ekuNNN posted:

That reminds me of the 1941 Disney animators' strike, where they lynched and guillotined an effigy of Walt Disney

Oglethorpe posted:

the website is erroring out

Oglethorpe posted:

Try to find out if their departments were unionized while the finalists were there. Also be open-ended in your questions when direct contacting

In Training posted:

Good luck. Steward work is really beneficial for people if someone with militancy and energy is able to do it, the contract protection work between bargaining is hyper important! going through our own first grievance here with a new contract and trying to protect some coworkers from unfairly losing hours. The fight never ends

Lazy_Liberal posted:

hang in there webcams!

MrYenko posted:

Remember, you’re not there to throw a knockout; You’re there to be in the ring.

Greatbacon posted:

Way to keep fighting the good fight comrade! As an aside, are you training anyone else in your shop to help with this work?

I know burnout is real in organizing and training others is really the only way I've seen that helps mitigate it.

skooma512 posted:

Got promoted to unit rep for everyone in my title

lol the union gives me more mobility and more leadership opportunities that my actual job, or any job I've ever had.

HallelujahLee posted:

https://twitter.com/wrkrsstrikeback/status/1684959536443006984

https://www.workersstrikeback.org/wsbwrites-ups-vote-no

Worth a read i was skeptical of the deal but ill let others that know more take a read

Poppers posted:

Lol gently caress my life admin has thrown me and my coworkers a big ol employment outlook affecting curveball after we all signed individual contracts guess I’m the class salt now!!!!!!

MrYenko posted:

In Training posted:

IATSE is the weakest of the bunch. on the east coast they're basically a company union, not sure what the West Coast is like. also probably depends on what trade & local you're part of. they've done absolutely nothing for decades to meaningfully fight back against worsening work conditions on sets + the expansion of non-union PA roles encroaching on union labor. I don't work in movie production but have a lot of friends who do (or used to bc they got burned out mentally and physically to the point of just dropping the career) and have heard many horror stories

pink noise posted:

iatse isnt really set up to take actions like this because every local has a different contract with every venue, not really with the companies putting on the shows. not sure exactly how it works with movies in la, but i don't think all of local 1 in nyc could strike all of broadway, its dozens of separate contracts.

pink noise posted:

it makes sense in some ways. this theater has a big orchestra pit and complex fly rail, the musicians and riggers need different terms compared to that other blackbox with no pit or rigging. but yea, it means a company like live nation never has to negotiate with the unions to put on their international stadium tours, so the strength of the iatse locals in nyc, la, chicago, have no influence anywhere else.

pink noise posted:

it could certainly be better, but it was initially organized this way in the 19th century

Xaris posted:

gotta say, after WGA was wrapped up quicker than I expected with reasonably good results, I thought for sure SAG deal would go through quickly too. surprised they're now dragging that out

kingcobweb posted:

another classic in the “unions are always for Someone Else” genre, now with faux-progressive language https://www.404media.co/bandcamp-editorial-director-fuuuuuck-bandcamp-united/

In Training posted:

Yeah and it's sad like nobody has this. In the US at least idk about trade unions elsewhere.

Geight posted:

Our store was fully shutdown today, there was one anti-union worker who was talking a big game about how the manager was going to keep us open anyways and how he thought the picket would only serve to increase business, and absolutely none of it materialized. We had a modest picket outside for four hours, getting folks to sign petitions and informing them about our working conditions. Some local DSA lads stepped up to beef up our numbers, it was very much appreciated. It took us almost a year to get some direct action going but I'm pretty happy with our first foray.

Eiba posted:

Hello C-SPAM. First post in this subforum, long time lurker. Love you all, but you're kind of scary.

I work in a small town library. Half a year ago I was elected Steward for the municipal employees in my town. No idea what I was doing, hadn't really been involved before, but no one else stepped up. We're a small Union, not associated with any larger organization. I wanted to do what I could.

Immediately I was wrapped up in a consequential grievance- one town department was being asked to do the work of two departments. They tried to reclassify the positions and the Town Administrator sad "lol, no". This issue has been bouncing back and forth between the Town Administrator and the Select Board and the Union as long as I've been Steward here, so I ended up with a pretty solid grasp of the situation.

This last week the town Select Board asked for a meeting. Our Union president said the time for discussion was past, and we should just push through to arbitration. I didn't want to overstep my bounds, but I pressed to attend the meeting anyway. Even if they weren't going to give us anything, we might as well attend the meeting. It would look better during arbitration if we had been consistently open to talking, right?

So thanks to my advocacy, and my advocacy alone, the meeting happened. In the meeting I was able to outline our position cogently, and explain how all the previous offers from Town Administration were bullshit for various reasons. And the Select Board listened. Just tonight we received a counter-offer that gave us everything we were asking for! An entire town department will get paid for their out-of-grade work, thanks to me!

I'm just thrilled, and I want to shout it out into the ether so here I am. This was the only overtly union focused thread I could find when searching the forums, so I hope this is the appropriate place. Unions are awesome!