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you're not wrong that there's factional politics at play. The conservative old guard hates these kind of activities and has been working to stymie efforts at local levels around the country over the past weeks for shops or locals to sign on calls for ceasefire, Palestinian solidarity etc. The call today wouldn't be possible w/o the direct elections and reform efforts of the rank and file over a decade+. Im overwhelmed by this today it's very exciting
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And for whatever it's worth, UAW still has not endorsed the Dems despite biden's many strike like visits / grovelling / rallies during the big 3 strike. My dream for left near term political movement in US is for organized labor to finally ditch the worthless relationship with the Democrats, at the very least at the federal level. This will continue to drive that wedge between the goals of the UAW and biden's admin. Very cool
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In Training posted:And for whatever it's worth, UAW still has not endorsed the Dems despite biden's many strike like visits / grovelling / rallies during the big 3 strike. My dream for left near term political movement in US is for organized labor to finally ditch the worthless relationship with the Democrats, at the very least at the federal level. This will continue to drive that wedge between the goals of the UAW and biden's admin. Very cool The uaw read my posts in the i/p thread HallelujahLee has issued a correction as of 19:16 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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This older Jacobin article was shared with me to provide some historical context - It's good to see UAW leadership finally doing right by their rank-and-file.
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Wisconsin just had a coalition of various labor groups file suit to challenge the Act 10 ban on (some) public unions. The key argument is unequal treatment for groups under the law, as the original Act exemption included Police, Firefighter, and some other public safety types (Troopers, because they formed Scott Walker's safety detail). The major donors to his campaign, coincidentally. Interestingly they did not exempt all public safety - Dept. of Natural Resources Conservation Officers got their union busted into an association, but their membership has been increasing lately. My last Federation of Labor meeting, one of their members said that their chapter has gone from 6 officers to over 60 in the past few months, as conditions are really bad. lovely times get Hoping the new, more liberal State Supreme Court make up will be favorable. https://www.wpr.org/act-10-collective-bargaining-ban-lawsuit-supreme-court
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loving momentum like this, I hope the big 3 strike inspires many more non-union auto shops to join the movement. I know UAW is also finally committing resources to new organizing in the south. LFG. https://twitter.com/UAW/status/1732769997292724671?s=20
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Does only UAW unionise students or are other unions also active in this field? Why did the UAW decide to focus on students anyway? Since it seems a bit foreign to the other sectors it is active in, but maybe I'm missing the history here.
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Other unions do organize academic workers/students, but idk the answer to your 2nd q. I think it's bc a change in labor law under Bush + a way for UAW to combat shrinking membership numbers from deindustrialization? There's probably something published about the history and strategy
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sube posted:Why did the UAW decide to focus on students anyway? Since it seems a bit foreign to the other sectors it is active in, but maybe I'm missing the history here. the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America is rather a big tent union. Academic staff compromise 25% of membership. They expanded to office/technical professions in the 60s
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Geight posted:This older Jacobin article was shared with me to provide some historical context - It's good to see UAW leadership finally doing right by their rank-and-file. kinda funny that it runs counter to conventional narratives In Training posted:you're not wrong that there's factional politics at play. The conservative old guard hates these kind of activities and has been working to stymie efforts at local levels around the country over the past weeks for shops or locals to sign on calls for ceasefire, Palestinian solidarity etc. they are loving idiot losers whose time has come to move along. some talented, experienced, losers, but losers all the same.
