I couldn’t find one, that we should have one. Mostly because I was looking for a place to post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtXprCW45RI
Background on Frito-Lay strike: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/7/21/22586982/frito-lay-products-strike-boycott-topeka-kansas
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 23 July 2021 12:51 (two years ago) link
good thread
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
I've been encouraged to see a lot more ferment and labor talk even here in my very red state over the past year. Local service workers formed Facebook groups etc., have become a lot more outspoken. Still a long way from real organization in most cases, but the ground is fertile.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
(btw the video clip at the top is a skit)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
posted this on union rat thread
Today, a majority of the Board found that a union’s use of rats or other inflatables, along with other bannering activity, does not violate the National Labor Relations Act, even when targeting a neutral employer. Read more: https://t.co/d5F9OjBJ2Y— NLRB (@NLRB) July 21, 2021
― criminally negligible (harbl), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
Long live Scabby.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
My wife works in this area and told me about one employer who responded with an inflatable cat.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
Was it ... a fat cat?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
I think there have been those as well.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Interesting news from the Teamsters: https://www.labornotes.org/2021/07/convention-no-other-teamster-challengers-turn-corner
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
<3
No contract. No snacks. Flour and sugar stays on tracks. https://t.co/F7g00htw1H— Railroad Workers United ✊ (@railroadworkers) August 27, 2021
― criminally negligible (harbl), Friday, 27 August 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
Happy Labor Day! Leave that Nabisco alone.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/labor-day-demands-supporting-nabisco-s-striking-bakery-workers-n1278486
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 6 September 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
It’s on.
https://iatse.net/by-a-nearly-unanimous-margin-iatse-members-in-tv-and-film-production-vote-to-authorize-a-nationwide-strike/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah here comes big daddy
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
Maybe I've just been looking in the wrong places, but is there a deadline for when the strike would start? Seems like they are still giving the studios one more chance first...
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
They are. The idea is that if this doesn't make it happen, they can then call the strike; the vote was to authorize the union leader to call the strike as needed rather than a specific vote TO strike, if you see the difference.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 02:18 (two years ago) link
John Deere may be headed to the picket line: https://gizmodo.com/john-deere-workers-sure-look-like-they-re-about-to-go-o-1847847258
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
And we might be about to get the first unionized Dollar General: https://inthesetimes.com/article/dollar-general-workers-store-connecticut-union-campaign
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
wow gizmodo comments are woke
one for the 'left wing drift' thread
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
the dollar general story is great - also grim, also just incredibly familiar. the same things play out again and again and again. places like walmart swoop down like hawks on anybody attempting to unionize. they do captive audience meetings with powerpoints showing employees that their wages will go down etc - and it fucking works. and i guess ufcw just doesn't have the resources to fight it? i dunno. i hope it goes down differently this time.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
IATSE gonna strike on the 18th
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
i keep thinking about these low wage big box jobs and like, 7-11s and stuff. i guess the turnover is just so high, and they're shitty jobs anyway, that it's like... how many people are going to put in the work to actually fight for dignity in these jobs? how many people are going to face the absolute mountain of shit the company is going to rain down on them and make it through to the other side? if it really gets bad you quit and get a job somewhere else if you can. move on.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
The John Deere strike is underway.
For anyone just catching up on the 10,000 worker UAW strike at John Deere -- the largest strike in the US in two years -- here's how you can get up to speed, based on what I've written for @labornotes:— Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) October 14, 2021
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 14 October 2021 05:58 (two years ago) link
lmao Deere itself put out a graphic in August to show how much better their employees have it, because of their pension -
Here's another great image from Deere management.In August, they told UAW members how much better they had it than at competitors CAT and CNH, because of the pension.Now Deere wants to eliminate the pension, and the stool is collapsing; but not in the way the company thought! pic.twitter.com/uLJ9BiERIo— Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) October 13, 2021
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 October 2021 08:12 (two years ago) link
sorry just restated the tweet there, so you get the drift, doubly
John Deere is trying to break a strike by having salaried office workers operate heavy machinery, let’s see how that’s going— pic.twitter.com/Yb1JkoFAH8— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) October 15, 2021
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 15 October 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
So happy for the IATSE strike. My union’s working conditions are way better than theirs and I’m still reeling after each film shoot, it’s a very tough industry. I can’t imagine what IATSE members have been going through and I really hope the strike brings about change.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 15 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
A few days ago the nurses union for Kaiser-Permanente, a very big health care provider on the US west coast, voted to authorize a strike whenever their leadership decides that contract talks have broken down completely. The management was offering them a 1% raise!
