Get everyone possible to sign the card before you go. To the bosses
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2020 18:24 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 19:06 |
Headed back to Bessemer this weekend to try to raise support for the union among the community. Had a lot of really good stories from people, one was a dude who went to Michigan and worked at a factory organized by united auto workers and he was happy to put up signs and get his whole family to haha. Voting started a few weeks ago (its by mail) and ends March 31st I think. Hope it works out.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2021 05:21 |
I was canvassing Bessemer nearly every other weekend with psl, the majority of the community supports a union but that doesn't mean it will happen. Lots of the younger workers at the Amazon warehouse were the ones who told me they were voting no. loving idiot s
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2021 22:02 |
apropos to nothing posted:its cause of some of the problems and weaknesses of the campaign, combined with misinfo from amazon. know comrades who talked to folks there who had already cast a no vote but who after a 10 min convo had changed their mind. we cant be dismissive of people for not coming to the correct conclusions immediately we gotta be patient and always willing to work to win people over. I mean I'm not dismissive of them when I'm canvassing, doubt any of them are reading this thread. My thoughts are that this is probably the best chance to start a union drive in major retail companies. Amazon will be better prepared next time.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 09:52 |
Union vote failed. Expected but still sucks rear end
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2021 16:53 |
We aren't affiliated with the union but we knocked on ninety percent of the doors in Bessemer over January and first half of Feb.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2021 22:18 |
Carthag Tuek posted:idk how to say it without using sports cliches, but you did a great job, maybe next time, etc Nah I just mean the idea in that article- that there was nothing done to reach workers outside the workplace - is only partially true
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2021 08:36 |
Tom Smykowski posted:It sounded like the RWDSU wasn't having the Amazon workers who were trying to unionize doing any actual door knocking. Not to minimize the good and hard work you did, but I think she raises a good point that the actual workers need to be doing the same thing, too. That was what I meant by partially true lol. I agree
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2021 14:17 |
kingcobweb posted:stroking workers at a Kansas frito-lay plant have requested people pls not buy anything from frito-lay or Pepsi while they’re striking. get other snacks!! you can do it Man if they're having to work while actively having a stroke that's rough
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2021 07:12 |
Wow that contract offered the pension staying as well as a pretty sizeable raise iirc. They're really going for broke
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2021 19:31 |
kingcobweb posted:This is one of the most powerful first-hand accounts I’ve ever read about union organizing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/opinion/unions-oregon-assisted-living.html And yet they lost
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2022 18:09 |
kingcobweb posted:in the US, established union leadership is at low risk of this these days. lawyers have been more effective at crushing unions than guns and thugs over the last 50 years. Don't look up what happened to a lot of the prominent organizers of the Ferguson protests.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2022 21:49 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 19:06 |
kingcobweb posted:of course. but companies haven’t done that to union leaders lately. Right it was directed more to the second part of the quote
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2022 22:23 |