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Trump’s Cuts Hobbled US Labor Board, Leaving Festering Disputes and a Power Struggle

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/business/labor-law-nlrb-trump.html

The Washington headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board, which is down to a single member. In the interim, California and New York want to strengthen their boards.

June 2011

Columbia University, Manhattan, NYC

#iphoneography #iphonephotography #columbia #columbiauniversity #rat #rats #InflatableAnimal #inflatablerat #protest #union #strike #organizedlabor #ivyleague #nyc #nycphotography #newyorkcity #newyorkcityphotography

Two giant inflatable rats with red eyes, symbols of striking workers, sit across from Columbia University’s main campus. Regal statues face off against the rats as students calmly walk by ignoring both.

And on Friday morning we got the not-unexpected news: 98% of our members voted to ratify this contract!

Democratic unions, run by and for the members, are unstoppable. We will analyze our just-concluded action, learn from our mistakes, but mostly we will celebrate our win!!

And after a short break to rest & recharge, we'll get back to organizing our co-workers.

#DemocraticUnion #UPTE #UC #OrganizedLabor

Jim Farley, #Ford #CEO, spit fantasy BS into Mike Rowe's ear and Mike Rowe laundered that BS into unquestioned truth.

Anti-worker rhetoric was transmuted into pallettable gruel in real time using Mike Rowe as a filter medium.

The #media, and it's lapdogs like Rowe, are used in this way every single day.Let's break this down.

#organizedLabor #unionStrong #solidarity #workingClass #MikeRowe #MediaLiteracy #labor #worker #BlueCollar

https://youtu.be/T4deNceBnz4?si=nOd_4H-a0JUTbPBZ

VICTORY!!! My coworkers and I in UPTE took on the University of California to fight for our patients, students, & research. Early this morning, our bargaining team announced they had reached a Tentative Agreement with the UC. Details unknown at this time, but it's no coincidence that this was announced shortly before UPTE, AFSCME, & CNA unions went out on the largest strike in UC's history.

https://upte.org/

#UnionStrong #OrganizedLabor #UC #uptecwa9119 #AFSCME #CNA

Federal Union’s Demand to End Shutdown Fails to Sway Democrats

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/afge-federal-workers-union-shutdown.html

Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, at the Capitol on Tuesday.

AFGE, Top Federal Workers’ Union, Sides With Republicans on Shutdown

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/politics/afge-federal-workers-union-government-shutdown.html

“Both political parties have made their point, and still there is no clear end in sight,” Everett Kelley, A.F.G.E.’s president, said in the statement, adding that “it’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today.”

This article argues that U.S. labor unions, which paradoxically have very high public approval and very slow growth (they are effectively shrinking as a % of the labor force), need to start operating as if:

1) the National Labor Relations Board does not exist
and
2) the Democratic Party is not worth donating money to.

https://jacobin.com/2025/09/labor-movement-crisis-pr-strategy

#uspol #unions #labor #organizedlabor #democrats #nlrb #wagneract #jacobin

This could go BOOM. The CEO of Market Basket has been fired by the company board, a.k.a. his sisters. This also happened 11 years ago.

(Market Basket is a regional supermarket chain that inspires unusual devotion in eastern #Massachusetts and #NewHampshire.)

Will the workers and customers flex their muscle again? The first "Battle of Market Basket" took place in 2014 ...
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#MarketBasket #labor #organizedlabor #boycott #boston #merrimackvalley

headline "Market Basket board fires CEO Arthur T. Demoulas after unsuccessful meditation"

#TransitSystems #OrganizedLabor London Tube Strike Takes Effect, Causing Travel Chaos http://is.gd/UOQgpy

No strike in sight as Columbus teachers vote Thursday - Alissa Widman Neese

EDIT: the strike and boycott ended, for now, on Sunday July 27. Negotiations have resumed. Stay tuned for updates.

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Fenway Park concession workers are ON #STRIKE and on the picket line as of noon Friday! The strike is against Aramark corporation, not the #RedSox.

The union has called for a #BOYCOTT of all food and drink purchases in Fenway Park during the strike, which will continue for at least this weekend's series against the #Dodgers unless they can settle with the company.

{EDIT: added a pic of non-scabby snacks that fans enjoyed during the boycott}

Support our neighbors in UNITE-HERE Local 26, who worked without a contract for over six months! ✊🏼 Enough is enough. Remember, fans can always bring in outside food, and usually you can get in with sealed bottles of water.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/strike-fenway-park-concession-workers-165350281.html

#boston #bostonma #massachusetts #fenwaypark #mlb #baseball #strike #onstrike #labor #organizedlabor #unions #unionstrong #livingwage #solidarity

sealed bag labeled "Local 26, UNITE-HERE, Fenway pays workers PEANUTS"

“On the 4th of July, when reference is made to the capitalist flag that symbolizes the triumph of capitalism only, thousands… will applaud their own degradation. What is wanted is not a reform of the capitalist system, but its entire abolition.”