btw, they're my provider. if they screw this up I'll be mad as hell at management not the nurses.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 16 October 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
Looks like a whole lot of people aren’t taking it anymore
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 16 October 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
There was a regular at the bar who I hadn't seen for months. He was in Thursday, said he'd had enough of 70-80 hour weeks and had quit his job. I said "way to go, comrade, I love seeing power swing from mgmt to labor." He's a typical white middleaged southern conservative and was extremely uncomfortable with this.
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
this little wave of strikes is literally the only thing giving me any kind of hope at all about making a better world
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
xp lol
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
So IATSE tweeted this out, but a lot of tweets saying the deal sucks and/or isn’t much better than the previous one and that they plan to vote no:
“We went toe to toe with some of the richest and most powerful entertainment and tech companies in the world, and we havenow reached an agreement with the AMPTP that meets our members’ needs.”https://t.co/861fwvQNii— IATSE // #IASolidarity (@IATSE) October 17, 2021
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 17 October 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
BREAKING: @BVWU_IWW has reached a tentative agreement with Burgerville. If ratified, 100 workers at five Oregon locations will become the only fast food workforce in the U.S. to be covered by a union contract. They’ve been in contract negotiations since 2018. A historic moment! pic.twitter.com/ujUJaGenLp— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) November 12, 2021
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 November 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
the wobblies??
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 November 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
the workers at the local bathhouse here in Toronto won their union drive!!!
we won 🥲 https://t.co/VjscVj78gP— graeme lamb (@_gmlamb) November 12, 2021
― Murgatroid, Friday, 12 November 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
yup. the wobblies are still out there.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 12 November 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
Activision action
https://www.polygon.com/22786117/activision-blizzard-walk-out-bobby-kotick-resignation-demands
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
https://lbo-news.com/2021/11/12/striketober-wasnt/
As marvelous as it would be to see a revival of labor militancy, people got a little ahead of things calling last month “Striketober.” According to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) stats, it was a blip by historical standards.Here’s a graph of the number of workers involved in strikes or lockouts (the BLS counts them together) since 2000. There were 57 months with higher numbers of workers off the job. At the high point of this graph, May 2018, there were over fourteen times as many workers on strike as there were last month.https://doughenwood.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/stoppages-monthly.png?w=1280Here’s another measurement—what the BLS, in nice Victorian fashion, calls “days of idleness” as a percent of total days worked throughout the economy. It was 0.01% in October, a level that’s been matched in 39 other months since January 2000. And as the bottom graph shows, back in the old days when strikes were frequent, lost workdays were many times 0.01%. Before 1980, the low was 0.07%, set in 1957. From 1948 to 1979, it averaged 0.16%. In 1959, just two years after the pre-neoliberal era low, it was 0.43%, the series high.
Here’s a graph of the number of workers involved in strikes or lockouts (the BLS counts them together) since 2000. There were 57 months with higher numbers of workers off the job. At the high point of this graph, May 2018, there were over fourteen times as many workers on strike as there were last month.
https://doughenwood.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/stoppages-monthly.png?w=1280
Here’s another measurement—what the BLS, in nice Victorian fashion, calls “days of idleness” as a percent of total days worked throughout the economy. It was 0.01% in October, a level that’s been matched in 39 other months since January 2000. And as the bottom graph shows, back in the old days when strikes were frequent, lost workdays were many times 0.01%. Before 1980, the low was 0.07%, set in 1957. From 1948 to 1979, it averaged 0.16%. In 1959, just two years after the pre-neoliberal era low, it was 0.43%, the series high.
