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6 days ago

Good Riddance, Scab Anti-Labor Secretary, boot licker of billionaire corporate CEO's, war-profiteers and serial, pedophile rapists and human trafficers.

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Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigns, Trump says - The Boston Globe

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Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is resigning following criticism of his handling of a plea deal with a wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls.

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1 week ago

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As Drivers Live in Their Cars Due to Poverty Wages, Uber Co-Founder Buys Record-Breaking $72.5 Million Mansion

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"This is a perfect example of the one percent stealing from the rest of us."

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1 week ago

>Nelson is an outspoken advocate of using strikes as a weapon for workers to make gains. Some labor officials said she crisscrosses the country giving speeches not just because she feels solidarity with other unions and progressive groups, but because she realizes that many AFL-CIO insiders favor Shuler – and that she needs to generate rank-and-file support for herself.
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AFL-CIO Leadership: The Two Women Vying To Be America's Top Labor Official

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Liz Shuler and Sara Nelson have many things in common – both are from Oregon, both are in their 40s, and both are prominent labor leaders. Shuler is secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, the nation’...

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The strike that brought teachers unions back from the dead

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When these Chicagoans walked off the job in 2012, they changed the future of organizing.

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2 weeks ago

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On the Picket Line: Muslim Jenni-O workers’ walkout

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Muslim Jenni-O workers’ walkout In protest of the boss’s racism and Islamophobia, 35 to 40 Muslim workers at the Jennie-O turkey processing plant in Melrose, Minn., marched into the parking lot in...

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2 weeks ago

>Workers reject profit from detention

>Wayfair employs 14,000 people around the world, with 7,000 in downtown Boston. They sell home goods online — sofas, lamps, rugs and furniture. In 2018, the company made $6.8 billion in profit.

>Within a day of learning of the sale to BCFS, more than 500 Wayfair workers signed a protest letter. The opening reads: “We, the undersigned, are writing to you from a place of concern and anger about the atrocities being committed at our southern border. The U.S. government and its contractors are responsible for the detention and mistreatment of hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking asylum in our country. We want that to end. We also want to be sure Wayfair has no part in enabling, supporting or profiting from this practice.”

>Company executives stated, in a letter signed by co-founders Steve Conine and Niraj Shah, the sale would go through and directed workers toward the elections as a way to make change. Not happy with this answer, the workers held a town hall meeting inside the company June 25 with Conine.

>A.J., a Wayfair employee and walkout organizer, told Workers World: “[I]t was clear that management had no interest in dialogue, contrary to what they previously stated. Steve talked down to us and shamed us for considering a walkout. He refused to budge and committed to going through with the sale, despite the room being so packed by employees demanding an answer that the crowd extended out the doors. It was, at best, a PR move and we all understood that, once the meeting was over.

>“They don’t want the workers to be able to monitor their ethics and cut into their profit. Walking out was the only way we could show management we were committed to preventing Wayfair from doing business with organizations like these in the future.”
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Wayfair workers walk out saying: ‘No profit off concentration camps for migrant children!’

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Over 500 Wayfair workers -- clerical workers, engineers, product managers, visual artists and information technology workers -- walked off their jobs at 1:30 p.m. on June 26 to protest company profits...

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2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

Airline catering workers in Boston and across the country are fighting for one job to be enough. That includes access to affordable healthcare and meaningful raises so we don't have to work two jobs or rely on overtime to survive.

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3 weeks ago

Dangerous Scab drivers, Get The Hell Out of MA, Now!

Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority and Transit Connections, Inc. - Stop Illegal, Unsafe Union-Busting, Now!

Drivers' deserve "Martha's Vineyard" wage increases, full benefits, seniority rights and RESPECT, Now!

Victory to Strike!
Power to The Amalgamated Transit Union!
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Replacement drivers arrive on Martha’s Vineyard amid bus driver strike - The Boston Globe

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Bus drivers with the Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority entered the third day of their strike Sunday as replacement drivers kept operating most of the agency’s routes.

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3 weeks ago

Victory to the Striking Martha’s Vineyard bus drivers!

Tourists and All, Don’t Scab!
Stay off the buses.

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Martha’s Vineyard bus drivers go on strike - The Boston Globe

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Bus drivers on Martha’s Vineyard went on strike Friday morning, less than a week before thousands of visitors will flock to the island to celebrate the Fourth of July.

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3 weeks ago

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Hundreds of Uber Drivers in Toronto Are Joining a Union

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In a growing number of cities where rideshare platforms operate, drivers are fed up with the low pay, long hours, and lack of basic worker protections that shlepping strangers around entails. In the U...

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1 month ago

We are deeply saddened to report that our dear sister and courageous fighter for Justice and Liberation, Lolita Kelsey, passed away on Saturday. We extend our heartfelt condolence to sister Lolita’s family, friends and her social justice family. We will continue her battle. She will remain forever in our hearts. Lolita Kelsey Presente! ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

TODAY IN LABOR HISTORY: On June 11th, 1974 workers at the Dodge Truck plant in Warren, Michigan went out on a wildcat strike.

