Discuss labor unions, how to organize them, where to find them, and so on and so forth.
Question about union-busting reorg
So, I’m not in a union, sadly, but I know folks who are, and I’m having trouble understanding something that’s going on with them. Their employer is “reorganizing” jobs. They are going department by department (mostly office stuff afaik, not men in the field) and laying off union workers. They then cut the number of those jobs (if they keep them at all), and re-categorize them as “managerial”/non-union. Then people have to reapply to a pool to maybe get that now-non-union job back (or be assigned to a different managerial position).
As far as we know, their union rep was present when this stuff started. So he’s aware, and seemingly fine with it. This makes no sense to me. Isn’t this a form of union-busting? Isn’t this why they have a rep? The company seemingly waited till right after their last union meeting. So it’ll be a month before they gather and can say anything that way. Most of the union folks I know just seem to shrug as though there’s nothing they can do since their rep is
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
(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
Este es un comunicado de prensa del Local 1 del Sindicato de Trabajadores de Amazon - Hermandad Internacional de Camioneros (ALU-IBT por sus siglas en inglés) publicado el 13 de diciembre. Panorama-Mundial anima a nuestros lectores a tomar medidas para apoyar al sindicato, ya que se está preparando ...
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de #PanoramaMundial / #WorldOutlook
diciembre 14, 2024
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...
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from #WorldOutlook
December 14, 2024
Unionists across the United States are organizing a campaign to get fellow trade unionists, elected officials, and others to sign a letter to President Biden demanding he remove Cuba from the U.S. list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism."
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from World Outlook
By Mark Friedman
November 29, 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
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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...
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from World Outlook By world-outlook.com on November 16, 2024
What labor unions are saying about Trump's win
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All of these unions endorsed Harris. In the wake of Trump’s victory last night, here’s what they’re saying about how they’ll move forward.
BY AJ Hess November 6, 2024
'Strikes Work!' Boeing Union Workers Win Tentative Contract with 35% Wage Increase
"The fact the company has put forward an improved proposal is a testament to the resolve and dedication of the frontline workers who've been on strike—and to the strong support they have received from so many," said the machinists and aerospace workers.
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.
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 ...
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—Despite heavy security which prevented them from surrounding the U.S. Capitol, thousands of protesters jammed Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a mass march Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON—Despite heavy security which prevented them from surrounding the U.S. Capitol, thousands of protesters jammed Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a mass march Wednesday. They declared him “a war criminal,” demanded his arrest, and blasted U.S. aid to and complicity with his ongoing genocidal war on Gaza.
The protests continued even as Netanyahu spoke to a joint meeting of Congress, thanking Democratic President Joe Biden for weapons shipments since the Israeli military launched its massive retaliatory invasion of Gaza last October.
The far-right PM lavished even more praise on former Republican President Donald Trump—a white nationalist, misogynist, convicted felon—and once again the party’s nominee. Both Netanyahu and Trump seek to again split the Democratic coalition that backed Biden and is now coalescing around Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy to succeed him.
Using a Cold War ins
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
This is the South’s Next Worker Uprising
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Shawn Fain does give me hope.
Monthly Review | A blue collar biography of a Union President, rooted in firsthand experience (Ron Carey and the Teamsters in ‘Portside’)
Each phase of Carey’s rise and fall, as recounted in “Putting Members First,” is worthy of close study by those seeking to follow in his footsteps as a shop-floor militant, an opposition candidate for…
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Anyone else know Ron Carey?