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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/home-depot-managers-philadelphia-union_n_63336cece4b0e376dbf0830c?63j Employees have been getting called into meetings with supervisors and taken out to lunch like never before, Quiles said. If workers at Quiles’ store were to vote for the union, it would be the first of Home Depot’s U.S. stores to organize. To prevent that from happening, the home improvement chain appears to be relying on a faithful tactic for employers: saturate the workplace with managers from near and far to discourage workers from unionizing. Quiles said he has received an unusual amount of attention from management in recent days, making it trickier to discuss the prospect of a union with his co-workers. “They’ve been following me all around the store,” he said. “Whenever I walk on the floor, I’ve got a manager or someone from loss prevention following me around.” Another worker at the store, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said the “flood” of managers went far beyond any normal “open-door” policy. The worker estimated that eight managers ― some from other stores, some who appeared to be from corporate headquarters ― had approached them in recent days to talk about the job and how the store might be improved. “Before this, I didn’t even know what my district manager looked like,” the worker said. “Seeing all these people, I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ I was so confused.” The worker said it was amusing to see a sudden surge of concern for how the store was operating. “We’ve all said it to HR ― we’ve emailed them this and that, and they barely implemented stuff,” the worker said. “But once [there’s talk of a union], they want to tighten up and help us out, and start doing stuff for us.” Quiles said he and his pro-union co-workers have chosen the name Home Depot Workers United for the would-be union. The group is not affiliated with an established union. A labor lawyer advised Quiles on the petition filing and will be training workers on how to spot unfair labor practices or labor law violations, according to Quiles. He says management began holding group meetings for workers this week in a training room at the store. It’s common for employers to hold such confabs during an organizing effort, with managers or outside consultants delivering talks aimed at undermining union support. Home Depot declined to discuss whether such meetings were taking place. Quiles said he did not personally sit in on any of the get-togethers. He said he suspected he was not invited because he was the one who filed the election petition with the labor board.
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PMA union sweeps https://twitter.com/PMA_Union/status/1581001140161781760
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In Training posted:Not knowing anything in particular about this event, but just in general you're making things so so much more difficult for your place if you call an election after hitting the minimum card check if 30%, which Im pretty sure they did here. From day 1 it means management gets to control the info for the other 70% and unless you have egregious working conditions + a super militant and devoted OC the odds are so stacked against it's practically impossible. previously chris smalls has talked about how it worked well the first time around. amazon warehouse employee churn rates are so high that if you're chasing 70% people quit faster than you can bring them in. calling an election ASAP locks the voting bloc in. probably it worked the first time around because 1. the unionizers knew it would be an uphill struggle and were ready for it, and 2. management wasn't on the ball with the anti-union machine. probably this time around either the organizers weren't as ready, or management was more ready, or both
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UFCW, champion of tiered membership. i dont remember the exact details but my friend got a job at a UFCW shop and he wouldve been at a poo poo tier minimum wage job for close to a decade before moving up. theyve always been bad
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source you are quotes or get that unionbusting money, brother
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nuked from orbit https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/status/1589262933393305601 well, better luck next time
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unions only have so many resources. if you want deeply trained and committed union organizers who can support your organizing for 2-3 years and also your contract negotiations for the next 1-2 years and then also support shop floor actions foreverever then you don't want a union that's promising those things to every tom dick and harry that's unhappy at work e: i think i phrased this as a morality check of right or wrong, but i don't mean it's bad or foolish for everyone to want and seek union support. it's more like a material constraint. imo of course unions would love to support everyone. but it's simply not realistic.
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i biked past some starbucks workers on a picket line this morning on the way to work. good on em
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random question just crossed my mind for no reason: are the UPS retail clerks union?
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oog https://twitter.com/Megan_Nicolett/status/1617938170318032897 CEO of a company called "proletariat" responds poorly when his employees try to unionize. lmao, i say, and oof
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Temple University grad students are on strike https://twitter.com/mings_ga/status/1623329072167243781 temple university cut their tuition remission as well as their healthcare benefits. "lmao"
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https://www.tugsa.org/strike Our Demands A Living Wage Current average pay for graduate employees is $19,500 a year. Our proposed base-wage of $32,800 is designed to bring graduate employee pay in line with living costs in Philadelphia based on the MIT Living Wage Calculator, as of January 2021 when negotiations began. Other Universities in the area like Penn have already acknowledged this need, raising their graduate pay to $38,000. Graduate employees should be able to live in the city where they work. Healthcare for Dependents and Families The cost of adding dependents to graduate employee healthcare plans are prohibitively expensive. The cost of adding just one dependent to a plan for a year is almost a third of the total annual salary of graduate employees. Adding two or three dependents amounts to roughly 58% and 86% of the annual salary. Longer Parental and Bereavement Leave Despite graduate school being a time in life when many people want to start families and Temple marketing itself as an institution of accessibility, Temple’s policies make this impossible. Temple currently provides only 5 days of parental leave. Better Working Conditions It’s one of our most basic rights as a union to negotiate over the terms of our workload, yet the administration refuses to engage at all with our proposals that would help address widespread overwork and mismanagement of contracts and work assignments. Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions, and when our conditions are substandard, our students suffer.
