Strike over as Woolworths workers accept new offer from supermarket giant
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/woolworths-industrial-action-victoria/104697608

Strikes work.
Industrial action works.
Unions work for the workers.
Woolies is no friend of workers.
The Fair Work Commission is not fair.

The United Workers Union got Woolies management to finally agree not to punish workers for their speed of work, and to give workers a boost in wages.

The "framework" that Woolies was trying to foist on its warehouse workers would have required warehouse staff to achieve a 100% performance and speed.

The union called it "dangerous, inhumane and unsafe". I consider it unrealistic for humans, dangerous for robots, and certain to cause injuries to anyone nearby in a short time. Think about it for a moment you'll see it was absolutely bonkers and whoever proposed it should be sacked for posing such a dire OH&S risk.

This debacle has shown that the Fair Work Commission is not fair and impartial.
Furthermore, Woolies has blown millions of dollars to show everyone they're no friend of workers.

I urge you to continue your boycott of Woolies, and start campaigning to have the Governor General clear-out LNP stooges from the FWC.

#AusPol #BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #UnitedWorkersUnion #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline #FairWorkCommission

Woolworths wins Fair Work Commission bid against United Workers Union
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-06/woolworths-lawyer-accuses-union-of-metaphorical-gun/104692632

This is grim news for Woolies workers.

And, it sets a bad precedent. Other large retailers with distribution centres around Australia will be looking at this news and thinking they can screw their workers the same way and not face a picket-line outside their warehouses.

It's also worth noting that the Fair Work Commission has been stacked by LNP cronies over the last few years when the LNP were in government and had power over appointments. I'm sure many people at the Fair Work Commission try to be impartial, but it shouldn't come as a surprise when they sometimes make decisions that favour big business. The LNP has a long history of undermining "independent umpires" -- workers at Woolies and the United Workers Union are not on a level playing field.

The good news is that the United Workers Union is likely lodge an appeal, so they're still in with a fight.

My personal boycott of Woolies remains in place -- my partner & I are instead shopping at other supermarkets and local grocers, and we're thinking of making the boycott permanent. I suggest you show solidarity with the workers and boycott Woolies.

#AusPol #BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #UnitedWorkersUnion #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline #FairWorkCommission

'We're deeply sorry': Woolworths CEO lies to customers about bare shelves as she vows to screw-over workers
(fixed the headline for you)
https://www.9news.com.au/national/woolworths-strike-ceo-amanda-bardwell-doesnt-know-when-shelves-will-be-restocked/ef4bdd69-fe1d-42be-8729-cf82bc69be2b

Woolworths CEO Amanda Bardwell could end the strike any time she wants. She could get the workers back to work and have supermarket shelves restocked quickly. Instead, she's choosing to prolong the industrial action, further emperil negotiations with workers, and inconvenience customers across Victoria, NSW, and the ACT.

#BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline

Woolworths says ongoing strike has already cost it $50 million in lost food sales
https://www.9news.com.au/national/woolworths-strike-grocery-giant-lodges-application-to-stop-union-workers-blocking-access-to-distribution-centres/ca95e872-3808-4e6b-ad1a-f3f7fd135fb1

Suck shit, Woolies — you should have negotiated in good faith with the unions and offered your workers reasonable pay and conditions.

Can you imagine how much better the outcome would have been for everyone if Woolies had put that $50 Million into workers' pay-packets instead of attempting to break the strike with scab labour?

#BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline

Woolworths uses scab labour in distribution centre amid ongoing strike
(fixed the headline for you)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/01/woolworths-to-reopen-distribution-centre-to-get-essential-items-on-shelves-amid-ongoing-strike

Boycott Woolies!

Woolies has resorted to bringing in scab labour rather than talk to workers who are asking for better pay & conditions, and job security.

#BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline

@tim

Stop #strikebreaking #scab labour

#Woolworths Melbourne South Regional Distribution Centre

2 Portlink Drive in #Dandenong South

#Picket line 4.30am 2nd of December 2024

access Portlink drive via the Western Port Highway (there's no access via Taylor's Road)

One day longer, one day stronger.
The workers' united, will never be defeated.

Media
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-02/woolworths-picket-line-dandenong/104671212

#Dandenong #woolworths #labormovementn#warehouseworkers #organize #picketline #Strike #UWU

GOP/Trump strike breaking rats using all their brain genius powers to union bust. Pathetic.
#StrikeBreaking #Rats #AntiLabor #Republicans
https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-auto-workers-strike-gop-republicans-china-electric-vehicles

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/scabs-deployed-gm-parts-distribution-centers

#GM hires #temps for $14 to try to keep plants running

In #2019, #picketers able to prevent #scabs from entering for a while, until company called in #police. After 2019 #strike, workers spent months fixing #QualityControl issues. “We were fixing parts over six months because they f***ed up everything they touched.”

#union #unions #strikes #UAWOnStrike #UAW #capitalism #StrikeBreaking #UnionBusting #Exploitation #ClassWar

.> The Mohawk Valley formula is a plan for strikebreaking purportedly written by the prxesident of the Remington Rand company James Rand, Jr. around the time of the Remington Rand strike at Ilion, New York in 1936/37.