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lolling at the swedish tesla auto workers strike has been continually expanding via sympathy actions started with the auto workers, then dock workers refused to unload cars in harbor, then no mail (including license plates), or cleaning. pension funds are recommending divesting and in the last week danish unions have taken up sympathy actions as well, so they cant unload the cars over here and drive them over either theyre basically completely cut off from any other unionized company in sweden and denmark, which pretty much means any company larger than 3 employees Carthag Tuek has issued a correction as of 17:38 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:lolling at the swedish tesla auto workers strike has been continually expanding via sympathy actions international solidarity ftw
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Scandinavian unions are notoriously passive too iirc so lol that musk managed to piss them off this badly
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Zodium posted:international solidarity ftw gently caress yea Agean90 posted:Scandinavian unions are notoriously passive too iirc so lol that musk managed to piss them off this badly yeah it can take a while before they go into action. theyve been trying to get tesla to negotiate for a long rear end time, its only in the last couple months that it really started popping off. but once a strike is on, thats when picket lines & sympathy actions really show their power. i mean musk could pay scabs for centuries if he wanted, so the only way to stop him is to cut him off. he cant scab the entire infrastructure of multiple countries (yet, anyway, and he probably wouldnt want to either lol)
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e: the union has a p good site here with press releases, faqs for workers, journalists, quotes from workers, etc. https://www.ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/ cursory glance at the auto google translations look ok
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Sbux posted a document in all the union stores that was basically just an open letter to our union prez saying they want to restart bargaining next month, I'm not knowledgeable enough about this stuff to know for sure if I should interpret that as a good sign but I'm choosing to because I want it to be a good sign.
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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 sube posted:Does only UAW unionise students or are other unions also active in this field? Why did the UAW decide to focus on students anyway? Since it seems a bit foreign to the other sectors it is active in, but maybe I'm missing the history here. https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206209107/united-auto-workers-union-uaw-membership-grad-students-big-3-strike The article doesn't exactly explain how it got started, but it evidently works for UAW because academic workers have expanded their membership more than any other profession recently. As for why choose UAW, postdoc unions have been going that way because UAW has a track record of recent successes, so why not? Elsewhere in the Anglosphere private universities are not as prominent so academic workers tend to belong to public sector unions, if any. Well I suppose that doesn't explain why public sector unions never had much of a foothold in higher education in the US but I'm sure there are reasons, predictable and otherwise.
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it can also be a matter of ‘what union is around and active near me?’ the Milwaukee art museum unionized with machinists, for example there are no actual rules, just traditions.
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Yeah in Canada there's like three or four union starbucks that signed up with the steelworkers union and refer to themselves as steelbucks.
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nordic unions are exclusively trade-specific, i mean you can be a member of any union you want or no union, but any company that wants to employ workers in some trades has to sign the agreements with the unions that represent those trades also, sanitation workers are saying they will strike against tesla sweden from dec 24 and they just got fined for having uncertified workers drive forklifts lmao https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sverige/tesla-botfalls-brister-upptackta-pa-fabriken/
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Amazing photojournalism showing the effects of a transit strike in Finland
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Student workers put up a notice that they're organizing with UAW.  Don't quite know how that works since they're all part-time, but I doubt UAW blew smoke up their rear end.
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student workers are unionized here at UW, works just fine.
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Animal-Mother posted:Student workers put up a notice that they're organizing with UAW. part time workers can still unionize! Good on em and judging from recent history, that election is going to be a landslide yes vote
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Yeah the two union jobs I've had both had mandatory membership for part-time workers. You don't want to give management any way of dividing people up.
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Dunno how it works elsewhere but grad students in Canada typically have the union cover teaching/research assistant contracts including hours, hourly pay and benefits, and negotiate for minimum total compensation without having any direct control over grant/scholarship funding.
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webcams for christ posted:Amazing photojournalism showing the effects of a transit strike in Finland Who’s the fuckin scab with the pallet jack? More seriously, good on the AKT. Go get em, boys and girls.
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who wants to read some true bullshit lmao https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/starbucks-did-not-use-anti-union-playbook-against-employees-report-2023-12-13/
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kingcobweb posted:who wants to read some true bullshit lmao https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/starbucks-did-not-use-anti-union-playbook-against-employees-report-2023-12-13/ "the coffee chain appointed labor relations expert" oh this seems like a trustworthy person 
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Juan Valdez has decades of experience in labour relations.
