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bugboy-behaviour · 3 months

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BOYCOTT TRADER JOE'S

Currently, Trader Joe's is teaming up with Amazon and Elon Musk to attack workers rights and Unions. We have to show them that this is not acceptable.

PLEASE reblog to spread the word

if someone could add a transcript/captions it would be greatly appreciated!!!

#trader joes #boycotts #boycott #boycott trader joes #trader joes boycott #politics #workers rights #unions #eat the rich #political #american politics #american workers #rich people #elon musk #amazon #workers union #unionize #unionise #boycotts work

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winke77e · 7 months

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Hey American Workers,

The United Auto Workers Union is asking for other Unions to schedule their contracts to end around May Day (May 1st) 2028 so we can ALL STRIKE together and finally force this Economy/Government to work for the workers!

Make note, make plans

#Unions #strike #Americans #american workers

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sarasa-cat · 11 months

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I’ve banged this gong while saying the following since I was a young’un in the 90s:

If you are in the US and collecting a paycheck you need to unionize.

I don’t care if you think you are above it bc you have an advanced degree. You need a union to represent you and bargain for you.

I don’t care if you think you are $Special bc you work in tech. You absolutely need a union bc your corporate overlords are exploitive and you need a union to represent your collective needs and bargain for all of you for a more secure future.

I don’t care what ignorant excuse you give me.

You need to protect yourself. Collectively.

Unionize.

You will see improvements. You will see benefits.

Do it now. Organize. Unionize.

#pro labor #labor unions #american workers #American professionals #do it #unionize

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claudia1829things · 1 year

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YouTube - “Why Corporate America Hates Unions”

Here is an interesting video from the YouTube channel, Second Thought about corporate America and unions:

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#YouTube #second thought #capitalism #unions #union busting #u.s. labor #american workers #corporate america

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defensenow · 15 days

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surveycrest · 26 days

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Reflecting On The State Of American Workers

This Labor Day, let's take a moment to reflect on the state of American workers in 2024. From gender disparities in business leadership to racial disparities in wealth and stock ownership, the landscape of work and labor in the United States is multifaceted and complex.

According to recent data, over 80% of small businesses in the U.S. are operated solely by their owners, highlighting the entrepreneurial spirit and resilience of individuals navigating the business landscape. However, gender and racial disparities persist, with women and minorities facing barriers to leadership positions and equitable access to wealth-building opportunities.

Black workers, in particular, continue to experience challenges in the labor force, including higher rates of unemployment and discrimination. Despite efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, many Black workers feel that their race still poses obstacles to success.

Moreover, public opinion on issues such as taxes and union membership reflects ongoing debates about economic fairness and workers' rights. As we celebrate Labor Day, let's reaffirm our commitment to addressing these disparities and creating a more equitable and inclusive labor environment for all Americans.

#Labor Day #American Workers #labordayweekend #weekend #laborday2024

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charts-for-the-apocalypse · 1 month

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There's a reason greed is an original sin. Because unchecked greed comes at the cost of everything and everyone else around.

#economy #capitalism #data is beautiful #late stage capitalism #American workers #American family #no children #greed #sin #people die in the margins

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speak-on-it · 7 months

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Thinking about the automation of mundane tasks.

Allowing machines to take over more basic tasks could mean allowing people to live their lives and pursue other careers or interests.

Instead of this, we have people losing their jobs in an environment that brutalizes those who don't have resources.

Automation of mundane tasks could mean expanding our collective focus or allowing us to focus on ourselves and relationships. I'm not advocating for abolishing work all-together. Careers can be incredibly fulfilling and there are many organizations that push for environmentalism and accessibility to resources or focus on medical advances. The possibilities are limitless.

But, work culture in America is unhealthy and parasitic, and our infrastructure and systems do not work to support the people.

