A More Perfect Union

[viscousmemories]

Is there a thread dedicated to labor unions on this forum? If not, there is now. If there is someone will post a link in the replies and you never have to see this again.

I understand four Michigan Starbucks (including two in my hometown Ann Arbor) have filed with the NLRB to unionize. I feel like this is part of a growing trend across the country across all industries, but maybe my bubble is small.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Amazon workers in Staten Island have gathered enough employee signatures to hold a union vote, the NLRB says

[JoeP]

oh noes - Kam has Kam on ignore!

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Oh get stuffed. VM likely started this thrad for that very thing.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Even when you have a union:

how many people out here just finding out that they arent https://t.co/KUahi4tINl

— girls 2 (@jazzcatte) February 12, 2022

[viscousmemories]

That is nuckin futs. I had no idea.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Critical support for Microsoft Outlook™ pic.twitter.com/Rbp8hGfIZG

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) February 22, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

whenever biden enters chaos mode there's a 50% chance he says something significantly better than the position of the rest of the democratic party and his handlers have to come out and say "uh, he doesn't mean it" https://t.co/OfhK5vBcCr

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

https://t.co/egF2yM3qlc

— molly ✨ (@DoSomeMolly) May 11, 2022

[viscousmemories]

For anyone who hasn't been paying attention, there are now SIXTY unionized Starbucks locations across the country, the NLRB has filed extensive charges against Starbucks for union-busting, there is an active Teamsters campaign to publicize the horrendous conditions for workers at Amy's Kitchen (which has a strong chance, imo, of leading to unionization), and Congressional staffers just won the right to unionize. That's just off the top of my head, but the moral of the story seems to be that unionization is rising in popularity in this country and it's about damn time.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by viscousmemories

the moral of the story seems to be that unionization is rising in popularity in this country and the billionaires will step up the process of killing it

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Get crap service? Don’t rage at the staff! Be a Constructive Karen!

Hand the staff information about local unions and how to organize.

[Crumb]

Is that to get them fired when their boss finds it?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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What happens, happens. And a number of those Starbucks and Amazon organizers got creatively dismissed too.

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I might be a bit manic.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

I might be a bit manic.

[JoeP]

[viscousmemories]

Now 135+ unionized Starbucks locations.

Starbucks Workers United

[Stephen Maturin]

I see that today is the 75th anniversary of Harry Truman vetoing the odious mound of shit known as the Taft-Hartley Act.

With the labor movement at the height of its power in the mid-1940s, wingnuts in Congress introduced one union-restricting bill after another. The final result was Taft-Hartley, which did away with highly effective tactics like wildcat strikes, secondary picketing, mass boycotts, closed shops, and union donations to political campaigns. It also authorized states to enact the Orwellianly-titled "right-to-work" laws.

Unfortunately, Truman's veto didn't hold up. Within a week both houses of Congress voted to override. Taft-Hartley thus became the law and American labor never really recovered.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Ontario: BACK TO WORK, SLAVES!

Union: I’ll look down and whisper, “no”’

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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[Ensign Steve]

The Biden Express is up and running. pic.twitter.com/Xni8LwdnyF

— President Biden (@POTUS) December 17, 2022

[JoeP]

Wot.

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Wot.

Is that a question?

Uncle Joe did a really mean strike-break thing to the railroad workers right before Christmas, and then posted that super tone-deaf tweet.

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[JoeP]

It probably was a question, but it was weeks ago, you can't expect me to remember what I may have been thinking.

[viscousmemories]

President Biden made history today as the first sitting President to join union workers on a picket line. He joined UAW President Shawn Fain and a group of strikers today at the Willow Run plant a couple miles from my house.