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Buncha John Deere workers going on strike. Edit: page snype solidarity with the distillery workers, too
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Tom Smykowski posted:Buncha John Deere workers going on strike. Whoa, drat. Am I just lacking context or does it feel like strikes are accelerating in frequency?
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Sep 14, 2021 13:57
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kingcobweb posted:sorry for all of y'all who were about to get a whiskey sour at a dive bar followed by some chips ahoy How about instead of a walk-out strike, they go in and do the job as usual but just steal from the register?
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Sep 15, 2021 01:10
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Labour is entitled to all it creates. They should drink all the booze.
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Sep 15, 2021 01:25
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They're halting all of the striking workers health insurance in the Heaven Hill strike. Pretty cool place.
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Sep 16, 2021 15:16
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hey so I had to quit my job to keep my kids alive is there any useful thing I can do like join the IWW or something? I feel like a worthless piece of poo poo.
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Sep 16, 2021 17:49
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Tulip posted:Whoa, drat. These material conditions ain't so hot
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Sep 16, 2021 22:05
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:hey so I had to quit my job to keep my kids alive Ain't worthless doing that for your kids, my man. I dunno about joining the iww, prob depends a lot on where you're at.
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Sep 16, 2021 22:06
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you can volunteer with EWOC: https://workerorganizing.org/
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Sep 16, 2021 23:03
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Anyone have any reading suggestions for getting the word out about a protest?
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Sep 16, 2021 23:31
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kingcobweb posted:you can volunteer with EWOC: https://workerorganizing.org/ ok will look into this if I ever become a worker again it will 100% be an organizing effort. gently caress helping capital ever again.
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Sep 17, 2021 00:54
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union organizing jobs are hard to get  I applied for organizer in training at SEIU, and even with experience as a union steward and a job in political organizing, I didn’t make it past the “group interview” they had like twelve of us innon-“in training” job postings I didn’t even get an email back about btw my new labor platform is to outlaw group interviews. awful
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Sep 17, 2021 01:59
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oh well that is loving encouraging
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Sep 17, 2021 02:31
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group interviews are abysmal. who's idea were they and who finds them useful in the hiring process.
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Sep 17, 2021 03:09
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:hey so I had to quit my job to keep my kids alive You're not a worthless piece of poo poo. You gotta do what you have to do to take care of your kids, if that means quitting then so be it. The IWW will depend on your branch. There might be things you can do to help out, but they should periodically run things like organiser training that you can use later, or that you can pass on to others. Can't hurt to contact them.
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Sep 17, 2021 03:40
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:oh well that is loving encouraging the good news is that any working class job is a union organizing job... whether your boss knows it or not  in all seriousness, please don't feel worthless because of what did, or does, or will get you a paycheck. plenty of our most famous historical organizers had day jobs as normal workers. that's how they became organizers! if you choose to go back to work, don't sweat it if you can't officially work for a union. instead, you could get a job at something that already has a union (even if it's, eg, a grocery store, which here in the PacNW are all unionized except Trader Joe's) and get involved by going to union meetings, becoming a steward, running for elected union office, etc etc. most of these are filled with the same five 50+ people who've been going to the meetings and not getting anything done for fifteen years, and one of them made the union local's website in 1998 and has updated it twice since. (joining a non-union job with the intention of unionizing it is the xxtreme hard mode version of this.)
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Sep 17, 2021 03:59
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oh, and i just picked up the new Jane McAlevey book, A Collective Bargain. it's under 300 pages and only in hardcover, but it's a great introductory "what's a union and why does it matter?" kind of book (she seems to have written more and more generally accessible books since her first one). i recommend finding a PDF of it. also check bargain tables, i got two at (UNIONIZED!!) Elliott Bay Book Company in seattle for $8 each. buy them for your lib friends for the holidays!
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Sep 17, 2021 04:02
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I went to a labor notes deal on forming a caucus within a local and Jesus Christ some of the stories of those old guys whove been running things since 1998
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Sep 17, 2021 04:03
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kingcobweb posted:union organizing jobs are hard to get i kind of fell into it and i wasn't paid by the union, a support role was funded as part of a merger of two trusts to deal with any issues that cropped up around there. when that finished and i went back to school the union were only able to offer me one day funded, which was sweet to offer but i didn't want because even in gigantic institutional unions the competition is typically quite fierce.
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Sep 17, 2021 12:06
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also they don't call us "workers" because we enjoy working, it's because we have to. everybody has to eat.kingcobweb posted:
haha, mine was the same people who had been getting some things done, some of them for like 45 years? the culture in the north of england is so so different.
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Sep 17, 2021 12:10
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I was a council rep in my last union and it was the most infuriating bullshit I ever had to do. but I did it because I got my rep position because nobody else wanted to do it.
