There’s a #reason your #boss #lies to you about #union #membership.
union
On freaking #LaborDay weekend
#Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million #FederalWorkers of #Union Rights
Trump, who has targeted #CollectiveBargaining contracts for nearly one million government employees, has said their functions touch on #NationalSecurity [what a joke].
#law #labor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/us/politics/trumps-unions-federal-workers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration
I'm a part-time journalist and historian in #McKeesport, PA, and a full-time PR person at a major metropolitan university. Married.
#Union proud (NWU since 2000). #Cartoonist. I'm also known as W3MCK on #hamradio, and serve as the unexpected foreign body in the annals of #Pittsburgh #radio from 12 to 3 p.m. on Saturdays on WRCT 88.3 FM and Tube City Online internet radio.
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Self reminders (pinned):
- Help promote good news. Bad news travels well enough on its own.
- Get good local news and #union news out there!
- "Favorite" means "I read this". Use sparingly. It only means anything between me and the poster.
- "Boost" means "I liked this and want others to see it and know I liked it."
- Don't bother boosting or favoriting large account posts.
- Quote posts work. Use for good not for evil.
- hashtags don't do much. Set expectations accordingly.
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Today In Labor History March 27, 1904: The authorities kicked Mother Jones out of Colorado for “stirring-up” striking coal miners. Earlier in March, the authorities deported 60 striking miners from Colorado. In June, they arrested 22 in Telluride. For nearly 2 years, strikers, led by the Western Federation of Miners, were violently attacked by Pinkerton and Baldwin-Felts detectives. 33 strikers were killed. At least two scholars have said “There is no episode in American labor history in which violence was as systematically used by employers as in the Colorado labor war of 1903 and 1904.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #colorado #union #strike #mining #motherjones #WorkplaceViolence #scabs #coal #pinkertons #colorado #minewars #wfm #WesternFederationOfMiners #womenshistorymonth
Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee voted solidly to unionize with the UAW, after twice in the past voting down the #union.
This time, they may have noticed that union workers won higher pay and better benefits from US automakers in their strike last year.
https://theconversation.com/uaw-wins-big-at-volkswagen-in-tennessee-becoming-the-first-foreign-owned-factory-in-the-american-south-to-unionize-228319
#News #BreakngNews #Labor #Business
The United Auto Workers could be on the verge of a new round of strikes against car-makers.
Quick explainer to catch you up, including the political implications:
https://theconversation.com/uaw-is-threatening-new-smaller-strikes-against-stellantis-while-contending-with-pressure-from-a-court-appointed-monitor-239454
Das S steht für Scheißverein
Die Woche startet mit einer neuen Folge
@rebootpolitics \o/
Eine Zusammenfassung der #Bundestagswahl, ein Bericht zum #FeministischerKampftag, Datenschnorchelei von #O2, schon wieder rassistische #Polizei-Chats, ein neuer Versuch der #CSU für eine PKW-#Maut, Sicherheitslücken beim #BAMF, ein Wunsch nach einer digitalen #Brandmauer, die #Sondierungen von #Union und #SPD, #Merz und die #Omas_gegen_Rechts, weniger Wasserverbrauch nach #AKW-Abschaltung, eine besonders tolle Empfehlung und die Trends gibt es in der neuen Folge #RebootPolitics, aufgenommen am 9. März 2025.
▶️ https://podcasts.homes/@rebootpolitics/episodes/das-s-steht-fur-scheisverein
P.S.: Der alternative Titel, der vermutlich wieder Leute verwirrt hätte, wäre "Tauben nach Athen tragen", gewesen, eine Sprichwortneuschöpfung von @zwecki :D
#Podcast
#USSteel & #NipponSteel announced on Fri that they had entered into an agreement w/the #USgovernment to seal the terms of a “partnership” between the companies, >1yr after the Japanese #steel maker 1st tried to buy its US competitor.
President Joe #Biden, under pressure from the #UnitedSteelworkers #union, blocked the deal on the basis that it was a threat to #NationalSecurity. #Trump, who also initially opposed the deal, reversed himself & decided…to revive it.
Kroger is shuttering stores temporarily to pressure union to concede. Their offer is below the poverty levels set by the state! Their CEO took $15.4M home last year (450 times their average employee) and the company announced 7.5B in stock buybacks!! But now they cry poor, and want to stiff the workers.
#Teamsters #union #pride #fair #wages #job #security #slow #walking #negotiations #pay #below #minimum #wage #Kroger #greed #grocery #price #eggs #trucks #food #inflation https://www.thestreet.com/retail/kroger-faces-massive-worker-walkout-closed-stores
The only hike I'm ever interested in taking. 📈
#Corporatism #Samsung #Labor #Union #UnionsStrong #UnionsMatter #Strike #WageHike #SouthKorea