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those are all great, thanks! I think some of this is highlighting for me how different the nonprofit space is in this regard. as things stand, we're light on meetings and cameras aren't required. there's no key or mouse tracking of any kind and I'm sure there'd be a rebellion if it was ever suggested. same with expectations to work outside of 8-5, they're genuinely aghast at the idea and nobody is permitted to go over 40 full stop. i'm not sure about in-office stuff but there are some union members in the organization's actual office (which is across the country from me) so that is a good reminder to make sure we also advocate for them. Lib and let die posted:fight like hell to prevent a no strike/no lockout clause from being in the contract, IME a no-strike clause also extends to slowdowns and walkouts in addition to strikes which basically leaves you with the options "write letters, wear buttons/red, and then strike" which is an escalation leap most folks aren't going to want to make. I think we have already secured this but I'm gonna take a gander at the contract and bring it up to make sure the language is solid. I can't imagine how horrible this would be with a soulless for-profit company as the adversary. administration where I work are odious bourgeois vampires, of course, but they have spent decades advocating openly for all kinds of "inclusive" stuff that makes it a lot harder for them to openly ratfuck us without looking like huge hypocrites in the nonprofit world. that hasn't stopped them from doing so, ofc, but they're being sneakier about it than is typical I imagine. really appreciate the advice!
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Frog Act posted:but they have spent decades advocating openly for all kinds of "inclusive" stuff that makes it a lot harder for them to openly ratfuck us without looking like huge hypocrites in the nonprofit world. If I could take one thing I learned serving in the nonprofit-industrial complex and make it known as an absolute truth it's that non-profits don't give a poo poo about looking like hypocrites. NARAL is one of the largest, most well-known non-profits in the country and they have no problem taking openly union-busting actions. Don't for one second underestimate their willingness to stoop to the same level as a for-profit org, and expect them to use the ideology backing the org as a weapon against you and gamble that the BU's passion will outweigh their willingness to disrupt the organization and thus the clients they serve.
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Lib and let die posted:If I could take one thing I learned serving in the nonprofit-industrial complex and make it known as an absolute truth it's that non-profits don't give a poo poo about looking like hypocrites. NARAL is one of the largest, most well-known non-profits in the country and they have no problem taking openly union-busting actions. Don't for one second underestimate their willingness to stoop to the same level as a for-profit org, and expect them to use the ideology backing the org as a weapon against you and gamble that the BU's passion will outweigh their willingness to disrupt the organization and thus the clients they serve. this is 100% what I'm seeing right now with the Seattle Art Museum strike going on right now. spot on.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:this is 100% what I'm seeing right now with the Seattle Art Museum strike going on right now. spot on. SAM is on strike??? I haven’t heard anything about this
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from the Seattle LAN thread:PokeJoe posted:Walked by a little strike at SAM today, go team
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thanks for sharing, interesting that theyre an independent union bc they are wall-to-wall, including security staff. That seems pretty rare. Taft-hartley has a carve out for security/guards, they have to be in their own units. It will severely limit their ability to strike if they have to, but that's great that they stuck to a more inclusive and all encompassing approach on the floor
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SAM's vistor services employees unionized.... years ago now. they're an independent union. the museum is basically just stonewalling them. i've not heard that they're properly on strike. SAM is a pretty tightwad institution, which is too bad, because they have some great stuff and are surrounded by wealth. but those wealthy people want their own foundations and museums (Paul Allen, for example, had his own collection and staff that was in charge of care, loans, installation, and swapping out poo poo on, for example, his yacht via helicopter when he had important people he wanted to show off to) e: is it wall-to-wall??? I know people who work there and they haven't said that. I thought it was just the visitor services/sercurity employees? the website isn't very clear. JAY ZERO SUM GAME has issued a correction as of 21:05 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:SAM's vistor services employees unionized.... years ago now. they're an independent union. the museum is basically just stonewalling them. i've not heard that they're properly on strike. If not wall to wall it seems like a mix of visitor services and security, from their website. But yes it's vague and I have no idea what conditions are like beyond what they've published.
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Found this article about the first CBA in women's hockey and it goes into a lot of what makes forming a strong union and getting support difficult but still worthwhile: https://defector.com/womens-hockey-pwhl-pwhpa-labor-cba Particularly of note to me is this paragraph: quote:It's peculiar, if not surprising, that women athletes so often must defend their employers. In women's sports, the best players in the world are conscripted as ambassadors. They work this second job for no pay. Their task is to plead two related but meaningfully different cases: that what they love to do can be a viable business, and that what they love to do must be done in a stable working environment. In the interest of the first fight, it might seem reasonable to downplay the second. There's no easy way to say that what you do matters while simultaneously pointing out everything that suggests the opposite. This tension spans generations. When Jayna Hefford returned home from victories in Salt Lake City or Turin, no one wanted to hear about funding and infrastructure. They wanted a good Canadian girl to say the women's game was growing, that its future was bright, that it was charging forward. They loved a simple story of progress, no matter how true.