#current events #automation #america #societal issues #unemployment #corporations can suck my ass #let us live #american workers #american work culture #Late-stage capitalism

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headlinehorizon · 9 months

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Unveiling the True Meaning of Labor Day: Celebrating the Backbone of America

Discover the rich history and significance of Labor Day, a holiday that recognizes the contributions of American workers. Uncover the surprising lack of knowledge among young Americans and embrace the essence of this cherished tradition.

#Labor Day #American workers #holiday #headline horizon #news #latest news

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chimaeraonwards · 10 months

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no ai generated content will ever compare to the absolutely cartoonishly evil plot to cut down trees to prevent workers from striking to get livable wage.

#tree law #sag strike #wga strike #also also it can be hard to admit but the US does set some industry standards so although im on the other side of the world its concerning!!#if bigwigs at US companies are screwing out their own workers what would this mean for those producing content in other countries?#what about our own local production companies that model american production houses?#oh we cant pay you a living wage cause thats industry standard. dont believe me? here is what a writer at X USA company at X TV show earns #also if you “cant afford” to pay your creatives a living wage then maybe you shouldnt be in charge #so yeah #i think this whole strike thing will affect more than just the US #just fucking pay your creatives

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troythecatfish · 2 months

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nesyanast · 7 months

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On November 23, 1909, more than twenty thousand Jewish Yiddish-speaking immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven-week general strike in New York’s shirtwaist industry. Dubbed the Uprising of the 20,000, it was the largest strike by women to date in American history. The young strikers’ courage, tenacity, and solidarity forced the predominantly male leadership in the “needle trades” and the American Federation of Labor to revise their entrenched prejudices against organizing women. The strikers won only a portion of their demands, but the uprising sparked five years of revolt that transformed the garment industry into one of the best-organized trades in the United States.

#jumblr #jewish #jews #judaism #nesyapost #jewish history #jewish reading #yiddish #Jewish women #American history #women's history #workers history #proletariat #1909 #nyc #workers strike

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shu-of-the-wind · 9 months

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okay because i am DEATHLY curious about this, please select from the options below. reblog with your country of origin as well please.

ETA BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GETTING SNARKY: i am asking it this specific way with these specific poll options (american vs non-american) because it's my understanding and experience that most US state public schools actively suppress any teaching of labor history in any concrete way to the point of editing textbooks. i'm not trying to be an american exclusionist here or say that there weren't non-american labor movements. i'm saying that as a historian with degrees i have noticed that there is a very different attitude towards teaching labor history in the united states than there is in other countries. for fuck's sake.

#DEEPLY curious about this #labor history #history #poll #because i feel like a lot of americans don't actually realize that public schools (and private schools) teach JACK SHIT about labor history #the number of people i have met who have no idea what the battle of blair mountain is #anyway #shut up alix no one cares #labor rights #workers rights #sometimes alix goes viral

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defensenow · 1 month

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reasonsforhope · 8 months

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"Hot Labor Summer just became a scorcher.

[On August 25, 2023], the National Labor Relations Board released its most important ruling in many decades. In a party-line decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the Board ruled that when a majority of a company’s employees file union affiliation cards, the employer can either voluntarily recognize their union or, if not, ask the Board to run a union recognition election. If, in the run-up to or during that election, the employer commits an unfair labor practice, such as illegally firing pro-union workers (which has become routine in nearly every such election over the past 40 years, as the penalties have been negligible), the Board will order the employer to recognize the union and enter forthwith [a.k.a. immediately] into bargaining.

The Cemex decision was preceded by another, one day earlier, in which the Board, also along party lines, set out rules for representation elections which required them to be held promptly after the Board had been asked to conduct them, curtailing employers’ ability to delay them, often indefinitely.

Taken together, this one-two punch effectively makes union organizing possible again, after decades in which unpunished employer illegality was the most decisive factor in reducing the nation’s rate of private-sector unionization from roughly 35 percent to the bare 6 percent at which it stands today...

“This is a sea change, a home run for workers,” said Brian Petruska, an attorney for the Laborers Union who authored a 2017 law review article on how to effectively restore to workers their right to collective bargaining enshrined in the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, which was all but nullified by the act’s weakening over the past half-century. Taken together, Petruska added, last week’s decisions recreate “a system with no tolerance for employers’ coercion of their employees” when their employees seek their legal right to collective bargaining...