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Sep 17, 2021 12:24
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:I was a council rep in my last union and it was the most infuriating bullshit I ever had to do.  We have one of the most infuriating, spoiled, FYGM bargaining units of all time. poo poo still has to get done.
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Sep 17, 2021 15:20
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If anyone's interested in ways to deal with lovely leadership, check out the Chicago teaches union and how they were able to use their CORE caucus to win elections and oust the lovely folks.
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Sep 17, 2021 15:42
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 LADIES, GENTS, NB NLRB FANS... RESUME SNACKING https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1439342477396234241
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Sep 18, 2021 22:39
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it feels like another kinda weak result similar to fritolay. 60c a year isn't much, and they caved on management forcing 12 hour weekend shifts with no OT. but who am i, I'm not in those factories so maybe it's a big win relative to the old conditions. and making them pay out 5k to everyone is pretty cool
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Sep 18, 2021 23:07
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Looks like it still adds some structure to that weekend poo poo so it's a start. I know some guys who work in non union food factories and it's just poo poo all the way around. They get squeezed in every way possible.
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Sep 18, 2021 23:22
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In Training posted:it feels like another kinda weak result similar to fritolay. 60c a year isn't much, and they caved on management forcing 12 hour weekend shifts with no OT. but who am i, I'm not in those factories so maybe it's a big win relative to the old conditions. and making them pay out 5k to everyone is pretty cool $5k is a big deal because it basically means that they earned their normal wages for striking instead of working if the vote actually comes in overwhelmingly for adopting it then it's probably a good contract this part is the only concern i have, depending on how it is in practice- https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1439342599324585985 this sounds an awful lot like a "two tiered" contract that throws new employees under the bus in exchange for helping the more senior people. hopefully it isn't, but if it is that's not good! it's intended to undermine solidarity!
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Sep 18, 2021 23:30
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I guess that depends on how their bid system works?
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Sep 18, 2021 23:34
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seems like nabisco's opening health care offer of "we have you all executed" gave them a really good negotiating position.
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Sep 19, 2021 00:48
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it’s good they got some improvement but I wouldn’t be thrilled I don’t work there though, so who knows — contract negotiations are so much harder than anyone on the outside ever knows; getting anything is always a win. it’s a poo poo thing, but the way it is, for now
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Sep 19, 2021 22:32
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kingcobweb posted:this sounds an awful lot like a "two tiered" contract that throws new employees under the bus in exchange for helping the more senior people. hopefully it isn't, but if it is that's not good! it's intended to undermine solidarity! Precisely, and they’re very effective at it.
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Sep 20, 2021 00:05
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I hear you, my union has some advantages in bargaining because we are Federal contractors, so the government puts pressure on the employer to maintain labor peace, and they can't recruit scabs without putting them through the suitability check which can take a month. Even with these advantages, we couldn't get everything we wanted, and management still pulled poo poo like adding a "benefits administration fee" deduction from our paychecks during collective bargaining. At least we get paid a living wage and are sometimes treated like professionals rather than replaceable cogs in a machine. It's an ongoing battle, and we have to fight back all the time against constant small acts of wage theft, as well as attacks on our dignity.
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Sep 20, 2021 00:13
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Management during negotiations: we ain't giving you poo poo Management after negotiations: how can we take this poo poo away again
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Sep 20, 2021 00:26
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Looks like basically the entire entertainment industry going on strike soon
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Sep 24, 2021 23:21
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cool, get paid
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Sep 26, 2021 21:35
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IATSE members will be voting to authorize the strike next weekend  myself included
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Sep 27, 2021 00:45
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good luck all. is there a good write up as to what the scope of this would be (what locals it covers, how many workers and workplaces affected etc.) if the strike authorization passes?
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Sep 27, 2021 00:51
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this might also work in the sports thread, but some good news out of the NLRB today https://twitter.com/sportslawguy/status/1443220255002742784?s=21 https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/nlrb-general-counsel-jennifer-abruzzo-issues-memo-on-employee-status-of (the memo itself is in the press release, and she starts by throwing the phrase "student-athlete" in the trash)
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Sep 29, 2021 16:32
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In Training posted:good luck all. is there a good write up as to what the scope of this would be (what locals it covers, how many workers and workplaces affected etc.) if the strike authorization passes? I don't know about a write-up but there's a whole lot of organizing/solidarity-building going on at @ia_stories on instagram. I've learned everything I know about the strike from there
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Sep 29, 2021 18:07
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big Seattle union news, in the long line of “union members have to hold union leadership accountable”: https://publicola.com/2021/09/16/misogynistic-attacks-accusations-of-interference-by-sawant-as-carpenters-union-strikes/ tldr the carpenters union is functioning less like a union and more like a broker, so rank and file members are striking where leadership isn’t allowing them to strike to get a good contract
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