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good news to balance it out. if your job has one of these bullshit organizations, it very well might be illegal! https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/t-mobile-sponsored-group-is-unlawful-labor-organization-us-court-rules-2024-01-12/
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kingcobweb posted:i'm nervous https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-hear-dispute-over-starbucks-firing-pro-union-workers-2024-01-12/ The court is absolutely going to gut labor law. Expect them to say you can be fired for even looking at a union
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https://twitter.com/quentinjmccoy/status/1747001527753932953 they spoke at my reinstatement so it especially rules to see this.
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NLRB Justice rules because it results in very concrete actions and the company has to put up a poster that explicitly states how they hosed up and how they won't do it again (they will but it's nice that they have to eat some amount of poo poo).
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/17/us-beer-union-strike-bud-light-anheuser-buschquote:Arroyo said the 99% strike authorization vote sent a message that workers are sticking together to demand what’s due to them. The last contract reached in 2019 included only $2.50 in wage increases over five years and included higher medical benefit costs for new employees. Pretty cool, 👍
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great to see. Busch III used to come to sea world and he was a real douchebag. heavily anti-union and they'd give you free beer as a work benefit
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Lazy_Liberal posted:great to see. Busch III used to come to sea world and he was a real douchebag. heavily anti-union and they'd give you free beer as a work benefit this is the plot of “last exit to Springfield”
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csu wants people to report any strike activity to their website. just cross posting this here in case ANYONE wants to report a strike you’ve seen there!! https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2a7626b7413b4a16989f2ea0b8d86a47
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kingcobweb posted:csu wants people to report any strike activity to their website. just cross posting this here in case ANYONE wants to report a strike you’ve seen there!! https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2a7626b7413b4a16989f2ea0b8d86a47 Lol, many of my students have been reporting the campus president or the members of the board of trustees as not in teaching classes. It's fun. EDIT: Many bigfoot sightings as well. Such esteemed colleagues I never knew. I wanna go to the picket line, but I want to picket at the uni closer to me, so I think I'll just show up there and see if they turn me away.
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Joey Steel posted:Lol, many of my students have been reporting the campus president or the members of the board of trustees as not in teaching classes. It's fun. hell yeah, congrats on the strike, give 'em hell. let us know how the picket lines are! NYT on the strike: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/us/csu-california-faculty-strike.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Lol, strike is called off, the tentative terms have a lot of rank and file up in arms. no concession on increasing therapist to student ratios 5% raise now, and pinky promise 5% raise next year ("if state funding isn't cut", instead of "if funding is increased") family leave for newborn/newly adopted child is 10 weeks instead of 6 (ask was for a semester) There is a chance that this won't pass a vote.
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https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1749497048079188346 go off
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Joey Steel posted:Lol, strike is called off, the tentative terms have a lot of rank and file up in arms. not to go full trot and tell people to vote it down before knowing the full context... yeahhh......... i'd get in touch with other people in your unit and call some R&F meetings about this
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kingcobweb posted:not to go full trot and tell people to vote it down before knowing the full context... yeahhh......... i'd get in touch with other people in your unit and call some R&F meetings about this So far nobody in the Mechanical Engineering, Physics or Engineering Tech department at my campus have said anything positive. This may get voted down, and we may end up with new leadership soon.
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Joey Steel posted:Lol, strike is called off, the tentative terms have a lot of rank and file up in arms.
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I don’t love it but I trust Fain enough to think that either 1) he’s gamed this out and done a pro/con calculation or 2) Biden threatened him with an adverse NLRB ruling on some important issue and he’s taking his lumps to protect his membership. That would suck? but I’d get it, at least, you can’t eat principle.
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Biden and the Dems are materially supporting a genocide that the UAW just not two months ago called for an end to. The nlrb is a joke anyway who loving cares about one appointment he made 4 years ago. The dept is still desperately underfunded and neither bourgeois party cares about it. They had the easiest layup in history to say "neither party represents the interests of the working class + we don't support the US imperial project in Israel".
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In Training posted:Biden and the Dems are materially supporting a genocide that the UAW just not two months ago called for an end to. The nlrb is a joke anyway who loving cares about one appointment he made 4 years ago. The dept is still desperately underfunded and neither bourgeois party cares about it. if you cant take a real stand against genocide what are you even worth lol
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Al! posted:shouldnt they endorse the guy that's gonna win instead then? HallelujahLee posted:if you cant take a real stand against genocide what are you even worth lol
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