Since the days of Lyndon Johnson, every time that the Democrats have controlled the White House and both houses of Congress, they’ve tried to put some teeth back into the steadily more toothless NLRA. But they’ve never managed to muster the 60 votes needed to get those measures through the Senate. The Cemex ruling actually goes beyond much of what was proposed in those never-enacted bills."

-via The American Prospect, August 28, 2023

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Note: I didn't include it because the paragraphs about it went super into the weeds, but the reason all of this is happening is because of the NRLB's general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, who was appointed by Biden. In fact, according to this article, this "secures Abruzzo’s place as the most important public official to secure American workers’ rights since New York Sen. Robert Wagner, who authored the NLRA in 1935." Voting matters

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hussyknee · 10 months

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Another thread by Senator Ben Ray Luján here.

A book on the subject (haven't read it myself):

One of the sources in another one of Alisa's furiously impassioned twitter threads have been debunked, so I didn't include that. But she claims that her own family was caught in the fallout zone when her mother was a baby, which eventually led to her and large numbers of her community developing cancer. It's human for that kind of grief to be caught up in inaccuracies. People are already being ghastly and racist to Hispanos and Indigenous people criticizing the hype for the movie. They're not attacking Oppenheimer for being Jewish, they're criticising the erasure of the human cost of these bombs and the continued valorisation of the U.S military's actions in World War II as some kind of moral saviourism.

While Oppenheimer himself believed that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were morally justified (they had planned to drop them on Germany except they surrendered before they could), he also felt had blood on his hands and regretted his role as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". He spent the rest of his career vehemently opposing further development of thermonuclear weapons and the hydrogen bomb accurately predicting the concept of mutually assured destruction. This eventually made him a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red Scare and his clearance was revoked. I haven't seen the movie (Christopher Nolan is the kind of casual white racist I avoid on principle) but people who have seen it say that it doesn't glorify nuclear weapons and depicts the man himself with the complex moral nuance that seems to be accurately reflective of his real life.

The backlash to Indigenous and Hispanos people's criticisms and to people pointing out that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were genocides is also frustrating because...both world wars were a clash of genocidal empires. The reason they were world wars is because the countries colonized by Japan, China, the European powers and the US were all dragged into it, whether they wanted to or not. Jews were one of the many colonized peoples that suffered in that time, who were left to die by everyone until they could be used to frame the Allied powers as moral saviours, establishing a revisionist nostalgia for heroism that powers the US military industrial complex to this day.

As early as May 1942, and again in June, the BBC reported the mass murder of Polish Jews by the Nazis. Although both US President, Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, warned the Germans that they would be held to account after the war, privately they agreed to prioritise and to turn their attention and efforts to winning the war. Therefore, all pleas to the Allies to destroy the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ignored. The Allies argued that not only would such an operation shift the focus away from winning the war, but it could provoke even worse treatment of the Jews. In June 1944 the Americans had aerial photographs of the Auschwitz complex. The Allies bombed a nearby factory in August, but the gas chambers, crematoria and train tracks used to transport Jewish civilians to their deaths were not targeted.

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Uncritical consumption of World War II media is the reinforcement of imperialist propaganda, more so when one group of colonized people is used to silence other colonized peoples. Pitting white Jewry against BIPOC is to do the work of white supremacy for imperialist colonizers, and victimizes Jews of colour twice over.

Edit: friends, there's been some doubt cast on the veracity of Alisa's claims. The human cost to the Hispanos population caught downwind of the nuclear tests is very real, as was land seizure without adequate compensation. However, there's no record I can yet find about Los Alamos killing livestock and Hispanos being forced to work for Los Alamos without PPE. There is a separate issue about human testing in the development of said PPE that's not covered here. I'm turning off reblogs until I can find out more. Meanwhile, here's another more legitimate article you can boost instead:

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