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far fewer than that walked off the job, that's just how many people are represented
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Nov 7, 2023 16:20
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Raises tied to inflation should be the default.
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Arkhamina posted:Raises tied to inflation should be the default. Yeah and it's sad like nobody has this. In the US at least idk about trade unions elsewhere.
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In Training posted:Yeah and it's sad like nobody has this. In the US at least idk about trade unions elsewhere. Here's a handy chart  
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Looks like SAG-AFTRA has reached a deal https://deadline.com/2023/11/sag-strike-ends-actors-studios-deal-contract-1235566470/
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inevitable when the writers came back, let’s see what’s in the deal though
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Arkhamina posted:Raises tied to inflation should be the default. our unions agreement was annual wage increases that were = [0.5%+CPI] (minimum 1.5%, maximum 6-7%). turns out we hit the raise cap under genocide joe's economy since this was negotiated before hyperflation. i don't think we'd have gotten that in the contract otherwise though lol we'll see what happens next contract. i gotta feeling the CPI equation is going ot be fought over now big time by the board, especially that our wages pretty heavily far outstrips private wages after all the recent increases Xaris has issued a correction as of 04:05 on Nov 9, 2023 |
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california state scientists have announced plans for first ever civil servant strike in state history https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article281664388.html quote:Scientists in California state government plan to walk off the job next week in what would be California’s first-ever civil servant strike. After three years of fruitless bargaining, followed by an impasse declaration and mediation talks, the California Association of Professional Scientists will stage a rolling three-day strike Nov. 15-17, the union announced Thursday in an email to members. there is a huge gap between what rank and file are pushing for and what the state has provided, and anecdotally everyone in my office is ready to hit the picket line. a lot of rank and file were vocal about striking when we rejected the state's offer last year, and i'm sure that the labor successes over the last few months have only hardened opinions
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flint plant voted down the ford deal. granted it’s just one plant, but it may not be a done deal after all. very interesting to watch - I trust UAW membership, whatever call they make.
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Feeling the heat there, Jimmy? I'm guessing his initial call of the strike was predicting the auto companies would crush the workers.
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Alkydere posted:Feeling the heat there, Jimmy? predicting...stroking himself...your choice, really
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Uhhh, this is NOT good. Cramer is never right about anything.
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Once again feeling betrayed by Bernie Sanders for him talking them down
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Geight posted:Once again feeling betrayed by Bernie Sanders for him talking them down Dude wasn't going to fight. The whole point of him screaming "FITE ME!" like that was to look like a "cool dude" in a room where he knew a dozen other people would be available to "talk him down" before he had to actually risk a fight. It was performative toxic masculinity at its finest.
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in case his remarks about being a self-made CEO at the beginning made you curious, I looked it up and he inherited his business from his father at age 20 and currently has a net worth in excess of $30m
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vyelkin posted:in case his remarks about being a self-made CEO at the beginning made you curious, I looked it up and he inherited his business from his father at age 20 and currently has a net worth in excess of $30m I just assumed this
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The student workers at my place are organizing. 
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Animal-Mother posted:The student workers at my place are organizing. i forget where i read the story, but it wrote in jest UAW should be renamed United Academic Workers because of how union numbers have grown purely from the rise in academic unions
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NoU posted:i forget where i read the story, but it wrote in jest UAW should be renamed United Academic Workers because of how union numbers have grown purely from the rise in academic unions it’s been “United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America” for ages so what’s one more A!! especially where I am (west coast) the union is literally like 98% academia, especially the UC system edit: can add in a little gAmbling too
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Arms too, there's gun manufactures mixed in with the milieu
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I'd be fine if they added Amazon as well. Very fine indeed. I feel we'd fall more under Teamsters. However Solidarity is Solidarity.
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Cobbled together a successful strike vote at my store to join in the big national action that we're doing tomorrow (and some stores have already kicked off today), have got the strike notice all typed up and scheduled to fire off before our first shift tomorrow. Somehow I'm more anxious now that all the stuff I can do is done and I just have to wait.
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Geight posted:Cobbled together a successful strike vote at my store to join in the big national action that we're doing tomorrow (and some stores have already kicked off today), have got the strike notice all typed up and scheduled to fire off before our first shift tomorrow. Somehow I'm more anxious now that all the stuff I can do is done and I just have to wait. hell yeah!! I’ll be on the picket line at another one tomorrow
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UE is signing up a lot of student workers too, I went to their national convention a couple months ago and they had a half dozen new charters handed out, all but one were at colleges. I would be surprised if "electrical, radio and machine workers" made up a quarter of the total membership.
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that’s a very tight vote, I don’t like that. you want these contracts to pass big (like at UPS) or fail big. close votes are trouble.
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yeah idk why it was close kingcobweb do you know
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yeah that seems very close and some other shop also failed a ford vote i believe
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Shear Modulus posted:yeah idk why it was close no insight. I don’t even work for UAW any more
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https://headlight.news/2023/11/16/uaw-workers-approve-gm-contract/quote:According to the Detroit News, 19,683 workers voted in favor of the deal, coming in at 54.7%, while 16,274 voted against. The company’s skilled trades employees seemingly voted in favor of the contract, by a 2-to-1 margin; however, production workers were much less enthused.
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They didn't fully eliminate tiers and did not win all the benefits packages they wanted to iirc. UAWD, the reform caucus that the new leadership like Fain belong to, ultimately decided to Abstain as their official opinion on the TAs which speaks to a pretty split opinion from membership. A really close vote at certain workplaces is not surprising. also regionally the UAW is still a mess, as an example on these votes, some shops you get multiple membership meetings with Q&As, scheduled for different shifts, and material distributed via every possible communication channel. Other places you get less than 24 hours to read a 400 page TA and decide your vote lol. I think overall the mood is "this has been an unbelievable step forward compared to the last negotiations, but fain & the caucus promised more and the strike could have continued". My 2c
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While the new contract has some big gains, it doesn't regain all the concessions that were given back in 2008, especially regarding retirement benefits. Autoworkers remember that back in the 70s and 80s, the people doing their jobs could afford to buy a house and provide for their family with a single income while being on a secure path to retirement. People were hoping for fundamental change, not incremental improvement. There are limits to what can be done in the context of labor negotiations, the real enemy isn't your boss or the company you work for, it's global capitalism.
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In Training posted:I think overall the mood is "this has been an unbelievable step forward compared to the last negotiations, but fain & the caucus promised more and the strike could have continued". My 2c
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Our store was fully shutdown today, there was one anti-union worker who was talking a big game about how the manager was going to keep us open anyways and how he thought the picket would only serve to increase business, and absolutely none of it materialized. We had a modest picket outside for four hours, getting folks to sign petitions and informing them about our working conditions. Some local DSA lads stepped up to beef up our numbers, it was very much appreciated. It took us almost a year to get some direct action going but I'm pretty happy with our first foray. 
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