Labor Unions

France Strike Update: “Prepare The General Strike!”

December 23, 2019 Staff, Socialistorganizer.org Resist! Class Struggle, France, Labor Unions, Strikes

More than a daily newspaper, Le Monde is an institution of the Fifth Republic. In this capacity, the paper is always on the look-out for the slightest signal that indicates the re-establishing of capitalism’s “order”…in other words, an end to the strike action. So it was delighted to feature this headline today, 20 December: “Pensions reform: the government causes a crack in the trade union front before Christmas”.

Workers Protest Their Union From Below

December 9, 2019 Alice Herman, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Class Struggle, Corruption, Labor Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

Every day, Nikki Sampson drives from her home in Portage to Madison, where she works as a dispatcher for the city’s bus service. To get there, she drives along a 40-mile stretch of highway, which crosses the Wisconsin River twice and then slices south through farms and municipalities. That road lies at the heart of the region represented by Sampson’s 4,256-strong union—Teamsters Local 695. Sampson has worked for Metro transit for over 20 years, and says that as a younger employee there...

UPSers Elect Vote No Activists To Lead Philadelphia Local 623

November 6, 2019 Staff, Tdu.org Organize! Class Struggle, Labor Unions, Philadelphia, Workers Rights and Jobs

Teamsters in Philadelphia Local 623 have overwhelmingly elected Richard Hooker and the #623LivesMatter slate. In a four-way race, Hooker beat the incumbent 547-346. That's a 61% to 39% margin. “Today, the members won an election. Tomorrow, we start building a stronger, better union together,” Hooker said. Local 623 has 4,000 members. The overwhelming majority work at UPS. Hooker didn’t start getting active at election time. He’s been organizing non-stop for years.

The PSC-CUNY Contract—The Case For Voting NO

November 5, 2019 By Charlie Post, Portside.org Organize! Class Struggle, Higher Education, Labor Unions, Strikes

This is one of two contrasting viewpoints posted to Portside Labor today about the PSC (AFT) tentative agreement with CUNY, covering 30,000 faculty (including 12,000 adjuncts), professional and graduate employees. Over the past year and a half, the US has seen a revival of the strike. While increasingly drawing in workers across the public and private sectors, educational workers have been at the center of the new strike wave. Starting with the illegal and unofficial West Virginia public school teachers’ strike in February 2018, education workers in both K-12 and higher education have withdrawn their labor and forced bureaucrats and politicians across the US to raise wages...

GM Workers Ratify Contract Though ‘Mixed At Best’

November 1, 2019 By Chris Brooks and Jane Slaughter, Labornotes.org Resist! Class Struggle, General Motors, Labor Unions, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

The Auto Workers' strike against General Motors came to a close this weekend after six weeks on the picket lines, with workers voting to ratify a contract that was clearly unloved but accepted with a yes vote of 57 percent. “I don't think we'll get any more out of it,” said Nelson Worley, who will have 42 years with GM in March. Although he called the proposed deal “mixed at best,” he planned to vote yes, worried about “public perception,” that others would see GM workers as “a bunch of whiners.”

Chicago Teachers Union Attempting To Ram Through Tentative Agreement Over Widespread Opposition

November 1, 2019 Kristina Betinis, Wsws.org Resist! Chicago, Chicago Teachers Union, Class Struggle, Labor Unions, Strikes, Teachers

On Wednesday night, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) House of Delegates approved a tentative agreement that betrays all the aspirations of the 24,000 teachers who have been on strike for ten days. At an evening meeting of the delegates, comprised of teachers from each of the city’s schools, CTU leaders rammed through a deal that teachers did not have time to read or discuss. The CTU called the meeting at 6:00 pm to review the 41-page agreement and hold two votes, one to accept or reject the agreement and one to continue or end the strike and return to work Thursday.

“We Can’t Remain Indifferent”: Chile Trade Unions Call For General Strike In Support Of Student-Led Uprising

October 22, 2019 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Resist! General Strike, Labor Unions, Students, Uprising

As protests against the Chilean government continued Monday, trade unions across the South American country called for a general strike to support demonstrators drawing attention to the nation's high cost of living, inequality, and injustice. "We can't remain indifferent to the social movement out there," Escondida Union No. 1 president Patricio Tapia, whose organization voted to stop work at the Escondida copper mine for 10 hours Monday night or Tuesday morning, told Bloomberg Monday.

Chicago Teachers Vote By Wide Margin To Move Toward Strike

October 2, 2019 By Yana Kunichoff, Chalkbeat.org Resist! Chicago, Chicago Teachers Union, Class Struggle, Labor Unions, Strikes, Teachers

Chicago teachers, clinicians and paraprofessional union members voted by a wide margin to authorize a strike, setting the stage for a walkout less than six months into Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s term. Educators could walk out as early as Oct. 7. The union said 94% of its members voted in favor of a walkout. With ballots in from 90% of schools late Thursday night, the vote meets the 75% threshold of support from all active union members required by state law. “This is a clear signal from the members of the Chicago Teachers Union that we need the mayor and the Board of Education to address critical needs across our schools,” said union President Jesse Sharkey.

