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Tom Smykowski posted:What's up with all the poo poo flying around about different campuses being treated differently? all i am aware of is that Berkeley, LA, and San Francisco ASEs are getting base salary scales about $2500/yr higher than the rest of the state, supposedly as a cost of living adjustment (student researchers are all on the same scale statewide, which is higher than the ASE scale), everyone at Santa Cruz gets a $2,500/yr housing stipend, and SF also has its own kind of housing supplement that I don't know the specifics of. outside of the contract, the other difference between campuses that I am aware of is that only LBNL and some(?) parts of UCSF are docking the pay of the workers who were striking i've been ignoring all of the twitter fighting because i got enough frustration from irl organizing lately Shear Modulus has issued a correction as of 05:14 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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what's the mood after the ratification vote been like?
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In Training posted:what's the mood after the ratification vote been like? i dunno, im at my parents' house. i assume the people who liked the contract are super happy and the people who didnt are mega pissed off.
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# ? Dec 25, 2022 05:22 |
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Shear Modulus posted:i dunno, im at my parents' house. Makes sense lol
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Oops, I forgot that it was the grad school and academia thread in SAL that there were some posts with more context, not this thread. I'm just going to quote myself and a few other posters discussing about where the divide between the two sides is. Animal-Mother posted:Well, that's it for the UC strike. Cyrano4747 posted:What happened? By the smilie I'm guessing nothing good? Shear Modulus posted:The ratification vote for grad students ended last night. Animal-Mother posted:IMHO, the strike mostly appeared to be weakening because it's the holidays and people are busy with their families. If they held out past this, I think we would've seen a resurgence. But that's just my conjecture. Only thing I know for certain is that there's a pretty sharp class divide between the yes and no votes. The people who can afford to vote yes mostly did. MegaZeroX posted:From what I saw, the conditions for the divide was based on: e: Just like every other left of center space in the universe both sides are the privileged hobbyist leftists lol Shear Modulus has issued a correction as of 05:35 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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Thanks for the info. Some of the best organizing advice I've gotten is make sure you rest after a big drive, protect yourself, and jump back in when youre recharged but don't force it.
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Big Gay Union https://twitter.com/HBHWorkers/status/1611154663247876096?s=20&t=VjpPbRQniCVRUADrNU4_TA If you want to help out the workers there here's the strike fund/relief fund for laid off workers. The had a 3 day ULP strike that just finished, but the struggle to get workers reinstated and even get a contract is continuing. They all work at a "nonprofit" healthcare provider for the LGBTQIA community in Chicago, and management has been vicious since they've unionized last year. https://twitter.com/HBHWorkers/status/1600164720471789582?s=20&t=VjpPbRQniCVRUADrNU4_TA
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Has anyone dealt with or seen an example of a cost of living difference between different campuses across a state for full-time employees? I'm trying to come up with a fair way to deal with the facts that -cost of living, home value, and rent vary by more than 2x between certain campuses -most employees work at the main campus and many will go FYGM if people elsewhere get an adjustment that they don't even if it's objectively fair -some people commute farther to the main campus but live closer to other regionals -people at regionals have to do significantly more work due to a shrinking workforce and scope creep in their jobs with no compensation -there a mix of people who rent and own
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Anyone got info on the nurse strike in Nyc?
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random question just crossed my mind for no reason: are the UPS retail clerks union?
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https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1612596193204346885
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Jinnigan posted:random question just crossed my mind for no reason: are the UPS retail clerks union? At actual UPS sort facilities with a clerk desk, yes, they’re teamsters, or at least part of the bargaining unit represented by the teamsters. UPS stores are franchised, IIRC. My local UPS store is basically a family business.