📰 Full speech: https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july

#IndependenceDay #July4th #FourthOfJuly #capitalism #socialism #labor #EugeneDebs #OrganizedLabor

Eugene Debs'’s Independence Day Address. On July 4, 1901, socialist luminary and labor agitator Eugene V. Debs proclaimed in a fiery speech: "l like the Fourth of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution.”

Trump Policies Draw Outrage at May Day Protests Across the U.S.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/may-day-trump-protests.html

A political argument among people that identify with Democrats, Republicancs, and Trumpists got me thinking about these old PR images: anti-tax and pro-gun activities, the oligs used to accuse unions and regulators as threatening systemic destruction. The captive audience, a tied-up worker under a top-hat owner brings to mind the Starbucks CEO and Bezos at WaPo. The big union services guy reminds me of Noami Klein's worker-run factor in Argentina.

@bsmall2@mstdn.jp @bsmall2@writing.exchange
#SellingFreeEnterprise #ElizabethFonesWorth #OrganizedLabor #AFLCIO #ForcedListening

Collage of 3 digital camera photos showing the cover for Elizabeth Fones-Wolf's _Selling Free Enterprise_ beside two 1950 PR images and their captions found inside the book. One PR black and white photo shows a Quaker Oats event to get people to write anti-tax letters to their representatives. The other photo is a rifle event for chidren. Olin Industries would saw the barrels of their Winchester rifles so the little kids could shoot too.

This digital camera photo of a book page shows the top part of a Republic Steel flier that was part of "The Advertising Council's economic education campaign, begun in late 1948, [which] emphasized that the solution to America's economic problems was not radical change but expanded productivity through mechanization and increased efficiency. Reprinted from Time, Jan. 3 1949; courtesy of LTV Corporation."
The image shows 3 men with axes working over a piano.

The cartoon in this cropped digital photo of a book page shows an injured worker tied down to a chair with 7 coils of rope that cover most of his torso. Other coils fasten each of his hands to the chair's arms. The fat man with the big open mouth wears a top hat and suite and holds reads from papers labeled 'poison'. Angry tophat man is shouting into a funnel with the wide entrance at his mouth while the narrow exit is placed in the worker's left ear. The right ear is taped shut.. Behind the tophat is the name Allis Chalmers. The caption is
"In this cartoon, the UAW lampoons Allis-Chalmers' mandatory economic eduation program. Allis-Chalmers' workers filed grievances, complaining that "forced listening" was a violation of their rights. Reprinted fomr United Automobile Worker, Jan. 1950; courtesy of the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.

This digital camera photo (cropped) of a book page shows a large worker in an AFL-CIO cap holding a "Community Services Activities" sign and looking down and behind bemused at a fat, suited man in a top hat with the sign "anti-labor progaganda". The cartoon's title is "Big Man -- Little Man!". The captions is:
Organized labor's community service activities served as an antidote to business propaganda. Reprinted from AFL-CIO News; courtesty of the George Meaney Memorial Archives.

> ..post-World War II years in the United States were marked by.. business community's efforts to discredit New Deal liberalism and undermine.. organized labor. In Selling Free Enterprise, #ElizabethFonesWolf describes how conservative business leaders strove to reorient workers away from.. #OrganizedLabor and government, teaching that prosperity could be achieved through reliance on individual initiative, increased productivity, and.. #PersonaLliberty.
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p064395
#PersLib #uspol

In deep-red Hardin County, Kentucky, workers are trying to unionize a new electric vehicle battery plant. If Donald Trump scraps the IRA, it may cost thousands of his supporters safe, well-paying jobs.

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/kentucky-evs-trump-ira-uaw

#news #USnews #labor #OrganizedLabor #unions #manufacturing #ElectricVehicles #UAW #IRA #Kentucky

Like your coffee union strong? So do I! ☕ 💪

Sign the @SBWorkersUnited pledge to show @Starbucks that not bargaining higher wages and better benefits for union baristas is bad for business! Pledge now: bit.ly/4hiUGmp #NoContractNoCoffee

#Starbucks #StarbucksWorkersUnited #OrganizedLabor #UnionStrong

#Business groups sue over #California's new statewide #ban on businesses forcing #workers to attend "captive audience" workplace meetings, generally to propagandize and defeat any #organizedlabor #unionization efforts

https://www.yahoo.com/news/business-groups-sue-over-californias-015238268.html

#OrganizedLabor

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