Boston School Bus Drivers

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6 days ago

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New Details Emerge About U.S.-Backed Bombing of Schoolchildren in Yemen

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In Yemen, new details are emerging about the U.S.-backed Saudi-led bombing massacre of school children in Yemen’s northern Saada province Thursday. The United Nations says the airstrike hit a bus ca...

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7 days ago

Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
For the union makes us strong.
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Striking sheet metal workers want bigger piece of the building boom - The Boston Globe

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After making concessions during the recession, Local 17 members look to share in the wealth

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1 week ago

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2 weeks ago

Monica Moorehead, July 30:

>The struggle between National Football League players and billionaire owners continues to dominate sports and political headlines on social issues. The NFL Players Association, the union representing the players in a league that is at least 70 percent Black, filed a grievance on July 10 in response to a policy passed on May 23 by 31 of 32 owners.

>The owners’ policy stated that players could be fined for kneeling during the playing of the national anthem during the 2018-19 season. Only Jed York, owner of the San Francisco 49ers, abstained from voting.

>The bosses’ action is not an unprecedented one. In January 1934, the fascist Nazi government banned its football club from playing against a French team when the club refused to give the Nazi salute before a game.

>A July 10 press release from the NFLPA stated: “Our union filed its non-injury grievance today on behalf of all players challenging the NFL’s recently imposed anthem policy. The union’s claim is that this new policy, imposed by the NFL’s governing body without consultation with the NFLPA, is inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement and infringes on player rights.” (www.nflpa.com)

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NFL players force bosses to put anthem policy on hold

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3 weeks ago

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Big win for University of Michigan teachers

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Detroit — After nine months of tough negotiations, nontenured lecturing instructors at the University of Michigan’s three campuses have won an agreement that provides substantial pay increases, im...

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3 weeks ago

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National Grid lockout causing headaches for customers - The Boston Globe

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A month after the utility company locked out 1,250 workers over a contract dispute, residents in need of gas work are experiencing significant delays.

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

3 weeks ago

>As [director Boots] Riley recently told Democracy Now:
I believe that since the beginning of the New Left, progressives and radicals have turned more to spectacle and gone away from actually organizing at the actual point of contradiction in capitalism, which is the exploitation of labor, which is also where the working class has its power. And we’ve gone in favor of demonstrations, that don’t necessarily have teeth, but they show where our head is at. And I feel like we have to put—give these demonstrations more teeth, by being able to affect the bottom line and say, you know—and say, “You can make no money today, or you can make less money and give us what we want.”

>United Electrical Workers (UE) review below:
The surreal film techniques and science-fiction elements of Sorry To Bother You make it a different kind of labor film than, say, Norma Rae — but in many ways it is more of a labor film. Instead of using collective workplace struggle as the setting for an individual story, it uses an individual story to explain the necessity of collective workplace struggle, and of finding individual meaning in being part of a larger struggle. Every union member should see this film.

>RegalView workers' picket line chant in the film:
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A Labor Film for the Near-Future

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Rarely these days is a union organizing campaign and strike central to the plot of a movie, especially one that isn't set in the past. Rarer still is a movie that is firmly on the side of workers and ...

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Team Solidarity getting ready to demonstrate our Solidarity in Action with Locked Out USW workers @ National Greed! Say NO to Union busting! Contract Justice now! Join us 4pm City Hall, March to State House. When we fight, we Win! ... See MoreSee Less

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Solidarity with United Steelworkers @ National Greed! End the criminal Lock Out NOW! Say NO to Union Busting! Contract Justice NOW! When we Fight, We Win! ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

AMAZON PRIME DAY RUNS INTO SNAGS SWIFTLY
Boston Globe, July 17, 2018

>Meanwhile, Amazon workers, who have long gone on strike in the run-up to the holidays, have found a new occasion to get their employer’s attention: Prime Day.

>Nearly 1,800 Amazon workers in Spain went on strike Monday. Thousands more Amazon employees in Poland and Germany are expected to walk off the job on Tuesday, the second day of the 36-hour sale, for similar reasons. The unions that represent the warehouse workers, Comisiones Obreras and Verdi services union, say they are calling for better working conditions, pay, and health benefits.

>‘‘The message is clear — while the online giant gets rich, it is saving money on the health of its workers,’’ Stefanie Nutzenberger, a spokeswoman for Verdi, which represents German workers, said in a statement on its website.

>This week’s labor protests underscore a growing challenge for Amazon: It is facing increased scrutiny over its hiring and labor practices at a time when it’s looking to add thousands of new warehouse workers and growing at breakneck speed.

>In the United States, advocacy groups are planning a series of consumer rallies outside of Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market locations to protest the sale of Nazi, confederate, and white nationalist merchandise sold through Amazon’s marketplace of third-party sellers. There have also been widespread calls on social media for shoppers to boycott Amazon during Prime Day, which this year began Monday afternoon and continues through Tuesday.

>Amazon and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, have a long history of thwarting unionization efforts in the United States. (Bezos also owns The Washington Post, where last week unionized employees approved a new contract with the company after 14 months of tense negotiations.)

>On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Bezos is now the richest person in modern history...

AMAZON PRIME DAY RUNS INTO SNAGS SWIFTLY - Boston Globe

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1 month ago

Solidarity with Amazon workers around the world!
Victory to the strike at amazon.es!

"The strike will take place at the San Fernando warehouse on the outskirts of Madrid, Amazon's biggest in Spain, on July 16, 17 and 18, to coincide with a 1-1/2 day sale on the platform."

"Douglas Harper, a representative of the Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) union told Reuters the union primarily objected to wage cuts, working conditions and restrictions on time off."

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Spanish Amazon workers call three-day strike over wages, rights

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Spanish labor unions have called on around 1,000 Amazon employees to walk out for three days next week in a dispute over what it says are efforts to reduce workers' rights.

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1 month ago

The corporate executives of National Grid should be arrested and jailed for attempted murder of the locked out workers and gross negligent endangerment of our communities.

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Locked out National Grid workers grapple with loss of income, health insurance - The Boston Globe

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As the lockout at National Grid stretches into its third week, 1,250 out-of-work gas employees around the state are grappling with the loss of income and health insurance following the utility company...

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

2 months ago

Twenty fired doctors, nurses and therapists marched into the Whittier Street Health Center on June 20 to reclaim their jobs and join their co-workers in an historic “Union Yes” vote. Outside the clinic in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, a militant crowd cheered to show union, community and patient support.

With that vote, WSHC became the first community health center in New England where the professional staff is union strong. It was a stunning defeat of union busting and a historic victory against an orchestrated corporate attack on community health workers.
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Boston workers say, ‘Health care is a human right’

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2 months ago

Not a death sentence for labor!

>An immediate response to the Janus ruling came from the United Electrical workers union: “Public workers will continue to organize and defend our rights to decent living and work standards despite court decisions and laws forbidding ‘fair share’ fees.”

>The UE statement continued: “Vocal and militant actions by UE public-sector members and locals around the ‘right to work’ South show the possibilities available to public workers to continue to defend and improve their working lives.” (ueunion.org) Numerous other union statements are echoing this optimism.

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Janus decision and labor’s fightback

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2 months ago

Solidarity with locked out Steelworkers! Contract Justice, Now!

Stop illegal, dangerous scab replacements at NationalGrid, Now!
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National Grid locks out gas workers - The Boston Globe

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A contract dispute came to a head early Monday morning when workers were denied access to various National Grid facilities across the state.

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