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thatrandomblogsays · 8 months

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I’m so happy for them

[Image Description: Castiel from Supernatural is saying I love you, underneath is an image of Dean Winchester with the caption: “After four months of striking the WGA has a reached a tentative agreement & finalizing the contract. If all goes well writers will get to return to work with better pay and protections. They did it. Go unions”]

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bunnyscribe · 7 months

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Hello Tumblr!

Do you like bookstores? Do you like unions? Do you like bookstores having unions?

Answer yes to any of those questions, and boy howdy, do I have a call to action for you.

Half Price Books employees at several locations across the country have organized and, after months of being dehumanized by corporate lawyers, have finally reached the financial part of their contract! Hurray!

Except not hurray, because they are refusing to even budge on giving anything more than a pathetic 1% increase. And what’s worse, is the offer is actually a thinly veiled 6-7% pay cut, due to taking away quarterly bonuses that make up so much of the employees’ income.

There’s thankfully something you can do about it though! The unionized workers are partnered with UFCW, and they have made a website that has made it super easy to tell Half Price Books that you think their employees deserve a living wage.

The company has proven that it cares a great deal about its image, so any public support can give the bargaining employees a lot more power over their contracts. It only takes a couple minutes to fill out and any and all help is greatly appreciated.

#labor unions #booklr #books #union solidarity #support unions #union #literature #book recs #half price books

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girlwithsword · 10 months

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Stock up on podcasts, movies you meant to watch, shows you missed; be ready and okay to not have new content for awhile, the strikes will delay your shows, movies you’re hoping for and more - I don’t want complaints aimed at anyone but the companies and execs that aren’t paying their artists!!

#sag aftra strike #wga strike #labor rights #worker’s rights #support unions

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momareedoula · 2 years

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My mission statement still holds true today!!

#hypnobirthing #birth #childbirtheducation #birth doula #childbirthclass #pregnancy #healthy pregnancy #childbirth #doula #childbirth education #childbirthchoices #childbirthyourway #informedpregnancy #safer birthing #labor #labor support

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acid-smoke · 8 months

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I am suddenly okay-ish with living in historic times

#pro union #support unions #labor unions #uaw #uaw strike #pay your fucking employees

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eunnieboo · 1 year

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IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING!! ✨

hi everyone, i’m so excited to share the cover and release date for If You’ll Have Me!

IYHM is my debut graphic novel, a YA sapphic romcom about insecurities, growth, and the tender uncertainty of new love. it’s the kind of story i wanted to read in college - something sweet, comforting, and a little silly too. i can’t wait for you to discover who these girls are and what makes them fit together so well ❤️

the book comes out october 17, 2023 and you can preorder it right now!!

#if you'll have me #momo gardner #priscilla giang #graphic novel #wlw #art #thank you so much everyone #this was truly a labor of love and im so anxious and excited to see it go out into the world #i think some links have yet to go live but i can personally vouch for bookshop and indiebound! support your local bookstore if you can~

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quhere · 10 months

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….idk sometimes I wanna travel back in time to 2013 and grab myself and shake her like: in just ten years, after the plague has wreacked havoc, the Bad Guys ™ will try to use developments in artificial intelligence to threaten the world’s creatives into economic submission

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jodipickens · 10 months

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We under value and take for granted artists as a society. I’m talking all artists…writers, actors, musicians, dancers, designers, painters, sculptors…the list is endless.

The commonality is that they all have either spent their time honing their skills through practice, lessons, education or all of the above. Artists dedicate their time and often their lives to their craft.

We are failing our artists. Symphony orchestras are failing across the US. Writers and actors are on strike. People involved in the fine arts are turning to independent sales. We need to shift our expectations.

We need creatives as a part of our society. What we don’t need is the expectation that artists should work for free or for a paltry income. Simply because an artist enjoys performing or creating doesn’t mean they should have to do so for nothing.

We also no longer live in an era where it is standard that the extremely wealthy build museums or libraries or fund performing arts groups. We live in an era of amassing extreme wealth for the minority of the population.

I get that profitability is important, but at what cost? Are we ok that artists can’t afford health insurance? Are we ok that artists are leaving our communities for other opportunities? Are we ok that companies are ready to use AI over humans for creative processes and performance?

I’m not ready for any of this. We will lose a significant part of our humanity by eliminating and discouraging the ability to thrive for artists. Change can be hard but change is what is needed.

We are experiencing the beginning of a labor revolution and it will not stop with our writers, actors, UPS drivers or Starbucks baristas. The peasants are fed up and the nobility needs to pay attention.

Support your local artists. Support independent artists. Support the striking unions and organizations. We can all play a part in creating a long lasting effective change.

#WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrong #Unionstrong #BeLoud

#sag aftra strong #wga strike #support wga #support sag aftra #labor unions #support unions #labor organizing #labor movement #artistsupport #support the arts #union strong #labor strike

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isawthismeme · 4 days

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iww-gnv · 9 months

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Labor unions successfully organized more than 58,000 workers through the National Labor Relations Board’s election process in the first six months of 2023, a massive influx of workers on a scale that we’ve rarely seen before—but that we’re likely to see again. The 662 NLRB representation elections won by unions in the year’s first half covered a total of 58,543 workers, according to Bloomberg Law’s just-released NLRB Election Statistics report. That’s the second-highest first-half organizing total in this century. By itself, this statistic isn’t the surest measurement of labor strength; all it takes is one freakishly large election result to make a six-month period appear a lot more impressive than it really was. (This is exactly what happened in May 2013: A bargaining unit of nearly 45,000 already-unionized workers switched representation from one union to another through the NLRB election process, raising the midyear total to 67,687.) No such anomaly is present in 2023. The sheer number of union wins so far this year, surpassing even last year’s Starbucks-studded total, makes it plain that this current wave of organized workers is no fluke.

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#news #us news #hot labor summer #hot strike summer #labor unions #labor organizing #union strong #support unions #solidarity forever

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where-is-tosh · 7 months

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Solar eclipse

#witch hat atelier #wha #orufrey #qifrey #olruggio #i officially credit Dominic for inspiration and support during the labor #And OFCOURSE shirahama for wha and that one dreamy frame with qifrey beautifully floating through the space like a god of slaying

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lowrezbonuslevel · 3 months

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he keeps pictures of his minions in his wallet

i don't go here but i am his target audience

#hazbin hotel #hazbin spoilers #hazbin hotel spoilers #lrblev art #sketch #sir pentious #no way he went to heaven!!! he supports child labor and a 14 hour workday

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socialjusticeinamerica · 16 days

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#labor unions #organized labor #collective bargaining #volkswagen #UAW #united auto workers #republicans bust unions #democrats support unions #unions built this country #worker protections stem from organized labor fighting and shedding blood

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nottawriter · 10 months

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Samuel L. Jackson said tax billionaires... From an interview with Vulture by Bilge Ebiri

https://www.vulture.com/article/samuel-l-jackson-in-conversation.html

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goblincow · 1 year

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The first ever AMAZON STRIKE in the UK is one week away - and they need your support!

Respectfully asking if I can get a bunch of notes on this so I can show my phone when I go to the rally and let them see how much support they have! ✊

And here are the Amazon strike fund details to donate if you're able:

Name - GMB Midland & East Coast

Bank - Unity Trust

Sort Code - 60-83-01

A/c No - 33010410

Ref - Amazon

I'm pretty sure I know how this works:

Like to charge, reblog to cast!

Update:

Thanks everyone who has responded to show your support, here's a link to an interview with one of the GMB union officials earlier this morning after Amazon workers walked out at 00:00.

I will update again later today when I visit the picket, but as this is doing numbers here's a link to the official donation page: stick it to Amazon and show your support for the workers! Solidarity ✊

Update 2:

Some great fighting talk from union speakers willing to take on Amazon.

Strikers told me that amazon managers and bosses have been intimidating staff & taking advantage of the fact that many workers are on zero hour contracts & many are immigrants and they speak a lot of different languages, so they've been lining the hallways to watch them as they leave shifts and lying about the union by saying the union is threatening people and beating them up, all to pressure them to stay silent and be too afraid to communicate so they don't go on strike with their colleagues. But they wont win - the strike was national news, from Philip Schofield talking about Jeff Bezos only offering a 50p raise from his billions on This Morning to major news coverage throughout the day. At one point we were live on Channel 4!

I told workers and union officials that over a thousand people from tumblr who are mostly queer/trans/nonbinary/otherwise lgbtq+ wanted them to know that they support the Amazon strikers.

One striker seemed surprised by this and I got to talk to him about how lgbtq+ people are working class too, how lgbtq+ rights are working class rights, how none of us are free from exploitation until we all are, so no wonder the gay website supports you, and he seemed to really take that on board.

All the workers were grateful for everyone who showed up and thank you all for your support - this is just the start.

Fuck Jeff Bezos

#amazon strikes #amazon uk #amazon #strike solidarity #amazon union #gmb union #amazon labor union #labor unions #support the strikes #fuck jeff bezos

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 3 months

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If you’ve ever gone to protest a Republican event you can see them passing out signs to the actors they hired from Craigslist. You can also see them changing hats and t-shirts and then parading in front of their hired Nazi videographers who will later edit it into a propaganda video. The high point comes when their provacateurs deliberately fire up non-white counter protesters and then portray them as violent radicals in their edited video clips.

#republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #trump #Trump propaganda #Trump fake union rally #labor unions support democrats #ACAB police unions support trump

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