.> The plan includes discrediting union leaders, frightening the public with the threat of violence, using local police and vigilantes to intimidate strikers, forming associations of "loyal employees" to influence public debate, fortifying workplaces, employing large numbers of replacement workers, and threatening to close the plant if work is not resumed...

.> #NoamChomsky has described the formula as the result of business owners' trend away from violent strikebreaking to a "scientific" approach based on #propaganda. An essential feature of this approach is the identification of the management's interests with "Americanism," while labor activism is portrayed as the work of #UnAmerican outsiders. Workers are thus persuaded to turn against the activists and toward management to demonstrate their patriotism.

... the founder of the modern field of communications.. #HaroldLaswell.. explained.. in the early 1930’s that [the privileged] should not succumb to.. democratic dogmatisms about men being the best judges of their own interests, because they’re not.. propaganda is to a #democracy what the bludgeon is to a #TotalitarianState and that’s wise and good because again the common interests elude the bewildered herd, they cant figure them out. The #PublicRelations industry not only took this ideology on very explicitly but also acted on it, that’s a huge industry, spending hundreds of..by now probably on the order of a billion dollars a year on it or something and its committment all along was to controlling the public mind...

In the 1930’s big problems arose again as they had during the first world war. there was huge depression, there was substantial labor organizing, in fact in 1935 labor won its first major legislative victory, namely the right to organize with the wagner act, and that raised two serious problems for one thing democracy was misfunctioning the bewildered herd was actually winning legislative victories and it’s not supposed to work that way, the other problem was it was becoming possible for people to organize and people have to be atomized and separated and alone.

... the business community which spends lots and lots of money and attention and thought into how to deal with these problems through the public relations industry and other organizations like the National Association of Manufacturers and the Business Roundtable these days and so on. They set to work immediately to try to find a way to counter these democratic deviations, the first major effort, the first trial was a year later. In 1936 there was a major strike, the #BethlehemSteelStrike out in Western Pennsylvania, Johnstown, the mohawk valley and business tried out a new technique of destruction of labor which worked, worked very well, it was through propaganda.

Not through goon squads,breaking knees and all that kind of business which wasn’t working very well anymore but through the more subtle and effective means of #propaganda. The idea was to figure out ways to turn the public against the strikers, to present the strikers as disruptive, harmful to the public, against the common interests and the common interests are those of US, the businessman, the worker, the housewife and so on, that’s all US, and we want to be just together, we want to have things like #harmony, and Americanism and working together and so on and then theres those bad strikers out there who are kind of disruptive and causing trouble and breaking harmony and violating #Americanism...

.. the #BusinessCommunity.. control the media and have massive resources.. And it worked very effectively.. it was later called the #MohawkValleyFormula applied over and over again to break.. strike[s] and.. called scientific methods of strike breaking

Yo Joe, now do the lack of #rail #safety and why #StrikeBreaking only makes it worse.

#JoeBiden wasting time speaking on #SpyBalloons shouldn't be top #news while #Ohio is being #gassed by #NorfolkSouthern.

At #Montefiore #Hospital in the #Bronx, resident #doctors are working to #unionize while our #nurses are on #strike over patient safety.

#MontefioreHospital #ResidentDoctors #union #UnionBusting #StrikeBreaking #Capitalism #medialiteracy

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/108gxcl/iama_resident_physician_at_montefiore_hospital_in/

"Their service now takes many different forms, the common factor being committed service to the ruling class, at the expense of everyday people"

#Pinkertons #PinkertonNationalDetectiveAgency #PinkertonSpyAgency #AlanPinkerton #strikebreaking #unionbusting #USLaborMovement #USLabor #LaborHistory #Labour

#TheNib

https://thenib.com/never-sleep/

"I can hire one half of the #WorkingClass to kill the other half."

Why are we #fighting who we're fighting? Who benefits from stoking #conflict among us? Who put our #enemies in our way?

#NoWarButClassWar #propaganda #media #MassMedia #MediaLiteracy #disinformation #influence #capitalism #RiotPolice #StrikeBreaking #PartyPolitics

It's pretty sad seeing federal legislators trying to launder their involvement in breaking the rail strike. I mean, the best we can hope for is they didn't really get they were breaking a strike at the time? I kinda hope so, because if it was conscious then that's really bleak.

#RewritingHistory #RailStrike #RailroadStrike #Politics #StrikeBreaking #Bleak

Strike-breaking 101, always blame somebody worse than you for your own malfeasance

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Reporter: 'How soon should rail workers expect sick days?'

Pres. Biden: 'As soon as I can convince Republicans to see the light.'

- from Now This News

#StrikeBreaking #RailStrike #RailroadStrike

> There was an immediate backlash, even by the late 1930s.. management initiated.. scientific methods of #StrikeBreaking.. Some of them are called the #MohawkValleyFormula.. The idea is to saturate the town with propaganda whose basic theme is Americanism: We’re all Americans, we all work together, we all love each other. We’re all helping the #FriendlyBoss who works to the bone eighty hours a day for the service of the workers..
https://chomsky.info/2013____/
#NoamChomsky #Chomsky #Musk #Starbucks