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
there's always hope for strikevember
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/kaiser-nurses-to-hold-sympathy-strike-in-solidarity-with-engineers/
― sarahell, Thursday, 18 November 2021 03:17 (two years ago) link
BREAKING: The 10,000 striking John Deere workers voted to approve a third contract offer 61%-39%, ending the 5-week strike & solidifying major concessions from the company.The big wins include:- $8500 bonus- Immediate 10% raise- Another 10% raise by 2025- Improved pension— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) November 18, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 18 November 2021 03:27 (two years ago) link
nice
― flopson, Thursday, 18 November 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link
I think the disproportionate attention is because — at least for the moment — there's a lot of focus on workers, or lack of workers. But it's a good opportunity to get people thinking about it. And publicity for something like the John Deere deal is worth a lot in making people think organizing could work for them.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 November 2021 05:16 (two years ago) link
yeah if it sticks, more media focus on strikes is a welcome trend
― flopson, Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
i saw some people who cover labor complaining about erasure in this piece, but the fact that it's getting written about as a media trend is a sign something is different (for now) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/business/media/labor-unions-media-coverage.html.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
my guess is labor power is about to begin a secular increase for the next few decades, not just for political reasons but because the US is trending towards labor scarcity. the trump/stephen miller reductions in legal immigration (which reduced refugee/asylum-seeker inflows by 100% and green cards by 50%) is now consensus policy, and birth-rates are below replacement. the working-age population started to shrink around 2018-19 and will probably accelerate
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=J3eH
― flopson, Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
we named the cc https://t.co/3bcwZPZjmN— Michael Rose (@dcmichaelrose) December 13, 2021
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
sorry, posted reply instead of tweet
Wow. An NLRB employee has been charged with bribery and fraud. Charging doc alleges she was selling non-public info on potential union elections and ULP's to an outside labor consultant who would then sell the info to law firms https://t.co/6ybLIeD3Q8 pic.twitter.com/hh7k8Nxkp1— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) December 13, 2021
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
look at the world's tiniest legal notice on the bottom
That last bullet point is fucking despicable.#SupportWorkers #FredMeyerStrike pic.twitter.com/ydAG1aJCOC— Shawn Levy (@shawnlevy) December 17, 2021
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 17 December 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
Workers at Powells Books in Portland are holding a one-day strike rally Im heading downtown for
Alright, y’all, let’s do this! 🪧✊📣On Monday, September 4, workers at Powell’s Books will be going on a one-day Unfair Labor Practice Strike. This will be the first strike for Powell’s workers in 20 years! Come join us on the picket line!RSVP: https://t.co/G8UK7fYazR pic.twitter.com/Wy1PcfVGuM— ILWU Local 5 (@ILWULocal5) August 22, 2023
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 4 September 2023 19:32 (six months ago) link
This is not a labor action but I would like to suggest several actions against this asshole. (Same dude who went viral for telling millennials to stop buying avocado toast.)
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude." https://t.co/lcX3CCxGuj pic.twitter.com/f9HK2YZRRE— Financial Review (@FinancialReview) September 12, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:26 (six months ago) link
there's a face in need of a fist
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:40 (six months ago) link
another Tim Heidecker persona?
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:34 (six months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/tuc-agrees-non-compliance-strategy-against-anti-strike-laws
Meeting at the Trades Union Congress’s annual meeting in Liverpool, delegates unanimously agreed to seek to resist the new law, which allows public sector employers to establish “minimum service levels” on strike days.“That’s what we have to do – that’s the message,” the RMT leader, Mick Lynch, told union activists at the conference. “We are a fighting union movement and we are going to turn this legislation over.”The motion says: “We have no choice but to build mass opposition to the minimum service levels laws, up to and including a strategy of non-compliance and non-cooperation to make them unworkable, including industrial action.”The Fire Brigades Union leader, Matt Wrack, described it as a “message of defiance” to the government, signalling that “this government’s nasty, authoritarian agenda will be vigorously opposed by the trade union movement”.
