Sunforged
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- Comment on Workers at Mack Trucks reject tentative contract deal and will go on strike early Monday 1 year ago:
If you want some reporting on the labor movement that isn’t anti-labor check out On Strike!, they have new episodes every Thursday.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
I’ve e explained the problems ad nauseum in this thread.
- Layoffs happening during this partial strike.
- Demoralization of members due to confusion and a broken front.
- Public concerns over stretching out the strike fund when in truth it’s the strongest in the nation. Which leads many uniformed in the labor movement to question the power of a strike.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
You asked for the math. I provided you the numbers, if you don’t trust me go check.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
The difference is that Hollywood was actually at a much weaker position for a number of reasons. The first is that the nature of the business means the production house had many projects in the can, waiting to release. This meant the impact of the strike could be rode out for longer before releases began being impacted by the strike. In comparison as soon as UAW closes down a shop the big 3 start losing money.
The second is Hollywood was up against wall street, there was a strong interest by investors to break up the strike, not just in Hollywood but in all industries. The reasoning is that labor wins translate to more labor fights, they want to demoralize any attempt to get a fair share and reduce profits. UAW is in a stronger position today than the writers and actors were when they started, so why is Fain pumping the breaks when he could be building more momentum (for both his members and the labor movement at large) with a full strike?
You might disagree but my criticism is a valid one, moral within the union isn’t great and it would be easy to fix by fighting together.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
$825,000,000 in the current strike fund. 400,000 current active members. I’m not sure what the contract length is so let’s say 4 years, that’s a minimun.
825,000,000÷4÷12÷400,000= 42.96 per month to rebuild the fund for the next contract.
That is not to mention the current fight is an existential one for the union. As EV funding coming from the state has all gone to none union shops, it has hurt the unions strength. Part of this current fight is to demand expansion of the union to EV shops, growing that member number and preventing the union from becoming irrelevant.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
I am so confused by this comment. Your talking like we have nothing in history to compare this to when the writers strike won after a 3 month strike just last week.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
Union members are being laid off, leading to confusion and hurting moral. The war of attrition is more than just the strike fund, and it is sad one of the largest and well funded unions is making a show of worrying over their coffers when they have more than enough to win three contract fights.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
My opinion are based on what works for labor rights. A pragmatic “lets not hurt the business” approach hasn’t worked for the past 4 decades.
Having union members continue to work during this partial strike is only giving the big 3 more time to lay off workers. Fain has sold this as a positive, saying those laid off can claim unemployment instead of pulling from the strike fund. There are alot of problems with this, there is little support for laid of members to navigate claiming unemployment, with every state having different requirements it’s left many confused on where they stand with the strike and union. Also UAW has one of the biggest strike coffers in the country, at this time of unprecedented labor support they need to use that and go all out. That’s how the writers guild just got their unprecedented win last week, and most of those writers are still out on the picket lines in solidarity with the SAG, as a united front.
I’ve been hopeful of Fain’s approach but it’s doing more harm than good within the union, when members were ready to stand together they were instead left as confused as the big 3 were, which if you’re just looking at dollars in the bank was a win I guess, but moral is more important. Again they are not hurting in their strike fund, this is not a newly formed union it’s one of the oldest.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
They have enough in their strike fund for an all out strike for 10 months. How long do you think these negotiations should be stretched out?
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
I have been following this strike very closely, I understand the theory behind it. Do you know what is more costly to the big three than forcing a shell game? A full on strike.
Shawn Fain wants to eat the rich? Hit them hard and make them hurt. Three weeks of gamesmanship is enough. You want the big three to play off each other? Full strike until all three come to the same agreement.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
I understand what the goal is and the theory behind it. The thing is the strike fund has enough funds for an all out strike that is 10 months long. That would be billions lost for the big three if they wanted to try to outlast the union, not to mention fund raising the union could do to extend it if needed.
Easing the strike up this week because one came to the table isn’t great. With only 17% striking, that leaves 83% working without a contract, that’s a big problem especially if this approach is going to be a drawn out process.
- Comment on UAW will not expand strikes at Detroit automakers after last-minute GM proposal 1 year ago:
17% of union membership is on strike. They need to go full 100% and show who has the power and stand in solidarity as one.
- Comment on Writers’ Union Wins Historic Concessions — An Example-Setting Strike for the Labor Movement 1 year ago:
Good union representation starts from knowledge of the industry. If you want to work for a union the best thing to do is go get a job in an industry you know and get active in their union.
