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Apple is afraid now. https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/status/1524815279246585863
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/12/23069415/apple-retail-unionization-talking-points-scriptsquote:The report says the company has sent around a document full of talking points like “an outside union that doesn’t know Apple” or its culture." 
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May 13, 2022 15:58
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It's really weird how they keep saying unions are outsiders.
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May 14, 2022 19:43
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Doing some kind of...agitating activity, from where they are on the outside.
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May 15, 2022 15:04
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first starbucks in michigan unionized https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/05/grand-rapids-starbucks-workers-first-to-unionize-in-michigan.html
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May 16, 2022 19:54
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Proletarian Mango posted:first starbucks in michigan unionized Let's goooooooooo!
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Edited because I felt I gave away too much information:.. I just want to know how difficult it is to unionize a higher paid white collar salaried workplace, especially if a union already exists within the company at the plant level. Kraftwerk has issued a correction as of 21:03 on May 17, 2022 |
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May 17, 2022 19:45
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That's something I'd also be interested in since I'm a controls engineer focusing on industrial maintenance and basically all the plants around here (save one a while away) have engineers in managment
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May 17, 2022 21:06
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StashAugustine posted:That's something I'd also be interested in since I'm a controls engineer focusing on industrial maintenance and basically all the plants around here (save one a while away) have engineers in managment Also a controls engineer (I work for a custom machine build company though) who would be interested in this. It's something I've always thought about doing, but the engineers I've worked with tend to skew right wing if they have any sort of political beliefs at all.
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May 17, 2022 22:38
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Kraftwerk posted:Edited because I felt I gave away too much information:.. Lots of white collar jobs unionize. Many of the jobs within my union (CWA) are office jobs: reporters, game designers, QA, etc. etc. Every workplace is different, but not being a Stereotypical Union Job shouldn't stop you.
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May 17, 2022 22:50
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I guess what worries me isn't that engineers aren't stereotypical Union Jobs, it's that we're part of management under the current system; even if there's no hard reason for it
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FWIW management as a job title and "manager" as understood by the NLRB are somewhat different ideas. You're only really a manager if you have independent decision making authority over like, budgets, schedules, hiring/firing, etc.
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kingcobweb posted:Lots of white collar jobs unionize. Many of the jobs within my union (CWA) are office jobs: reporters, game designers, QA, etc. etc. I reached out to the USW - because they already represent like 60+ people at my company in different regions. Their organizer was extremely nice and super helpful. I'm trying to unionize my role, the assistant roles who support me and the procurement team as we all got lumped in together and we're all varying degrees of pissed off... My issue is that I can't figure out how to initiate this topic. The steelworkers want me to map out who they can reach out to to begin organizing efforts but I'm still hesitant. I have a very outspoken coworker who has a husband who works for Amazon so she doesn't care if she loses her job as they'll somehow manage. We talked a bit about my grievances and when I brought up the idea of a union she balked at the topic. She told me it would be an extremely difficult and uphill battle because a lot of the people in the company are dependent on their jobs for their livelihoods and have dependents so trying to rock the boat and unionize would scare the poo poo out of them. She told me the company would far more likely notice if I tried to quit my job than if I tried to unionize it. So that has taken the wind out of my sails a bit. All I know is my role and some of the supporting roles that come with it carry with it an enormous amount of leverage over the company. Even if I just plainly quit my job I'd be putting them in an extremely difficult situation. My boss would have to work nights just to pick up my workload and it would take them at least a few months of this before they could move around my replacement. They can't easily hire external candidates cuz HR is a gong show and most external candidates wouldn't take the job anyway because it underpaid by at least 35-40% relative to the market for this sort of work. Kraftwerk has issued a correction as of 03:24 on May 18, 2022 |
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May 18, 2022 03:20
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Kraftwerk posted:We talked a bit about my grievances and when I brought up the idea of a union she balked at the topic. She told me it would be an extremely difficult and uphill battle because a lot of the people in the company are dependent on their jobs for their livelihoods and have dependents so trying to rock the boat and unionize would scare the poo poo out of them. She told me the company would far more likely notice if I tried to quit my job than if I tried to unionize it. So that has taken the wind out of my sails a bit.
