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Union workers at Fallout and Elder Scrolls company ready to strike against Microsoft after two years of haggling - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/union-workers-at-fallout-and-elder-scrolls-company-ready-to-strike-against-microsoft-after-two-years-of-haggling #unionisation #ZeniMaxMedia #unionization #Microsoft

🚨🚨🚨 Trump put out an executive order (EO) to take away the collective bargaining (union) rights of federal employees today, claiming such rights counter “national security requirements and considerations.”

#USA #USGov #trump #FederalEmployees #CollectiveBargaining #unions #unionization

= The WHITE HOUSE By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 7103(b)(1) of title 5 and 4103(b) of title 22, United States Code, to enhance the national security of the United States, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Determinations. (a) The agencies and agency subdivisions set forth in section 2 of this order are hereby determined to have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work. It is also hereby determined that Chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, cannot be applied to these agencies and agency subdivisions in a manner consistent with national security requirements and considerations. (b) The agency subdivisions set forth in section 3 of this order are hereby determined to have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work. It is also hereby determined that Subchapter X of Chapter 52 of title 22, United States Code, cannot be applied to these subdivisions in a manner consistent with national security requirements and considerations.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/exclusions-from-federal-labor-management-relations-programs/

Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 1626 CST

THE EXPERT EDGE BY ZPONZ: Expert in Unionization
Gregory DeFreitas is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Labor Studies Degree Program at Hofstra. He is also the Director of the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy. Before joining Hofstra's faculty, he taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, the University of Toronto, and Cambridge University.
#ZPONZ #GetPaidForExpertise #MonetizeYourSkills #ZPONZApp #Unionization

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 9: Music and Mobilization https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode9 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.

What role does music play in mobilizing resistance? Do protest songs actually matter? Looking at the example of the role that radio played in facilitating the textile worker strikes of the 1930s, we can learn lessons for today.

#Resist #Resistance #ProtestMusic #Unionization #Strike #TextileMills #Radio

Episode 9: Music and Mobilization

https://peertube.uno/videos/watch/90e39b36-d0c0-427c-96dc-ba0397aa885e

Stripped of #LaborRights

How the iconic #maledancers at #Chippendales won #unionization—and then lost everything.

https://progressive.org/magazine/stripped-of-labor-rights-lieberman-20250304/

with agi employees need incentives and also safety nets - they are working to make the boss instant multi billionaires and making millions unemployable #profit sharing #unionization

Per the article, Trump’s recent firing of National Labor Relations Board (#NLRB) members may not have been conducted legally as specified in The National Labor Relations Act. At least one fired board member is fighting back in court.

#USA #USGov #USGovernment #trump #musk #unions #unionization #CollectiveBargaining

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/business/nlrb-trump-musk-workers/index.html

Former Whole Foods cashier in Hadley, MA and St. Paul, MN here. I'm rooting for Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia today as they vote on #unionization. #solidarityforever

Visiting the Monterey Bay aquarium was the highlight of my vacation to California several years ago. I support the unionization efforts of its employees to ensure that many more visitors have the chance to say the same.

Offer your own words of support here:

https://mbaworkersunited.org/community-letter-support?utm_source=mastodon

#politics #unions #union #unionization #TradeUnion #TradeUnions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions #MontereyBayAquarium #MontereyBay #California #LaborRights #UnionStrong #unionize

"#Amazon closing all #Quebec warehouses, cutting jobs"

"Barbara Agrait, a spokesperson with Amazon, denies that the decision was made following the #unionization of 200 employees last spring at Amazon’s DXT4 warehouse in #Laval, Que."

Yeah right!

You have to #unionize

Amazon's stunt here is a threat to other places thinking of forming a #union. But if enough unionize, the plutocracy has to give in and accept it

That is the only way forward

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/amazon-is-ceasing-operations-in-quebec/

Montreal

News
Amazon closing all Quebec warehouses, cutting jobs
By Rachel Lau
Updated: January 22, 2025 at 2:33PM EST

Published: January 22, 2025 at 9:18AM EST

Amazon's Laval warehouse. (LA PRESSE CANADIENNE/Ryan Remiorz)

Due to circumstances out of my control, Craig was missed for the holidays but he is back.

I am back too! Back at making noise about workers rights in Technology. So a quote from James Connelly:

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times. These are exceptional times.
Workers Republic (socialist newspaper) 4 December, 1915 in “Trust Your Leaders!”

During my absence I have been working on compiling resources for the #unionization of Tech Workers. Maybe if I drop the info I get more voices.

Get Outta Here, It’s the weekend!