“That’s what we have to do – that’s the message,” the RMT leader, Mick Lynch, told union activists at the conference. “We are a fighting union movement and we are going to turn this legislation over.”
The motion says: “We have no choice but to build mass opposition to the minimum service levels laws, up to and including a strategy of non-compliance and non-cooperation to make them unworkable, including industrial action.”
The Fire Brigades Union leader, Matt Wrack, described it as a “message of defiance” to the government, signalling that “this government’s nasty, authoritarian agenda will be vigorously opposed by the trade union movement”.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 22:58 (six months ago) link
Worthwhile interview with Sam Gindin here about the UPS Teamster bargaining and its shortcomings
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 00:21 (six months ago) link
https://shows.acast.com/jacobin-radio/episodes/behind-the-news-cold-war-liberalism-ups-teamsters
Announcement via More Perfect Union:
BREAKING: Marvel VFX workers have just won a historic first union in the visual effects industry.The workers who power the biggest superhero movies on the planet voted unanimously to unionize with vfxunion.This is a major first step for the industry, and Disney is next.
The workers who power the biggest superhero movies on the planet voted unanimously to unionize with vfxunion.
This is a major first step for the industry, and Disney is next.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 17:21 (six months ago) link
YES!!!!!!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 17:22 (six months ago) link
let's go
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/detroit-three-strike-deadline-nears-sides-remain-far-apart-2023-09-14/
― budo jeru, Friday, 15 September 2023 03:02 (six months ago) link
Bring it
It’s already broughten
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/business/auto-workers-strike/index.html
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 15 September 2023 14:42 (six months ago) link
✊
― brimstead, Friday, 15 September 2023 15:28 (six months ago) link
Hmmm
https://deadline.com/2023/09/authors-openai-lawsuit-john-grisham-george-rr-martin-1235551400/?fbclid=IwAR0M4ucuTIo2ajqI0TWxyjY_b2OOpN4IvenGukPPqluE64XtuimH32U2CB0
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 22:41 (six months ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/24/1200770450/writers-strike-ends
Tentative deal reached
― I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Monday, 25 September 2023 02:41 (six months ago) link
👍🏽
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 25 September 2023 11:12 (six months ago) link
Back to work
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/26/business/wga-back-to-work/index.html
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 08:51 (six months ago) link
Another good thing!
https://variety.com/2023/artisans/news/walt-disney-pictures-vfx-workers-unionize-1235730179/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 17:57 (five months ago) link
Also this!
Student Assistants are making history by forming a union with @CSUEU. This is the largest non-academic student worker campaign in U.S. history. Next stop, a UNION YES election. @CalState administration needs to accept PERB decision & let Student Assistants Vote! #CSUStudentsWork pic.twitter.com/JcYTz64v5I— CSUEU (@CSUEU) October 3, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 19:47 (five months ago) link
Looking good...
