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bootlickers gonna lick boot and probably stab you in the back. they see only their self interest and a rising tide is anathema to them because people other than them also benefit from it
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May 3, 2023 23:23
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The general procedure that I've heard about from mcalevey and the like is to begin with issue identification. This means talking to the worker, as a peer or fellow worker, and figuring out something they want to be improved in their workplace. It doesn't have to be something obvious like pay, it could be something like there's an rear end in a top hat supervisor hitting on employees, or the boss keeps changing the schedule at the last minute every week. bringing people on board with signing a letter about that is a first step to bringing someone reluctant on board if someone just wants to be a randian ubermensch libertarian and thinks your job is to sit there and be his punching bag while he owns you with FACTS and LOGIC then you should just move on, they're not worth you wasting time you can use doing real organizing work. this is known as the "delete twitter" theory of organizing
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May 3, 2023 23:39
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At my old job, there were a raft of immediate issues and I kept running into a few problems. Either people were actively hostile to working together because they saw career advancement opportunities, people were too afraid to ever address that the bad bosses were the root of the vague discontentment they were willing to share openly, or if I could get people around to saying it was the bad bosses, I couldn't generate any support to do anything other than go through ~*proper channels*~. The idea of putting demands on bosses was right out. Things now aren't as obviously broken (on the relative scale of capitalist working environment being inherently exploitative) and I'm just trying to feel people out before the crises start up.
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before our eventually successful union campaign, people did try going through the Official channels and seeing how clearly those just don't work at all to address the actual concerns of the employees helped open people's ears to alternative strategies. fwiw. Your ideas and theories will be correct, but for a lot of people they need the experience of that failure to kind of, prove it.
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May 4, 2023 00:25
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Yeah, basically nobody in an unorganized shop will be willing to strike (basically by definition), and what building up to a strike entails is getting worker buyin by exhausting every other option. go through the proper channels, get ignored. Go through the proper channels with an email with a few dozen signatures, get a dismissive email from HR saying to please refer to the employee handbook. Do another petition with a request for a meeting to discuss the issue and stick it on the boss's office door martin luther style, get ignored again. hold a public workers meeting/rally at lunch, get the boss to drop the friendly facade and send an angry email telling everyone to stop talking to the outside agitators stirring up trouble by putting these foolish ideas about wanting consistent hours into his employees' heads, at this company we're like a family, do you want an outside group like a union to come between you and your family?, if anyone ever has any problems with anything his door is always open
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May 4, 2023 01:12
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This sounds like politics. .....wait.
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May 4, 2023 01:16
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Yup. The owner sending the angry email turned a tentative effort into a totally unified front it's awesome. Let your boss prove unequivocally what the power relation is.
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May 4, 2023 01:17
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that was essentially the path taken at my workplace. try to talk to management individually. try it as a group. compare responses (all promising changes that never come). realize we’ve all done this at multiple workplaces. need a new solution. unionize.
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May 4, 2023 11:50
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lmao it hit me just now that the hollywood strike started on international workers day
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May 4, 2023 22:13
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I thought it started at 00:00 on May 2nd. I mean I guess it was May 1st somewhere for a couple of hours
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May 4, 2023 22:16
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organize your workplace: it's always May 1st somewhere!
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May 4, 2023 22:34
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Our union leadership had a meeting with ELT on Wednesday, we got the email update last night; should I as an individual member be concerned about what seems to be a lack of anything resembling a timeline besides "in a timely manner" given that our CBA is already littered with the phrase "in a timely manner" on any of these items?quote:The company acknowledged the validity of our concerns, took ownership of the issues, and made several commitments in order to resolve them, including but not limited to:
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May 5, 2023 14:36
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I think that's a good reaction to have. No concrete deadlines means they can just kick the can down the road or drag things out as long as possible. I mean, it sounds like leadership already loves to use this language by peppering the CBA with it. Do ya'll have any previous examples of those "in a timely manners" not really being timely? That could be a great story to use for organizing/agitation.
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May 5, 2023 14:57
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Greatbacon posted:I think that's a good reaction to have. No concrete deadlines means they can just kick the can down the road or drag things out as long as possible. The meeting was in response to a letter, that was the response of an organizing campaign in response to various members' grievances going unresolved, or taking months to resolve, lack of communication on issues that affected the whole of union membership, etc. The issues raised in the letter were: quote:Our CBA mandated annual raises for all covered employees, yet several employees were left waiting for months for their raises with no explanation.
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May 5, 2023 15:10
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started a new job last month and i'm already ready to unionize the drat thing, yeesh
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Replace timely manner with a specific number of days. Also be prepared to have management suggest the most ridiculous number of days depending on the situation Timeline to grieve? Very short. Timeline to be able to discipline? Very long.