GM Backs Down On Cutting Off Healthcare For Its Striking Workers

September 28, 2019 Patrick George, Jalopnik.com Resist! Class Struggle, General Motors, Health Care, Labor Unions, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

Last week GM shocked the United Auto Workers and outside observers alike by ending healthcare coverage for striking employees, shifting the costs to the union’s strike fund. That move by GM was anticipated, just not so early on, and as you might guess it looked gross for lots of reasons, including GM’s handsome profits at present and healthy executive pay. But after criticism from the public and lawmakers, and after realizing it probably won’t be the workers who back down this time, GM has opted to reinstate healthcare for those on strike. “This is truly an attempt to do what’s right for our employees,” spokesman Dan Flores told The Detroit Free Press.

The Strike Against General Motors Is One Front in a Much Larger Class War

September 21, 2019 By Sean Crawford and Maximillian Alvarez, In These Times Resist! Labor Unions, Strikes, Worker Rights and Jobs

The largest strike against GM in over a decade reveals something that everyone sitting at the bargaining table in Detroit knows and fears: The divide between the UAW leadership and the rank and file has never been wider. Much of this has to do with revelations from an FBI corruption probe implicating former and current union officials in alleged misdeeds, including rampantly misappropriating union funds and abusing the trust of their members. With news that even current UAW President Gary Jones is being investigated for corruption, anger and frustration among workers is palpable. And their feelings towards GM executives aren’t any rosier. Workers have watched GM haul in major profits after having been bailed out by the public (to the tune of $11.2 billion) during the Great Recession—and kept afloat by the sacrifices its own employees agreed to make. Among those sacrifices was the introduction of a tiered wage system, which allowed GM to bring in more low-wage and temporary workers to do the same jobs for a lot less money. An ostensibly temporary fix that GM has more or less made permanent, this tiered system sows divisions on the shop floor, and UAW members want it gone.

“This Is Overdue”: Interview With A Striking GM Worker

September 21, 2019 By Marianne Garneau, Organizing Work Resist! Labor Unions, Strikes, Worker Rights and Jobs

In the 13 years I’ve worked there, we’ve seen a lot. Our contracts have not been the greatest. They’ve played around with our health care so many times. Our pay is lower compared to the rest of GM because we are a components plant. [UAW Vice President] Cindy Estrada has always said, “To remain competitive, we have to keep our wages lower than the vehicle makers, because other component plants want to steal our business.” That’s how the union put it to us. Our wages are not a living wage. They’re below or at the poverty line. But it’s just enough that we don’t qualify for assistance. When I was an elected official (a shop steward), during all the bankruptcies, I was representing a girl who was being discharged because of being tardy because of childcare. We weren’t making a whole lot, and childcare is very expensive. And you know how it is if you’re a parent: sometimes things don’t go as you think they are going to go.

Unions: We Must Back The Climate Strike!

September 19, 2019 By Rosa Pavanelli, Commondreams.org Resist! Class Struggle, Climate Change, Labor Unions, Workers

In 1968, workers around the world joined students in taking to the streets to challenge injustice and the complacency of the political establishment. Now, once again, students are leading the way—this time to prevent climate disaster. They ask adults—and unions—to support them. We must respond by showing that the labour movement is willing to stand for broader interests and support popular movements for change. The fight for climate action is a fight to put people and planet over profit.

The Future Of U.S. Jobs Looks Bleak. Unions Are the Answer.

September 7, 2019 Heidi Shierholz, Inthesetimes.com Educate! Labor Unions, New Economy, Workers Rights and Jobs

We were just handed a wake-up call. Newly released numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics project that six of the ten occupations expected to have the most total job growth over the next decade pay less than $27,000 a year. Three of those six are low-paying jobs in the restaurant industry. Even more striking is the concentration of low-paid healthcare jobs at the top of the list, with personal care aides at number one and home health aides at number four. These jobs are disproportionately held by women and by people of color.

A Year Of Organizing Freelance Journalists

September 4, 2019 Staff, Organizing.work Organize! Class Struggle, Journalism, Labor Unions, Workers

In March of 2019, the Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union unintentionally went public. Having recently settled on a formal name for the organization, committee members were attempting to subtly stake out corresponding web assets, but the IWW FJU’s Twitter account — the social media platform most popular with journalists — immediately exploded. Within 24 hours, the union had received more than a hundred requests from freelancers looking to learn more. The IWW FJU was officially on the map.

Democracy Needs Unions

August 30, 2019 By Christine Owens, Otherwords.org Educate! Democracy, Labor Unions, New Economy, Workers

You deserve to have a say in matters that affect you. Everyone does. That’s democracy. This shouldn’t change when you go to work. Democratic rights in the workplace — including the right to form a union, and the power to speak up about workplace issues — go hand in hand with a democratic society. But for decades now, those rights have been under assault. This Labor Day, it’s time we fight to restore them. Make no mistake: By whittling away at workers’ right to a voice at work, right-wing corporate activists have also been able to curtail workers’ voices at the ballot box, too.

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