#picketlines — Public Fediverse posts
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Art for the picket line - Union workshop https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2024/11/art-for-the-picket-line-at-uvws-workshop/
Paris 68 Redux
https://www.bodypolitic.space/paris68reduxElla Jones
https://www.ellajonesstudio.co.uk/#art #illustration #labormovement #picketlines #posters #solidarity
#strikes #unions #UVW -
Last year, 84 #Amazon workers from #Palmdale became the first group of Amazon #deliverydrivers in the country to #organize a #union.
A worker movement began shortly after and over 50 Amazon warehouses across 10 states extended #picketlines in #solidarity with the Amazon Teamsters from Palmdale.
Because of the courageous organizing of these Amazon Teamster drivers, the trillion-dollar company now has a legal duty to recognize and bargain with the Teamsters Union. -
'No #Contract, No #Coffee': #Starbucks Workers Hold Largest #Strike in Company History
Workers participating in the "#RedCup Rebellion" told Motherboard that all they were asking was that the company come to the table with them.
Workers from hundreds of stores refused to come to work, instead holding #picketlines demanding Starbucks bargain with their #union, #StarbucksWorkersUnited. Since first store #unionized, #NLRB has tallied ballots in 454 elections, 369 successful.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkavg7/starbucks-union-protest-red-cup-day -
Wrote this nearly 2.5 months ago.
Maybe now we are ready to read it.
#PicketLines #SAGAFTRAstrike #StrikeFunds
#ClassDivide #labor #MutualAid #SAGAFTRAstrong
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— United Auto Workers are on strike against the Big Three automakers. Workers contracts expired at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, and the strike began at ...
It's a historic moment, as this is the first time in the history of the United Auto Workers (UAW) it has struck all three of the nation's unionized automakers at the same time.#FOX17 #FOX17News #GM #GVSU #GeneralMotors #GrandValleyStateUniversity #LaurenKummer #WXMI #businessasusual #picketlines
Business as usual at Wyoming General Motors plant amid strike, but could see ripple effect -
— United Auto Workers are on strike against the Big Three automakers. Workers contracts expired at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, and the strike began at ...
It's a historic moment, as this is the first time in the history of the United Auto Workers (UAW) it has struck all three of the nation's unionized automakers at the same time.#FOX17 #FOX17News #GM #GVSU #GeneralMotors #GrandValleyStateUniversity #LaurenKummer #WXMI #businessasusual #picketlines
Business as usual at Wyoming General Motors plant amid strike, but could see ripple effect -
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She's also waging war on #RoboScabbing: app employment "platforms" like #Instawork that recruit workers to cross #PicketLines, under threat of being blocked from the app and blackballed by hundreds of local employers:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork
With #Cemex, Abruzzo is restoring a century-old labor principle that has been gathering dust for generations: the idea that workers have the right to organize #WorkplaceDemocracies without fear of retaliation, harassment, or reprisals.
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One of the many #picketlines outside the #BBC today against cuts in local radio - here #journalists of #BBCRadioLondon & #BBCLondonNews and their supporters outside New Broadcasting House #NBH. The strike is over BBC plans to replace many Local Radio shows with national or regional shows instead.
The BBC says it’s to divert more funding into digital.
#NUJ - the journalists' trade #union ,- says it will diminish local radio. -
While I'm sure no-one here thinks the #strikers are rabble-rousing anti-social lefties seeking to disrupt our wonderful system, it nevertheless is worth reading these first-hand accounts of the desperate circumstances that have driven people onto the #picketlines
#SupportTheStrikes
#SupportOurNurses
#SupportourTeachers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/why-we-strike-workers-reasons-joining-picket-line-britains-new-winter-discontent