https://apnews.com/article/auto-workers-strike-general-motors-battery-plants-a6ad7d6b9c3f42c24f3c7dbe21f4b694
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 October 2023 19:28 (five months ago) link
walgreens pharmacy workers (who are not yet unionized) have organized a walkout mostly on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/WalgreensStores/) and facebook afaict
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 October 2023 18:52 (five months ago) link
some local labour action: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/public-sector-workers-quebec-canada-general-strike-common-front
― rob, Thursday, 12 October 2023 13:12 (five months ago) link
https://deadline.com/2023/10/levar-burton-drew-barrymore-national-book-awards-1235572952/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 13 October 2023 20:00 (five months ago) link
On we go
https://www.thewrap.com/why-sag-studio-talks-ended-fran-drescher/?fbclid=IwAR0sgKE4qvLo2P7Iz1M-FCGkzvJsZLUpgPp2IGybBxFF5rCXBlCPQPQlC_c
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 09:52 (five months ago) link
https://www.thewrap.com/studios-sag-strike-one-week-deadline/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:37 (five months ago) link
yessss
https://archive.ph/2023.10.30-192803/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/uaw-strike-why-elon-musk-tesla-could-be-union-s-next-target
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 October 2023 21:01 (four months ago) link
oh please
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 30 October 2023 21:20 (four months ago) link
new boss unlocked
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 30 October 2023 21:50 (four months ago) link
Tesla workers should be unionized. Driving Elon absolutely nuts and to the point he commits multiple unfair labor practice violations is just the sweetener.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 30 October 2023 22:13 (four months ago) link
A six-week wave of strikes that hobbled the three largest U.S. automakers has resulted in tentative contract agreements that would give workers their biggest pay raises in decades while avoiding a protracted work stoppage that could have damaged the economy.
On Monday, General Motors and the United Automobile Workers reached a deal that mirrored agreements the union had reached in recent days with Ford Motor and Stellantis, the parent company of Ram, Jeep and Chrysler. The terms will be costly for the automakers as they undertake a switch to electric vehicles, while setting the stage for labor strife and demands for higher pay at nonunion automakers like Tesla and Toyota.
The tentative agreements, which still require ratification by union members, also appeared to be a win for President Biden, who had risked political capital by picketing with striking workers at a G.M. facility in Michigan last month.
“They have reached a historic agreement,” Mr. Biden said Monday after speaking with Shawn Fain, the U.A.W. president. The deals, the president said, “reward autoworkers who gave up much to keep the industry working and going during the global financial crisis more than a decade ago.”
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 01:22 (four months ago) link
Flawless victory
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 11:00 (four months ago) link
Cool
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/toyota-raises-uaw-strike-ford-gm
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 23:31 (four months ago) link
Cool!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/world/europe/sweden-tesla-strike.html
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 23:45 (four months ago) link
Let Oscar campaigning season commence
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-tentative-deal-historic-strike-1235771894/amp/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 November 2023 01:33 (four months ago) link
I've got an actor friend losing his shit on FB right now over how bad he feels the SAG deal is.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 November 2023 05:34 (four months ago) link
What’re his complaints?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 November 2023 11:10 (four months ago) link
The pay raise isn't high enough, particularly when they are also promising shorter, more efficient work hours (ultimately less pay overall).
But his big deal is that he feels the AI restrictions/protocols don't go far enough, particularly on a three-year contract because the tech will so much stronger when they're back at the negotiating table there's no way a good deal is happening them or any time afterwards.
I'm inclined to believe him there, because his current day job is a consulting thing with Disney, where he goes around the country checking up on projects at their different studio and tech spaces, so he knows a bit about what they are already doing re: computerization and AI.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:30 (four months ago) link
New: How Formula One accidentally helped Las Vegas workers land the 'best contract ever'Culinary Union, threatening a mass strike timed to the much-hyped F1 race, inked deals w/casino giants mere days before the event.They say it gave them "leverage."https://t.co/5IgYmqYOIL— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 22, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:31 (four months ago) link
Washington Post striking tomorrow
https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/12/05/washington-post-staffers-will-go-on-strike-thursday/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 18:22 (three months ago) link
Get ready
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/iatse-teamsters-hollywood-labor-peace-next-year-1235823080/amp/
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 January 2024 02:56 (two months ago) link
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/18/media/los-angeles-times-staffers-to-protest-layoffs/index.html
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 19 January 2024 02:11 (two months ago) link
Was bummed to read this, I thought he was a good one
‘A slap in the face’: progressive anger as Teamsters union chief meets Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/teamsters-union-chief-trump-meeting
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 January 2024 02:30 (two months ago) link
This will be big if it comes through: Unionizing a VW plant in Chattanooga that has twice voted not to unionize. (Under crazy heavy pressure campaigns, of course, including our own governor warning of apocalypse etc.)