- Your Shop Steward
https://mstdn.ca/@CraigWeekend/113846413866806228

🚨 US NLRB rules Google is a “joint employer” of ~50 #AccentureFlex workers who joined the Alphabet Workers Union in 2023. 🤝 Google must now bargain with the union. 🛠️ #UnionStrong #LaborRights #TechNews #WorkersRights #Unionization #GoogleNews #CorporateAccountability

#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

Dartmouth basketball players’ unionization bid was a groundbreaking effort for college athletes. Their strategic withdrawal highlights a systemic issue: an NLRB increasingly aligned with corporate interests, leaving workers vulnerable.

Strengthening Job Security at Karmax Heavy Stamping: The Case for Unifor Unionization https://miltonmarketing.com/news/strengthening-job-security-karmax-unifor-unionization/ #AutoIndustry, #CollectiveBargaining, #EmployeeAdvocacy, #EmployeeRights, #JobSecurity, #KarmaxHeavyStamping, #LaborUnions, #Layoffs, #MagnaInternational, #ManufacturingSector, #TemporaryWorkers, #UNIFOR, #Unionization, #WorkplaceConditions, #WorkplaceFairness

Nurses being squeezed by gig apps
"One group of workers whose rights are being devoured by gig-work apps is nurses, which is bad news, because without nurses, I would be dead by now."
#Capitalism #Unionization #WhatNext
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loose-flapping-ends/

"Kate Wolf speaks with filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing about their new #documentary #Union, which is out in theaters now. It follows, in real time, the forming of the first ever #Amazon union in the country, the #ALU, at the JKF8 plant in Staten Island. Later in the conversation #ChrisSmalls, the president of ALU, joins as well."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/the-fight-to-unionize-amazon/

#AmazonLaborUnion #USLaborMovement #USlabor #TradeUnions #unionization #cinema #CinémaEngagé @film

#TIL American grocery store staples like #LuckyCharms cereal, Triscuits to #Cheetos & #Chewy brand #granola bars were revealed as being made by migrant children working in allegedly unsafe conditions at secretive processing plants in #GrandRapids, #Michigan?

The #PrivateEquity owned mfgr now seeking #Chapter11 bankruptcy protections has been hit with numerous govt probes, ranging from blocking #Unionization efforts to #ADA issues to exploiting #ChildLabor across 28 facilities in multiple states with over 12,000 employees.

A 2023 #NYTimes investigation found factory floors staffed with low wage undocumented staff, including kids and that has led to recent #bankruptcy filing of Hearthside #Food Solutions, a mass market production & packaging firm

"It would be hard to find a cookie or cracker aisle in any leading grocer that does not contain multiple products from #Hearthside production facilities,” said Richard Roscoe, manager of just one of the corp's four plants in the Grand Rapids, Mich area.

Hearthside , whose plants are largely reliant on non union #TempWorkers , has been publicly mentioned as a partner to #GeneralMills and #PepsiCo. In 2014 Hearthside Food Solutions was sold to #GoldmanSachs and 2018, it was announced #HearthsideFood purchased a #Kellogg cereal production plant in Indiana. Mgmt s proud of flaunt titles such as being named to lists of "Fastest Growing Private Companies" and is recipient of multiple innovation awards, and rarely touts or mentions its many labor law violations or legal troubles.

https://www.iheart.com/content/2024-11-25-maker-of-beloved-snacks-files-for-bankruptcy/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/25/downers-grove-based-hearthside-alleged-child-labor-files-for-bankruptcy/

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2020/05/21/memphis-food-packagers-vote-join-ufcw-first-election-since-covid/5205436002/

EEOC alleges Hearthside Food is ducking its investigation into discrimination claims Abby Poirier - Grand Rapids-based Hearthside Food Solutions LLC. A year after garnering headlines that its Kentwood production facility was using illegal child labor, Grand Rapids-based Hearthside Food Solutions again finds itself under scrutiny, this time from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

In a news release, Hearthside, a contract food manufacturer that produces packaged foods such as cookies, crackers and frozen foods for other companies, said the restructuring plan would allow it to shed nearly $2 billion in debt while securing around $200 million in new capital at exit. In bankruptcy filings, the company estimated its assets and liabilities to be between $1 billion and $10 billion. Shortly after the Times published its investigation last year, the Tribune reported the company was under joint investigation by Illinois' labor department and attorney general's office. The labor department would not comment on an ongoing investigation,

@jm101 @rbreich

It's a kick back from way back - the medieval hierarchy is alive and well with Lords, Ladies, Nobles - peasants and serfs.

CEO answers to your question:
'Because that's the way it is.'
'He who has the gold makes the rules.'
'We take care of our own.'
' "We" make those decisions.'

Watch Sly's movie F I.S.T. ... low pay, unfair treatment and abuse lead to #unionization .

Sadly, membership in unions has been falling:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/12/majorities-of-adults-see-decline-of-union-membership-as-bad-for-the-us-and-working-people/
With associated repercussions.

#unionization

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