Workers were fed up with endless attacks from management and disappointing contract negotiations the year before. Wildcat strikes had become almost commonplace in Detroit area auto plants the previous summer.

Arbitrary discipline, deteriorating working conditions and frustration with the union’s response all led to the three-day walkout.

10 days earlier, 100 workers had staged a sick-in over working conditions, when the company threatened firings, more workers dropped their tools.

Now four had been fired, including the second shift chief steward. The response was immediate, within an hour, the plant was virtually shut down. 6000 workers voted to continue the strike. Wildcat leaders noted that virtually all the routine antagonisms among workers, young vs. old, black vs. white, women vs. men, had melted away in solidarity.

Socialist and Anarchist workers in the plant published their recollections in a commemorative pamphlet entitled Wildcat: Dodge Truck, June 1974.

In it they state, “We were excited by the collective decision of thousands of Chrysler employees to deny the authority of daily wage labor and, for even four days, to say no to the demands of the alarm clock, the production line, bosses, union bureaucrats, judges and cops… It was in fact, a total frustration with and rejection of, all the things, inside and outside the plant, which exercise control over our lives.”

By the time it was over, thirty strikers had been arrested, strike leaders were branded as communist agitators by the union, and area judges issued injunctions to end the picketing. The wildcat may have failed but workers had pushed back against management offensives.

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1 month ago

Over 60 union organizers and community members joined dinner-hour picket lines at two Burgerville restaurants here June 6. Picketers blocked both entrances of the Burgerville at the Convention Center and convinced hungry Portlanders to drive away in solidarity with the Burgerville Workers Union. ... See MoreSee Less

Burgerville workers fight for living wage

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1 month ago

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'It's war': World's largest Nutella factory cuts production as workers strike in France

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Production has shut down almost entirely at the France plant which annually produces more than 600,000 jars.

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2 months ago

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Boston Teachers Union secures key resources for student needs in new three-year labor agreement | Boston Teachers Union

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2 months ago

Justice and Union Jobs for all workers at the airport!

Fire FSS and jail the thieving bosses!

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AG: Logan Airport contractor falsified payroll records

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FSS was fined for adding tips to workers’ wages to make it appear they were earning minimum wage, officials said.

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2 months ago

“...If this erupts into the bloodiest, ugliest battle that the United States labor movement ever saw, that’s what’s going to happen. You’re already profitable enough...

If we ever get to a point where there’s self help, we are going to engage in absolutely vicious strike action against American Airlines to the likes of which you’ve never seen... We’re going to shut this place down.”

--TWU Pres Samuelson
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American Airlines Union Threatens "Bloody Battle" | One Mile at a Time

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The head of American's mechanics union is threatening the ugliest battle that the US labor movement has ever seen. Here's what we can expect.

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2 months ago

>“You have on the island of Martha’s Vineyard the most outrageous example of inequality in the United States,” said Bruce Hamilton, an ATU international vice president. “Just unimaginable wealth is down there, and then you have a working class that is just really pressed hard, and they often find it really difficult to maintain shelter and food.”

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Martha’s Vineyard bus drivers threaten strike

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Long-simmering labor dispute heats up as the summer tourist season gets underway.

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2 months ago

Uber Drivers Not Employees - Trump NLRB

The future for Uber drivers won’t be decided by the US government.

Uber and other "gig" workers will decide their own future by struggle, like the historic May 8th strike actions

>More to the point, by far the best advances in working conditions for Uber drivers to date have come not from any sort of national lawsuit or legislation, but from concerted local pressure. In New York City, for instance, the city council last December approved a first-of-its-kind wage floor for ride-hail drivers. The pay rules that took effect in February raised take-home pay for drivers to $17.22 an hour, or the contractor equivalent of the city’s $15-an-hour minimum wage. They are expected to lift average incomes by $10,000, or 44%, for roughly 70,000 professional ride-hail drivers in the city.

>New York City is only one place, but it’s also one of Uber’s biggest markets, meaning these rules are not inconsequential. The company disclosed in a recent IPO filing that the pay rules are already hurting its financial performance. Now that New York has hammered out a framework for bettering the lot of ride-hail drivers, it will also be easier for other cities to follow.

>On the other side of the US, California legislators are working to codify an employment-status test that makes it harder to argue workers are contractors. The so-called ABC test says workers are employees if the company controls what they do, if their jobs are essential to the company’s core business, and if they aren’t really running their own business through that gig. The ABC test could potentially cripple the business model of many gig-economy companies, which depend on large, diffuse networks of contractors to provide services and deliver goods at the touch of a button.

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Uber Drivers Not Employees-NLRB

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TwitterFacebookMail Uber drivers protest their working conditions ahead of the company’s May 10 IPO., Earlier this week, the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released an April 16 memo that s...

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