A union that just hires straight outside hires is going to both be difficult for you to get into a position for making positive change, and will most likely lean more bureaucratic and need change to originate from the rank and file members to begin with.
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- Comment on Actors' Equity Files With NLRB After Broadway League Fails to Recognize Unionized Production Assistants 1 year ago:
Solidarity to Production Assistants! Solidarity to all workers!
- Comment on Unions work. That's why the corporations don't like them. 1 year ago:
And the bosses have no vested interest selling this idea to you. Corporate media has no vested interest feeding this narrative to you. It worker owned co-ops are a thing, and seizure from a corporation can be successful.
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- Comment on Automakers’ Electric Vehicle Lie 1 year ago:
why isn’t their a massive push to get other assembly line workers pay and benefits equal to those of auto? they get all the headlines, money, and support. why is that?
Union members spend time and their own money organizing. When they fight it garners headlines. Those headlines 8ncrease public support because when they win it lifts local economies while increasing other labor fights chance of success.
The industry standards are set by union shops, the pay at other manufacturers would be significantly less if unions hadn’t pushed to get their members good contracts. The massive push you are questioning has to come internally from workers at non-union shops ready to start organizing themselves.
- Comment on The Writers Strike Is Over: WGA Votes to Lift Strike Order After 148 Days 1 year ago:
When we fight we win.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Which is a hole in thier own logic, my point entirely.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I made a single point, that soy conspiracies are racist and dismiss the civilizations that were raised on them. You latched onto one bit in a dismissive (or ignorant) attempt to debate bro with me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Just add what you want to say as if we were having a normal conversation. Do you talk to people you know like this? So fucking exhausting dude.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Except it’s not chance dude. Soy is one of the richest and cheapest sources of protein.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Flawed in that a staple of civilizations diets is somehow comparable to a known intoxicant?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
And it’s effect on the human body is widely known. You’re not making the point you’re trying to.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Humans have been cultivating soybeans for an estimated 9000 years. To think that a food staple in so many cultures worldwide is not healthy is completely xenophobic. Maybe don’t tell him that, but the framing of different cultures might be helpful. If it wasn’t healthy humans wouldn’t have thrived spending resources to grow it.
- Comment on Biden Will Join Autoworkers on Picket Line in Michigan, a Historic Move 1 year ago:
Labor’s power is our ability to withhold our labor. To take away the ability to strike is to take away our power.
Biden’s follow up has gotten plenty of coverage, the media has been falling over itself to sell it as a huge win, when the reality is he got rail worker 4 days sick leave and the ability to turn 2 vacation days into sick leave. Compair that to here in Seattle where anyone working within city limits is getting 12 days off a year and it becomes obvious what bread crumbs Biden actually got them. Not to mention that the administration only started pushing the rail companies in earnest after national pressure was mounting from the disaster in East Palestine.
Could it be people critical of Biden are actually paying closer attention than yourself?
- Comment on Biden Will Join Autoworkers on Picket Line in Michigan, a Historic Move 1 year ago:
UAW has publicly stated they are withholding endorsement of Biden until he supports the UAW’s efforts to unionize electric vehicle facilities. That has yet to happen. Biden has actual influence over the big three that rank and file don’t, standing on the picket line is very performative unless it’s followed up by action.
For all you libs who take this criticism personally, understand that this is a good start. But that’s all it is. Applauding this without critical analysis is how Democrats diffuse political energy without delivering material gains.
- Comment on Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen 1 year ago:
Theory of alienation in action. Only solution is to get involved in the growing labor movement. A big reason my wife is adamant in organizing is setting the example for our kids that you don’t have to just become a doomer and act like there is nothing to be done.
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 1 year ago:
If we look at the history of the labor movement, victories happen when we are organized outside of the two political parties and force their hand. The same thing happened with civil rights and women’s rights. It’s only by taking an antagonistic approach that has both strong demands and sharp criticism of failures that the needle can be moved.
When you make excuses for Democrats and give them cover for their failings, they have no reason to go further next time.
I was a member UFCW 3000 for 7 years in my teens and 20s. My father in-law has been a member of IBEW Local 77 his entire career. My wife and I have been dragging our kids to picket lines for local unions striking since their little legs could march, not because we personally had anything to gain, but as an act of solidarity.
We are on the same side, I don’t understand how you can say in one hand that what I say is truthful and then call me an elitist and swear at me. I am not out here trying to convince anyone to vote for Trump instead, I am just trying to be real about how we, as workers that want to increase labor’s political power, can best accomplish our goals.