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MrYenko posted:We are in desperate need of a solidarity smiley. Someone art some poo poo up. I’m like, an idea guy. it might be too detailed or large to turn into a smiley but i think a pixel interpretation of this would be good i think: 
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Agean90 posted:love to email the labor organizers with a message proudly announcing my intent to do labor crimes who enforces that law. NLRB?
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i applied for a job at TUGSA but they never got back to me. sad! i coulda been in the mix!!
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fwiw PA NLRB just sided with a couple of workers who asked their education non-profit ED for raises and got disciplined for their trouble. so maybe that bodes well for the legal case https://www.inquirer.com/news/youth-united-for-change-nlrb-settlement-20230118.html i don't understand enough about the NLRB protections or arb structure or internal dynamics to really know anything at all thuogh Jinnigan has issued a correction as of 19:38 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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shameful poo poo https://twitter.com/JennaRSterling/status/1623387037817802752
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what's. uhhhh. whats the deal with this guy https://paydayreport.com/uaw-challenger-fain-purges-top-allies-in-favor-of-brooklyn-consultants/ However, Payday Report has learned Fain has already fired his previously-chosen chief of staff, Joe Rioux, and most of his previously chosen top senior staffers. The mass firings come after Rioux and former top Fain’s staffers raised concerns about racial diversity in their leadership and the top-down nature of a controversial Brooklyn-based union consultant and “labor media famous” 35-year-old labor writer named Chris Brooks. After other staffers voiced similar concerns, Fain also fired top allies, including Anna Bakalis, Jonathan Smuckler, Sarah Saheb, and Allison Troy. Later, Susan Pratt chose to resign in solidarity with them. Rioux addressed concerns regarding the dismissal of Fain’s previously selected senior leadership team and its implication for the UAW reform movement in a 5-page memo written on Feb. 22, after his dismissal. In the memo, Rioux drew particular issue with the role of the controversial Brooklyn-based union consultant, Brooks, who currently serves as the field director of the extremely influential New York NewsGuild. Brooks, a well connected labor social media influencer, played a key role in helping Fain garner votes among the 1/3rd of the union’s membership that is now made up of university graduate student employees. However, among Black labor leaders, Brooks has never been very popular. Fain’s senior top staffers had expressed their concern about naming an inexperienced social media savvy former labor writer to a top leadership position with the very racially diverse UAW. The union’s current incumbent president, Ray Curry, is a 58-year old Black man from North Carolina. In June of 2022 Brooks drew heavy criticism when he dismissed the possibility that Black Lives Matter was inspiring a massive upsurge of strike activities, leading prominent Black labor leaders to criticize him in an extended piece for Payday Report.
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Here's a link to the former chief of staff's letter. https://paydayreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FILE_7609.pdf The situation seems............. gnarly
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ok thats cool. imho https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1650548923440803848
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[dead prez voice] hell yeah https://twitter.com/cirseiu/status/1655658418546286594 (medical residents and staff)
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:buddy of mine has been organizing my two thoughts are: firstly its too late now. if you went to the NLRB as bird union, well, now you're bird union. sorry but that's what all the press releases say. secondly at no point would a more serious name ever make management take you seriously, because language isnt what changes management behavior anyways the people love a good bird union and tahts what matters, innit?
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kingcobweb posted:A former National Labor Relations Board attorney told Bloomberg Law that the labor movement dodged a bullet with Thursday’s decision.
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kingcobweb posted:this is why everyone at a hospital should be in one union [requiem for a dream voice] wall to wall! wall to wall! wall to wall!
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In Training posted:interesting developments at ALU "That effort was capped off by a failed attempt at mediation by veteran labor educator and organizer Bill Fletcher. The ALU board had agreed to mediation and even suggested Fletcher as a mediator—then reversed course and rejected mediation before it could begin." i've seen fletchers name pop up here and there, mostly through a union organizer that i personally detested. is fletcher For Real or is he a dinosaur/snake oil/hanger on?
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In Training posted:here's another US labor W to celebrate is "UAW International" a meaningful part of UAW leadership structure or is it weird trots again
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https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-endorses-ceasefire-labor-gaza-israel-palestine The United Auto Workers have endorsed a cease-fire, making them the largest national union to do so in a major development for labor and the larger movement for peace and justice in Palestine and Israel. Brandon Mancilla, Director of United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9A, which represents 50,000 active and retired workers within the larger UAW, announced the union’s call for a cease-fire publicly on Friday at a news conference outside of the White House where organizers and activists have been on a hunger strike. i would really like to believe that UAW as a whole is behind a ceasefire but i am smelling some internecine factional politics here. somebody please prove me wrong
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kingcobweb posted:it’s the highest decisionmaking body. actual leadership. ah, thank you
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Animal-Mother posted:AFSCME is bringing pins for us to wear these days. Something's happening this year. drat maybe its time i started going to AFSCME meetings
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https://twitter.com/rsgexp/status/1779873271665607059 jane mcalevey has been battling cancer for three years and is now moving to hospice care. this sucks man
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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. Jinnigan has issued a correction as of 01:43 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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