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May 18, 2022 03:47
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Kraftwerk posted:I reached out to the USW - because they already represent like 60+ people at my company in different regions. Their organizer was extremely nice and super helpful. Full disclosure, I have never fully gone through organizing an office, but I did go through some of the initial steps and have done some thinking around white collar organizing I have 2 thoughts that I hope can help. 1.) I think the word "Union" can be almost as bad to use with fellow works as management. Workers "in the office" who know what unions are also usually know that management hates them with a passion. It's a dangerous concept and involves risk. One of my first organizing conversations was with someone who I knew was a socialist, but she dismissed the concept out of hand. Not because she didn't agree, but because the others wouldn't. I think it's a cop out because they're afraid of taking the risk themselves. And as poo poo as stuff can be, office work is still kind of a cushy job by the nature of the work, so I can understand not sticking one's neck out. A buddy of mine in the Teacher's union tells me it's an unspoken rule to never actually use the word union, it's always "the association". 2.) I think the best place to start would be with something low-stakes like a book club or a culture/social club. Make sure there's no budget or management oversight at all, since the point here is to begin asserting worker power & autonomy, even if it's just a sliver. Then invite the people that you think would be useful to have, especially if you know that they are already well-respected and good at their work. It's an easy way to get people together to talk about stuff that isn't specifically work (which I think is part of building the trust necessary to then build up a union). It also gives cross-functional folks an excuse to talk, helps you practice event organizing and leading (if you can get 5 people to voluntarily show up somewhere on their lunch-break, you can get them to do more things too.). Also it does an inverse filter on folks who are totally checked out and wouldn't want to organize anyway.
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check out how yellow unions work: summary: Glitch employees unionzed a while ago. Amazon sold them off to Fastly, and they are now dissolving the union. The managers probably made out like a bandit https://twitter.com/DannyPage/status/1527283840938610689 idk how to fight that. union membership in denmark is on a sharp decline, which is worrying beause we dont actually have a legislated minimum wage. all wages are bargained either individually or through unions (which has historically been a positive), but what happens when the members leave? there is a classic quote: in 1982 Thomas Nielsen, then-chairman of LO (danish union umbrella org) said "vi har sejret ad helvede til" which can be translated to "we have succeeded to hell". nobody alive today even has grandparents who worked before unions. we have become complacent. everyone feels they did it all by themselves. i fear for our meager workers rights. sorry Carthag Tuek has issued a correction as of 23:23 on May 20, 2022 |
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May 20, 2022 23:09
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Workplace status: Organized. https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1528821388798312449?cxt=HHwWgoC-xf-8u7cqAAAA
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May 23, 2022 20:43
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now: GET GOOD CONTRACT
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Lazy Robot posted:Workplace status: Organized. Huge given the labor views of the average gaming employee. Not surprised it's testers, though.
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Who needs Pinkertons https://twitter.com/32BJSEIU/status/1529924470974062592
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https://twitter.com/morgfair/status/1532524375244537856quote:“In Germany an employer cannot dictate the rules just as he likes,” said Birgit Dietze, a regional IG Metall leader, in a statement. “A worker can rely on the strength and power of her or his union if she or he does not want to accept the demands of the company,” she added, recognizing the German constitution’s protections for labor organizing.
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I did union outreach today with leave for union business that's in the contract  We didn't sign anyone up, today, but they'll probably sign eventually. The rep liked the way I pitched the union and I'm gonna present during some orientations.
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knights on horseback are unionizing https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medieval-times-workers-first-union_n_62bb1d29e4b0d26a9b14fa17
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Carthag Tuek posted:check out how yellow unions work: hosed up
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apparently the glitch union's three remaining members decided to dissolve the union after their CBA expired, because they thought the company wouldn't last. that happened before the acquisition. not really a lot to see here. many contracts have a succession clause, basically stating that if a company/organization/etc. is taken over/sold/etc. then the CBA carries over to the new owner. so acquisitions/etc. aren't necessarily a problem e: sounds like glitch downsized their unionized staff and sold the company? idk, that's a lot of speculation JAY ZERO SUM GAME has issued a correction as of 22:53 on Jun 30, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/BrookeZaunerTV/status/1542507881110446081
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there were a ton picketing at JFK on Thursday, too i have a very important delta flight out of LGA on Tuesday, but, i mean, do what you gotta do dudes
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tfw the IT department has heard the term industrial action and likes the way you think https://twitter.com/GioBenitez/status/1543321732282519552 to be fair thousands of pilots might've just seen an opportunity to not work a hell weekend over the 4th and taken it, but my head canon is funnier.
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mrmcd posted:tfw the IT department has heard the term industrial action and likes the way you think Oh poo poo i'm actually flying AA for my union this week lmao TIME TO FIND OUT IF I'M STILL FLYING
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https://twitter.com/VzwUnion/status/1544728595247075330 this is the group I’ve been helping
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this is the real happy news thread. 
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https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1545042495108591617
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rural kentucky gives me hope
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Weird how it's been the red districts that seem to unionize first. Staten Island was a red oasis in New York, now Kentucky.
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Weird how it's been the red districts that seem to unionize first. the reddest state in the country has anywhere from 25 to 35% of it's population vote for the democrats in presidential elections, and that's just the ones who want to cast a vote that objectively doesn't matter. Red state blue state discourse is brain rot
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Also shitloads (maybe majority?) of people who voted at the Staten island location did not live in Staten island, and even if they do, gerrymandered districts where only 25% of people vote anyway are not a great indication of local political development + interest in labor organizing
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kingcobweb posted:https://twitter.com/VzwUnion/status/1544728595247075330 gently caress em up, bud 
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