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kingcobweb: Apr 16, 2005

to take it seriously, that�s why it�s important to talk about hyper-local shop floor issues. people aren�t gonna vote for/against the union or sign up/not sign up because of some intl issue, it�ll be �since we got a union my boss got off my rear end and I got better safety equipment�

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Konstantin posted:

Their heart is in the right place, but you know the union busters will spin this as "Your UAW dues will be used to attack Israel. Do you really want to support this radical leftist organization? In TN, you have a right to not pay dues."

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

shut the gently caress up

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Pomeroy: Apr 20, 2020

Konstantin posted:

Their heart is in the right place, but you know the union busters will spin this as "Your UAW dues will be used to attack Israel. Do you really want to support this radical leftist organization? In TN, you have a right to not pay dues."

Two major unions in Los Angeles, one of them the regional UAW, endorsed a pro-Palestine Marxist-Leninist for city council this year, mainly thanks to calls from local organizers and the rank and file. Red baiting doesn't have traction it used to.

Pomeroy has issued a correction as of 06:45 on Apr 21, 2024

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In Training: Jun 28, 2008

even putting aside red baiting, the ceasefire call is broadly popular in America across the political spectrum, and it's absolutely necessary for trade unions to take up antiwar support. It's good poo poo to see, for example, student activism being joined and boosted by organized labor.

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Konstantin posted:

Their heart is in the right place, but you know the union busters will spin this as "Your UAW dues will be used to attack Israel. Do you really want to support this radical leftist organization? In TN, you have a right to not pay dues."

stop trying to co-opt unions into the Censorship Regime

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HallelujahLee: May 3, 2009

In Training posted:

even putting aside red baiting, the ceasefire call is broadly popular in America across the political spectrum, and it's absolutely necessary for trade unions to take up antiwar support. It's good poo poo to see, for example, student activism being joined and boosted by organized labor.

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Pentecoastal Elites: Feb 27, 2007

Konstantin posted:

Their heart is in the right place, but you know the union busters will spin this as "Your UAW dues will be used to attack Israel. Do you really want to support this radical leftist organization? In TN, you have a right to not pay dues."

union busters are gonna try to bust unions????? what the gently caress??????? retweet this now fam

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Pentecoastal Elites posted:

union busters are gonna try to bust unions????? what the gently caress??????? retweet this now fam

If Unions didn't take things too far the Pinkertons would have totally backed off, duh

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Jinnigan: Feb 12, 2007; We shall pay him a visit. There will be a picnic. Tea shall be served.

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Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

Jinnigan posted:

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Impossible, the media assured me that working class white people all thought the writers and actors were dumb and lazy

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Jinnigan: Feb 12, 2007; We shall pay him a visit. There will be a picnic. Tea shall be served.

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/chattanooga-vw-uaw-unionization/

I have very sensitive hands, so when I worked at a restaurant, I�d have constant breakouts on my hands. But at Moe�s, they had a diverse group of people in what they called the �super crew,� and it made Moe�s a defining place for me because one of them helped me stop believing in anti-social-justice-warrior crap.

I was watching a YouTuber who I didn�t quite realize is super right wing, and they�d rail against feminism. So I talked to a feminist who worked in the crew, and it was awesome; they helped explain a lot of things to me. Don�t ever let people tell you that those people are not inclusive, because they absolutely are. Personally, I call myself a socialist now.

[...]

ZACH COSTELLO
Yes, you didn�t have to distance yourself from the union in any argument. I�d always say, �This isn�t the 2019 UAW.�

Shawn came for a surprise visit to help us deliver a letter to the company telling them to stop union busting, and it was awesome. When he was there, he talked about how Mexicans are just people trying to find a better life and take care of their families. I remember thinking some of my coworkers needed to hear that. It has been pleasantly surprising to see who supports the union: you might expect people to be one way, and the �culture war� crap has really polarized people. But where the rubber meets the road, and they can see how it affects them, they see clearly.

And it�s important for people to know that those who support us also don�t want to treat human beings from a country south of us like they�re lesser and they deserve less than us. Shawn also talked about how terrible what is happening in Palestine is at that meeting.

One of the things that spurred us to send that letter to the company was that we were told not to distribute material at Gate Three of the plant. It was the first flyering at the gate that we did, and security came out and told us we could not distribute there. It was open union busting in front of multiple witnesses. We even offered to do it farther away from the gate, across the bridge, and they said that they�d still have to clear us out. That�s why Shawn came down.

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Jinnigan: Feb 12, 2007; We shall pay him a visit. There will be a picnic. Tea shall be served.

drat i can't believe betting on solidarity, teaching it and practicing it, led to victory. but maybe they could've won in an even bigger landslide if they shied away from talking about leftwing issues like feminism and immigrants and palestine

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spechtie: Feb 24, 2024

https://twitter.com/probablyreadit/status/1783975631480365510

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Pomeroy: Apr 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1784268000222126107

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https://twitter.com/sbworkersunited/status/1783866133621190762 We're making progress :unsmith:

I'm not jazzed about all the air travel I've signed myself up for on account of my covid fears, but I wouldn't feel right sitting this fight out just cause I was scared.

