primary global commercial aircraft makers. The company has been burning cash in 2024 as it struggles to recover from a January mid-ai
Teamsters Decline to Endorse in 2024 US Presidential Race
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters breaks tradition by not endorsing a candidate in the U.S. presidential election. Will this non-endorsement impact the outcome of the election? #Teamsters #Election2020
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20521227
Julia Conley
Sep 18, 2024
Boeing strike: bosses bruised, blindsided and on brink of crisis
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/16916354
SEATTLE, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Boeing bosses are staring down the barrel. The twists and turns of the past week paint a picture of managers badly wrong-footed by the depth of fury among workers who tossed out a 25% pay increase deal and launched strike action. "They probably didn't think that we had enough people for the strike," Kushal Varma, a Boeing mechanic, told Reuters. "But this is a movement of people who are willing to put their livelihoods on the line to get what's fair." With little time to regroup, and pressure mounting, management enters a fresh week of talks to contain the crisis at the $97 billion U.S. aerospace champion (BA.N) , opens new tab. A week ago, Boeing executives believed they'd done enough to secure the pay deal with around 33,000 workers in Washington state, the heart of the company's global manufacturing operations, according to two people directly involved in the talks that have played out
The following letter from the Amazon Labor Union – International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1 was sent on September 4, 2024, to workers at JFK8, Amazon’s giant warehouse in Staten Island, New York. It is aimed at reaching out to all JFK8 workers and drawing them into a discussion on determining ...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20058050
September 7, 2024
Union leaders told World-Outlook that while the letter is addressed to ALU members at JFK8 its content is public information.
WASHINGTON—On the morning of June 5, a coalition of D.C. labor union locals led a picket action in front of the John A. Wilson Building on Pennsylvania Ave, which houses Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office and the D.C. Council.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2742219
Check out the article below:
WASHINGTON—On the morning of June 5, a coalition of D.C. labor union locals led a picket action in front of the John A. Wilson Building on Pennsylvania Ave, which houses Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office and the D.C. Council. The picket action was one of the first labor-led demonstrations in the country featuring a coalition of unions fighting for a ceasefire resolution at a municipal level.
The coalition featured leaders and rank-and-file members from the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), SAG-AFTRA & Sister Guild Members for Ceasefire, IWW DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee, UAW, American Postal Workers Union (APWU), AFA-CWA, SEIU Local 500, ATU Local 689, and the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees.
The demonstration follows nearly eight months of Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza and countless efforts by t
Links between Yellowhammer’s ownership and Alabama’s anti-union forces shed light on what autoworkers are up against.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2463555
Read the entire thing here:
Last week, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey lambasted the United Auto Workers (UAW) in a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) ahead of a union vote at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, set for mid-May. Ivey has been campaigning for months against autoworker unionization in the state.
Ivey’s post referenced an anti-union op-ed by Nathaniel Ledbetter, speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, to which Ivey added: “The UAW is NOT the good guy here. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for calling out the UAW for what it is — corrupt, shifty and a dangerous leech.” Her post went semi-viral, garnering over 400,000 views, and it was reposted by her close political ally in resistance to autoworker unionization, the Business Council of Alabama (BCA).
My therapist sent me this on May Day!
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2436414
Fae's also Autistic, like me.
Fae didn't know it was technically an American holiday till I told faer today for our therapy session.
Fun fact: the wife of the person that was executed became a CPUSA member (the wife of one of the leaders of the group)!
Her house was burned down and the FBI took all her papers from the wreckage, her burnt memoirs and all that, and whatever else she was writing.
All that history... lost.