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Super quick context because time is of the essence: A colleague of mine and I are working on a monthly newsletter for our locals and we were set to send it out today, and include some information on what to look for in the first paycheck of the year (1/15, eff. 1/13) but the company announced a 10% reduction in workforce today effective immediately. Those of us working on the newsletter aren't sure what to do - we're already at ~500 words so we feel like adding something in is going to lose people just on length alone, but we also want to get a communication out to everyone about what's happening and what affected Local members can do to make sure their checks are right (they absolutely won't be) by the contract.
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my experience is that you should never omit important information, especially if it would upset people if they learned you chose to omit it, in any communication. brevity is important, but not at the sacrifice of keeping people informed structure your newsletter in such a way (with bold text, number, whatever) so that it can be easily skimmed to see what each section is about.
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:my experience is that you should never omit important information, especially if it would upset people if they learned you chose to omit it, in any communication. Thanks, this was my initial thinking, but I wanted a gut check because I'm incredibly impulsive when I'm wound up!
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the instinct for most people in anything is to read the headline so big bold proclamations that break up newsletters are really helpful. Like JOB CUTS ANNOUNCED - WE WILL PROTECT OUR PAY or w/e and then all the details. At least that's how I read when I get letters from unions or orgs
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https://twitter.com/eaworkers_union/status/1613958231327383552 e: and we're getting some traction! https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1614005332828880896 Lib and let die has issued a correction as of 22:17 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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lol the democrats selling off their entire voter database to private equity is the most democrat thing
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Shear Modulus posted:lol the democrats selling off their entire voter database to private equity is the most democrat thing it might not be totally analogous, but i find it amusing in a way that for all their weeping and wailing about a couple hundred dollars worth of ad-buys by russian trolls, they had no problem allowing the sale of their database and software kit to a uk-based investment firm, which then turned around and slashed ~30% of the people responsible for maintaining that platform. senior level architects, product coaches, support staff, developers, and client advocates got their access cut off, some of them while they were in the middle of customer calls, couldn't break to see their emails, and were locked out of their email before their client call ever ended. the combined years of knowledge of the platform, how the different versions work (there are actually 3 different production releases of NGP), and other indispensable knowledge that was never written down just...gone. some people have said it's a collective 50 years' worth of knowledge of NGPVAN.
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Lol that's wild
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the recently elected danish goverment (which is a coalition of three parties: "social democrats", "liberals", and "centrists", "lmao") have decided to abolish a national holiday. "store bededag" (great prayerday) was entirely made up 300 years ago, but since then it has become a communal day of rest. theres nothing religious about it, but its a day that most people can enjoy with each other and if they have to work they get paid as if it was a sunday. imagine thanksgiving but less nationalist and more lazy, i guess. they claim that this extra labor supply will result in thousands of jobs, and the taxes for it will be used for defense spending re ukraine. ive not heard any non-govt source say this is a good idea, the govt doesnt even have evidence that adding a work day has a permanent effect. economists, activists, anyone you ask say its not gonna work. it might possibly make a difference in the first couple years, but after that they assume it is permanent. when explicitly asked, that is what they say "we have no evidence to the contrary, so we assume it is permanent" they do have a majority and they can push it through, but according to decorum they have to go through a hearing period & obvs they chose the shortest allowed time, so theres about a month yet before it gets decided. anyway the govt is suggesting that employers pay all employees 0.45% more in salary (which apparently corresponds to one work day). already people are saying "wtf, that only pays us the normal rate. you take away a holiday and pay us the normal rate, thats a de facto pay cut". which the unions arent pleased with of course. already, theres a lot of resentment from nurses and teachers etc, traditional womens roles who have been underpaid for decades. concurrently, theres a growing movement in the unions for 4-day work weeks so im actually kind of hoping that this will push the unions to demand that poo poo. also a lot of union contracts are going up for a vote this spring, so its weird to do a stunt like this right before my dad (retired psychiatric nurse) keeps saying "theyre doing this to take away attention from some more heinous poo poo" but im like "dad its all heinous" Carthag Tuek has issued a correction as of 23:54 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/moreperfectus/status/1590892618556141571 ekuNNN has issued a correction as of 20:00 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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We were just told by our locals that we aren't allowed to publish this.quote:EveryAction/NGP VAN Union Statement on Layoffs
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Just got an e-mail from my union announcing a strike training day. It included the following sentence (translation mine, clunky language OP's):quote:Strike training consists of a training period of around an hour, and after that begins a movie called Insanely poo poo Idea (duration c. 1:45) Might go see just for the movie. e: What the gently caress it's just a drama movie, I thought by the title it was going to be about capitalism or something
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Lib and let die posted:We were just told by our locals that we aren't allowed to publish this. By what reasoning??