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Precambrian Video Games posted:Juan Valdez has decades of experience in labour relations. i might be missing something but i was talking about thomas mackall whos on the employer side. thus "expert "for the record, the telegram goes: quote:Dec 13 (Reuters) - Starbucks (SBUX.O) did not engage in any anti-union practice during its contract negotiations with union employees at its U.S. stores, a report based on a third-party inquiry showed on Wednesday.
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Carthag Tuek posted:i might be missing something but i was talking about thomas mackall whos on the employer side. thus "expert Yes, I was joking that Starbucks hired Juan Valdez as their coffee labour expert.
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my workplace is unionizing. we won the election over the summer before I was hired and we're entering the bargaining phase now. I'm a steward and working on rallying people to prepare for the struggle, including getting people to signal their support for possible collective action if management isn't accommodating. anyone got any good recommendations for ways to do this? I'm using materials provided by our umbrella union but my coworkers are all good natured liberals who don't quite understand what is happening and I'd like to use the right language to stress the importance of this process. i'm non-ideological when interacting with my reports, they don't need to know i'm a Communist for me to organize effectively, but I'm also generally trying to encourage radicalization among other stewards/supporting union statements in support of Palestine and stuff. we're in a tough stage right now where we have a proposed contract and management is about to attack it / do everything they can to undermine our demands, so I'm just trying to do what I can to prepare and help my union start the negotiations on solid footing
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how is the bargaining process? how and what from the process is being communicated to the rank and file? are the bargaining sessions closed or open? there are ruthless employers who are able to successfully snuff out a new union at this stage by dividing and conquering, especially if it's an uphill battle to do a strike authorization. hard to give really specific talking points, because your best ammunition is going to be your workplace grievances and CBA demands. I'd focus on gathering as much institutional knowledge as possible and looking for stories to show your colleagues that management does not act in good faith in the interest of the rank and file. you can't do labor action for palestinians if management uses the issue to destroy your solidarity and thwart the whole CBA process webcams for christ has issued a correction as of 20:14 on Jan 4, 2024 |
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Frog Act posted:my workplace is unionizing. we won the election over the summer before I was hired and we're entering the bargaining phase now. I'm a steward and working on rallying people to prepare for the struggle, including getting people to signal their support for possible collective action if management isn't accommodating. anyone got any good recommendations for ways to do this? I'm using materials provided by our umbrella union but my coworkers are all good natured liberals who don't quite understand what is happening and I'd like to use the right language to stress the importance of this process. i'm non-ideological when interacting with my reports, they don't need to know i'm a Communist for me to organize effectively, but I'm also generally trying to encourage radicalization among other stewards/supporting union statements in support of Palestine and stuff. we're in a tough stage right now where we have a proposed contract and management is about to attack it / do everything they can to undermine our demands, so I'm just trying to do what I can to prepare and help my union start the negotiations on solid footing gonna self-quote here, it seems what you need is an escalating action. me! posted:Take action. This can, and should, start small- everyone signing a letter to the boss, or wearing a matching button or T-shirt on the same day. Will these initial small actions solve everything? Almost certainly not. But the goal is to build power and build solidarity. People are going to be scared shitless just of wearing that button, then they go "oh poo poo! Even Bella's wearing the button!" and they feel encouraged, proud, and powerful. obviously, the boss won't do that, and you'll be able to go back to those people saying "hey, the boss didn't do the things we asked so nicely for. let's [wear buttons/tshirts/march on the boss together]" to show them we mean business this is both great ideological indoctrination, to prove to libs that the boss is not their friend, and gets people in the workplace doing something together.
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yeah, you gotta follow a path of escalation that demonstrates to the bargaining unit that management doesn’t give a poo poo about polite actions. buttons, flyers, etc. demonstrations are sometimes polite, sometimes not. who knows, maybe they will! in which case, congrats but they won’t. then it’s obvious to everyone that slowdowns, sickouts, work to rule, and maybe a strike are what’s gonna be necessary. no one’s gonna jump straight to a strike.
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