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"putting the movement back in the labor movement" with
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at labornotes.org // weekly newsletter at: whogetsthebird.substack.com
Joined October 2019
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THIS WEEK: --> AFT Vermont quietly wins (one of?) the biggest union elections outside of Amazon or higher education in years --> Workers at Caterpillar, King Kullen grocery stores, two Michigan hospitals, the city of Portland, & more move towards strikes
whogetsthebird.substack.com
The week in US unions, January 22-29, 2023
STRIKES & NEGOTIATIONS Last week, I mused that the HarperCollins UAW Local 2110 strike (which is now bringing in a federal mediator) might be the longest running strike outside of Warrior Met now...
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HAW
@HAWorkers
We’re proud to announce the campaign to unionize non-tenure-track faculty and researchers within Harvard University—we are Harvard Academic Workers - UAW! We unite ~6000 workers across all 12 Harvard schools. 🧵
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Bleeding Heartland
@LauraRBelin
Teamsters announced today that strike was averted as Iowa members (in Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Ottumwa, Burlington, Des Moines, Mason City, Sioux City & elsewhere) ratified new 3-year agreement with Aramark. Deal increases wages w/o increasing % employees will pay for health care.
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Senator Bob Casey
@SenBobCasey
Employers are increasingly using invasive surveillance technologies that allow them to track their workers like pieces of equipment. I introduced the Stop Spying Bosses Act today because workers deserve to be treated with basic dignity in the workplace.
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USA TODAY
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Numerous reports in the COVID era shined a spotlight on a darker reality of the remote workplace: spying bosses. This is happening at "a lot of companies," Dan Mauer, director of government affairs at Communications Workers of America, told USA TODAY. bit.ly/3YemZsC
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REI is going hardcore anti-union, trying to stop another store from unionizing.
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REI Union Cleveland
@reiunioncle
Let's talk about the facts when it comes to @REI's latest union busting here in Ohio. If you agree that REI should stop delaying our election and #letREIvote, write a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/let-re
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Jacobin
@jacobin
Some have argued that changes in US voting patterns signal a decoupling of the party system from the politics of class. But disregarding the complicated ways income and education interact misunderstands the precise nature of this shift.
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US Voting Patterns Are Shifting. But It’s Not Simply “Class Dealignment.”
It’s not that partisan voting patterns are becoming decoupled from class — it’s that a complicated new set of alignments, rooted in the social and occupational structures of a postindustrial economy,...
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More great NYC labor reporting from
@clauirizarry
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Unions representing more than 1,000 Metro-North Railroad workers, the nation’s second-busiest commuter railroad, are beginning to rumble about a potential strike. They have been bargaining with the MTA since 2019. thecity.nyc/2023/2/1/23580 w/ @JMartinezNYC @THECITYNY
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Darren Dreger
@DarrenDreger
Interesting development in the NHLPA exec director search. Sources say Marty Walsh, current US Secretary of Labor is believed to be the top candidate. The NHLPA Board will meet tomorrow to further discuss. A vote is required by the board to complete the process.
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Ivan Diaz
@ivanforkent
This morning, I was fired from Lake Michigan Credit Union for my efforts to unionize my branch. Although my coworkers and I were successful in forming the LMCUWA (Lake Michigan Credit Union Workers Alliance), LMCU decided to violate federal law by taking this action.
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it's also such glorious Democrat-brain. both-sidesing yourself into getting special counseled by the Supreme Court judge you failed to seat while the supervillain you oppose attempted a coup and is running for president again with no consequences
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[sorry to just block quote, but the technocratic organizer in the US would do well to think about why exactly other countries are able to pull off what we could never, with none of the 'fundamentals'; law and consciousness go much further than us voluntarists would like to admit]
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"Unions put out their calls to strike, they hope it resonates, and they cross their fingers. Perhaps it’s worth a separate newsletter to explain why French unions don’t prioritize organizing like some of their counterparts in the US or UK."
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"... one-on-one conversations when recruiting new members at workplaces; careful gauging of member support for various initiatives; building up support for strikes through smaller tests of collective power, etc. For lack of a better word, everything is a lot messier in France."
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"There are pockets of exceptions, but by and large, French unions don’t deploy the kind of internal organizing tactics that are common in some of the most effective, member-driven unions in the US..."
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Cole Stangler
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New newsletter is up... and since exceptional times call for exceptional measures, it's open to everyone, subscribers and non-subscribers alike. A closer look at the widely-backed movement against pension reform in France and what's next. patreon.com/posts/movement
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Jacob Remes
@jacremes
You love to see it. Today, to start a month of intermittent strikes, rail workers, university workers, primary and secondary teachers, and more than 100,000 civil servants in 124 government departments are striking across the UK. Half a million strikers in all today.
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