The United Auto Workers union says it has signed up the majority of employees at Volkswagen AG’s Tennessee plant, teeing up a high-stakes test of the union’s ability to expand its ranks following its record Detroit contract wins.
In November, the UAW announced an audacious effort to organize 13 automakers’ non-union plants, including Toyota Motor Corp., Tesla Inc., and Nissan Motor Co. facilities. The union, which represents around 265,000 automaker or auto parts employees, is aiming to organize around 150,000 more workers at those 13 firms. VW’s Chattanooga factory is the first of those locations where the union says it’s secured over 50% support. It previously announced signing up more than 30% of employees at Mercedes-Benz Group AG and Hyundai Motor Co. facilities in Alabama.
Under US law, a company can voluntarily recognize and negotiate with a union once a majority of workers have signed union cards, or can refuse to do so unless the group first wins a government-run election. The UAW has said it will seek recognition once it has 70% of a plant signed up.
“Momentum’s picked up in a big way,” said Zach Costello, a six-year VW employee who’s a member of the Tennessee plant’s UAW organizing committee. The union’s successful strike last year against Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., and Stellantis NV, which ended with agreements that will boost many union members’ pay by a third or more, “was massively influential in waking people up” at the VW factory, Costello said. “It really turned a lot of people to our side.”
And of course ...
The Center for Union Facts, a business-backed nonprofit, on Monday announced plans to place billboards in cities including Chattanooga advertising a website that criticizes the union’s political stances, contracts, and past corruption scandals.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/uaw-signs-up-majority-of-workers-at-vw-plant-after-detroit-wins
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:48 (one month ago) link
On the bad front, the union at the school where I adjunct has secured a tentative agreement that is fucking wack, and is not a win at all, particularly for more rank and file members. I am furious and will be voting NO on ratification and withdrawing my card after this is over— honestly, my experience with academic unions has been so bad that I will never voluntarily join a union ever again.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 22:01 (one month ago) link
Uber
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/13/business/uber-lyft-deliveroo-valentines-strike/index.html
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 20:23 (one month ago) link
On the bad front, the union at the school where I adjunct has secured a tentative agreement that is _fucking wack_, and is not a win at all, particularly for more rank and file members. I am furious and will be voting NO on ratification and withdrawing my card after this is over— honestly, my experience with academic unions has been _so bad_ that I will never voluntarily join a union ever again.
― john shopkins (naus), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 07:26 (one month ago) link
No, it’s a corrupt union leadership working in concert with the school and accepting the first TA offered. I know because two friends who have worked for the AFT told me privately that they agree with me but can’t say so publicly, and told me why. Also, spare me the “you can do such and such.” You think I have time for that when I’m making next to nothing because the union is deferential to management’s needs to fuck over employees? Please . Get one clue.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 12:13 (one month ago) link
Big deal
https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2024/message-from-sara-starbucks-and-workers-united-agree-on-path-forward/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 23:01 (one month ago) link
It's interesting how many European & Korean companies have absolutely no issues with collective bargaining.. even VW was fine with their Tennessee plant going union, it's just part of the businessIt makes it easier to budget when you know what your labor expenses are going to be, years in advance
Corporate America just has this utter contempt for the worker, like they should be fucking grateful to get a fifteen minute break now and then
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 23:31 (one month ago) link
^^^^ Speak of the devil
Under previous leadership at the UAW, the union came close to winning elections in 2014 and 2019 at the plant but came up short after a surge of anti-union organizations and Republican elected officials aggressively opposed the efforts. Similar efforts have already begun during the current campaign at the plant.
US Volkswagen workers file for union election to join United Auto Workers
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/18/volkswagen-workers-file-union-election-to-join-uaw
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 March 2024 20:04 (one week ago) link
IATSE seems to be making deals
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/iatse-negotiations-cinematographers-reach-deal-craft-issues-1235857297/amp/
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 23 March 2024 11:38 (six days ago) link