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May 5, 2023 21:35
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Tom Smykowski posted:Replace timely manner with a specific number of days. Also be prepared to have management suggest the most ridiculous number of days depending on the situation I asked from the folks that were in the meeting/put together the notes what objective metrics we had for determining a timely manner, or if a specific date, even a general # weeks/months time frame for the pay audit were given but so far haven't gotten an answer. It sucks, I really feel like a lot of this is just basic questions that should have been asked but since it was a closed door meeting I don't even know if it was something that was asked and then just not communicated well (at all?) in the meeting notes, or if our people were just so wholly unprepared that they didn't go in ready to try and pin the company down on specific timelines. It's...disappointing, and I'm afraid my constant pushes for these kinds of specifics are making me out to be a bit of a squeaky wheel.
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May 5, 2023 21:47
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Being the squeaky wheel is the only way poo poo gets done in those situations
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May 5, 2023 21:56
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...okay https://twitter.com/UnionElections/status/1655934656855019520?s=20
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May 9, 2023 15:14
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[dead prez voice] hell yeah https://twitter.com/cirseiu/status/1655658418546286594 (medical residents and staff)
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May 9, 2023 15:59
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I need to read more Saunders again https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1655655082665598976?s=20
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May 9, 2023 16:32
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people should stop by a picket line if they're near one, it's a good experience and they're always grateful to see solidarity from more people: https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike/picket-schedules-and-locations I live in NYC and they also have an emergency outreach option to call as many people as possible to help them w/ a mobile picket line that targets shoots, theyve stopped filming at a few locations now and it kicks rear end. I assume they have similar operations in other active metro areas w/ a film industry
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7231253213528263978
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:...okay Topeka, KS is about to have one less WAL-MART
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Dancers at LA’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar Become the Nation’s Only Unionized Strippersquote:Los Angeles – The 15-month effort by dancers employed at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, Calif. to gain union recognition and become the nation’s only unionized strippers ended today in complete victory.
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May 17, 2023 00:53
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gently caress YEAH
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kingcobweb posted:gently caress YEAH
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my pal was fired after trying to unionize strippers in Portland years back so this is pretty freaking sweet news. i still feel lovely about how the lusty lady went down in SF.
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Because the deck is so heavily stacked against the worker I know it takes a long time for the material benefits of organizing and unionization to roll in, but I've been helping other cafes organize and hearing one of em is ready to file soon is just a fantastic feeling. I know it's just vibes, but at least it's good vibes. 
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Geight posted:Because the deck is so heavily stacked against the worker I know it takes a long time for the material benefits of organizing and unionization to roll in, but I've been helping other cafes organize and hearing one of em is ready to file soon is just a fantastic feeling. I know it's just vibes, but at least it's good vibes. That's fantastic, good for you for putting in that work. It is always a long, hard struggle but seeing it pay off at the end is so worth it.
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Geight posted:Because the deck is so heavily stacked against the worker I know it takes a long time for the material benefits of organizing and unionization to roll in, but I've been helping other cafes organize and hearing one of em is ready to file soon is just a fantastic feeling. I know it's just vibes, but at least it's good vibes. hell yeah motherfucker
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Geight posted:Because the deck is so heavily stacked against the worker I know it takes a long time for the material benefits of organizing and unionization to roll in, but I've been helping other cafes organize and hearing one of em is ready to file soon is just a fantastic feeling. I know it's just vibes, but at least it's good vibes. 
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Geight posted:…I've been helping other cafes organize and hearing one of em is ready to file soon is just a fantastic feeling. I know it's just vibes, but at least it's good vibes. Truly the most blessed post.
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feel like the company is taking extra lovely steps to create disunity in the union. after laying people off back in january they've stepped up our workload with new projects, revised timelines for preexisting efforts, and adding presale scoping and quoting (since our team's coordinator was one of the layoffs) to our workloads. the existing effort to get all of our clients off of the previous release of our platform is now down to "every migration needs to be complete by EOY this year" from the previous push to have all customers off the legacy platform in 2 years. the hosed up part is that it's no longer a manager assigning out the platform migrations - they passed that duty on down to a business unit member and because of the push from ELT more and more of us are finding ourselves double and even triple-booked on projects on some days. i can't help but think they're setting the dude who's scheduling them now up to be the target of animosity for the rest of the team and while it's a fairly obvious play to me, I'm not sure the rest of our team is picking up on it. i loving hate it.
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Lazy_Liberal posted:my pal was fired after trying to unionize strippers in Portland years back so this is pretty freaking sweet news. i still feel lovely about how the lusty lady went down in SF. What happened there? I saw the documentary about it back in the day but it seems like more stuff went down since
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:What happened there? I saw the documentary about it back in the day but it seems like more stuff went down since with lusty lady, i think it just became an issue with the building owner and rent prices blah blah blah. in portland news, we continue to unionize nonprofit behavioral health agencies. got another major organization last week 👏
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https://twitter.com/InsideTheMagic/status/1661153956234514435 Disney Evacuated, Cast Member Revolt Traps Main Street ekuNNN has issued a correction as of 01:49 on May 25, 2023 |
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That reminds me of the 1941 Disney animators' strike, where they lynched and guillotined an effigy of Walt Disney 
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