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In Training posted:By what reasoning?? We were told: quote:We heard back from the Locals and they aren’t on board with us publishing the statement. I may or may not have accused CWA leadership of being compromised after reading this.
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Impressive that they took up so much space to say they're not doing anything lol
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Yeaaahhh I'm gonna be simmering on that all day
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Lib and let die posted:We were told: that sucks, especially the coddling of your employer. how could the blowback be worse anyway? people have already lost jobs, more will lose their jobs no matter what you do! and not criticizing employer now just means you probably alienate/lose more members who will view the union (correctly) as cowardly and now you're guaranteed a weaker bargaining position anyway.
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daniel bell is talking in a context of anti-imperalism mainly here, but this kind of applies to the staff that run voting databases bc of their relation to domestic voting rights. business unionism will protect their membership in the short-term regardless of the long-term social consequences of doing soquote:In his classic 1958 essay, “The Capitalism of the Proletariat: A Theory of American Trade-Unionism,” Bell tried to understand a paradox: labor’s rhetoric included many angry speeches excoriating the boss, yet leaders of even militant unions frequently saw themselves as supporters of capitalism.
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In Training posted:that sucks, especially the coddling of your employer. how could the blowback be worse anyway? people have already lost jobs, more will lose their jobs no matter what you do! and not criticizing employer now just means you probably alienate/lose more members who will view the union (correctly) as cowardly and now you're guaranteed a weaker bargaining position anyway. In Training posted:daniel bell is talking in a context of anti-imperalism mainly here, but this kind of applies to the staff that run voting databases bc of their relation to domestic voting rights. business unionism will protect their membership in the short-term regardless of the long-term social consequences of doing so thanks for both of these posts. definitely bringing up some of these questions.
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Non-American organizing: https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1616104616965406721
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If you allow me to be suspicious and accusatory of the democrats, I think that the timing of a sale of NGP VAN to private equity right after the 2020 election feels a lot like it fits into the constellation of other rule changes the DNC instituted or plans on instituting post-2020 to make it impossible for someone like bernie to get as close as he did to winning (for example, moving south carolina's primary before iowa). taking an essential piece of shared campaign infrastructure like the voter database out of the hands of the DNC, which at least theoretically could be democratically controlled by bernie-aligned democrats at some point, and into the hands of a private equity company that doesn't need to answer to anyone and has no real obligation to pretend to be neutral, is neoliberal privatization 101, just as applied to political infrastructure instead of state infrastructure.
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# ? Jan 19, 2023 18:28 |
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“this is the second castle to unionize” made me laugh hard enough that I had to explain it to my union treasurer who is sitting in this office with me.
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Sup.
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MrYenko posted:“this is the second castle to unionize” made me laugh hard enough that I had to explain it to my union treasurer who is sitting in this office with me. "Sorry, capitalist, the exploitable workforce is in another castle."
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3D Megadoodoo posted:"Sorry, capitalist, the exploitable workforce is in another castle." ....thread title?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:"Sorry, capitalist, the exploitable workforce is in another castle."
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3D Megadoodoo posted:"Sorry, capitalist, the exploitable workforce is in another castle." lol
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related to locals being compromised, i learned of a union shop recently where the shop steward's partner is his boss's boss and both people, the steward and his partner, were part of contract negotiations. on opposite sides of the table i was blown away
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