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AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

i dont know if anyone posted this but this is a pretty good interview with shawn fain

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60254581/uaw-leader-shawn-fain-is-bullish-on-the-american-auto-worker/

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Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

Union plans strike vote over crackdown on University of California Gaza protests
UAW Local 4811, largest union of academic workers, also says it will file unfair labor charges over university use of LAPD on protesters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/university-of-california-union-strike-vote-gaza-protests?ref=upstract.com

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The largest union of academic workers, which represents more than 48,000 graduate student workers throughout the University of California system, will hold a strike authorization vote as early as next week in response to how universities have cracked down on students� Gaza protests.

�The use and sanction of violent force to curtail peaceful protest is an attack on free speech and the right to demand change, and the university must sit down with students, unions, and campus organizations to negotiate, rather than escalate,� read an announcement of the strike vote from UAW local 4811.

Earlier this year, the union voted by a margin of more than nine to one in favor of supporting a ceasefire, according to the announcement.

Graduate workers last went on strike in November 2022 over a new union contract; it was the largest strike in US higher education history. They recently merged two UAW locals, 2865 and 5810, under the single UAW local 4811.

�We have been calling on the University of California to de-escalate and negotiate with the protesters over their very urgent and moral concerns and it failed to do that and it failed to protect students and workers and allowed this violence to occur,� Rafael Jaime, co-president of UAW 4811 and a graduate worker at UCLA, said.

�We�re holding a strike authorization vote to hold the university accountable and demand the university respect the members� right to protected speech and right to protest.�

He said the union also plans to file unfair labor practice charges against the University of California over the university�s use of the Los Angeles police department (LAPD) against protesters, and for changing policies unilaterally in response to the protests without bargaining.

�This is the defining issue of our generation, and it�s really important for all, not just workers at the University of California, but across the entire nation, to speak up and to ensure every worker has the right to speak on this issue,� added Jaime.

�We believe all workers, all students, have a fundamental right to engage in protests and engage in free speech, and universities need to respect that right.�

The United Auto Workers union, with 400,000 active members and over 500,000 retirees, is the largest US union to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, which they did in December.

UAW president Shawn Fain recently reaffirmed the union�s position. �Our union has been calling for a ceasefire for six months. This war is wrong and this response against students and academic workers, many of them UAW members, is wrong,� Fain said in a statement on Wednesday.

Graduate student workers are also calling on the National Labor Relations Board to weigh in on how universities have responded to pro-Palestinian protests, and whether those responses violate US labor laws and collective bargaining agreements.

The Graduate Labor Organization at Brown University has filed several unfair labor practice charges against the university in regards to pro-Palestinian protests and the university�s responses to them.

Forty-one students at Brown were arrested, and charges remain, despite the pro-Palestinian encampment dispersing as part of negotiations that include a planned vote by the university�s highest governing body for October on divesting from companies affiliated with Israel. The charges filed by the union allege that Brown unilaterally changed protest policies without bargaining, and made threats of retaliation toward union members for participating in pro-Palestine campus protests.

�It�s really about the university trying to leverage this fact that, as graduate workers, we do have student status, and kind of using that as a workaround for violating labor law. This has been their playbook on a whole host of issues,� said Michael Ziegler, political director of the Graduate Labor Organization and graduate worker at Brown.

�In the past five years, we�ve had something like 20 protests on the main green, and there was never any issue � the university didn�t take these actions. This is new, and I think a dangerous attempt by them to clamp down on the rights of speech and protected concerted action.�

UAW local 872, which represents around 3,000 graduate workers at the University of Southern California, has recently filed an unfair labor practice charge against the university over arrests of at least five union members. The union has called for charges to be dropped against all 93 protesters who were arrested on 24 April, and for the university to accede to demands from USC Divest from Death Coalition.

�USC�s summoning of LAPD riot police to arrest their own students and workers for peacefully demonstrating is abhorrent and wrong,� said Maile McCann, a local 872 member and PhD candidate in the civil engineering department at USC.

�The administration�s actions show an alarming disregard for our right as students and union members to engage in peaceful demonstrations, and their decisions have put international students in particular at serious risk. USC�s unnecessary escalation has resulted in a shameful waste of public resources for the purposes of silencing dissent.�

A spokesperson for USC said in an email: �We believe the charge is without merit, and [we] intend to defend our position before the National Labor Relations Board.�

A spokesperson for Brown University said in response to the unfair labor practice charges, �individuals are not absolved from abiding by Brown policies by virtue of union membership.�

�The University of California is deeply alarmed, concerned and disappointed that our UAW-represented academic employees would choose this moment of crisis to take a vote to engage in an unlawful work stoppage. UC values these employees and asks them to join it in supporting our communities at this time,� a spokesperson for the University of California system said in an email. �There is no basis under the contract or the law for UAW to engage in a work stoppage. Further, given the vulnerable status of our communities at this moment, a strike vote by UAW is essentially a vote to take advantage of and exploit this complex and impactful situation.�

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kingcobweb: Apr 16, 2005

get their rear end

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