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| <title>Payday Report – Covering Labor in News Deserts</title> | |
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| <title>RIP Steve Silberman, Who Changed How Autistic Communities are Viewed</title> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we received the sad news that Steve Silberman, the author of the New York Times bestseller NeuroTribes: the Legacy of Autism and the Future...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Yesterday, we received the sad news that Steve Silberman, the author of the New York Times bestseller <em><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310415/neurotribes-by-steve-silberman-foreword-by-oliver-sacks/">NeuroTribes: the Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity</a></em>, died. For more than a decade, I was very lucky to have collaborated and been friends with Steve, who was such an amazing source of inspiration. </p> | |
| <p>Steve’s book <em>NeuroTribes</em>, published in 2016, changed the way that autistics look at our community. Prior to it, we had been taught that autism was a disability, maybe something that autistics like me, who were able to “pass” as neurotypical, would “grow out” of.</p> | |
| <p>Steve, who had come of age as part of the gay rights movement, taught us that autistics live in our own different culture and we shouldn’t focus on “growing out” of autism, but instead on growing our community as autistics.</p> | |
| <p>Harvard professor Ari Ne’eman, who was the first openly autistic person confirmed by the Senate for a cabinet post, wrote passionately about how Steve got so many to think about neurodiversity differently. </p> | |
| <p>“<em>NeuroTribes</em> changed the conversation in such a dramatic way that it no longer feels as revolutionary today as it did when it came out,” wrote Ne’eman of the book. “But as someone who was there at the time, <em>NeuroTribes</em> was a game-changer and one that would not have happened without Steve, who put a tremendous amount of work into its writing (often at the cost of his health and wellbeing). If you first heard the word “neurodiversity” outside the relatively small universe of autistic bloggers, listservs, and social media users, that was in large part the result of his contributions”. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/09/09/493148713/neurotribes-examines-the-history-and-myths-of-the-autism-spectrum">(Check out this great interview by NPR’s Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” done back in 2016). </a></p> | |
| <p>I was very lucky to have collaborated with Steve and had some of my work cited by him. He was a real mensch, a hysterical guy and a big supporter. I can’t tell you how many times I received positive messages from him about articles or just retweets. (Until Steve deleted Twitter in protest of Elon Musk – he was always a principled person).</p> | |
| <p>Steve was like a lighthouse in a storm for so many autistics. A source of comfort, insight, and support in a very overwhelming world for many of us. May Steve’s memory always be a memory to marginalized people everywhere looking to build community.</p> | |
| <p>I’ll miss my friend dearly but he lives on among so many of us in the autistic community.</p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com'donate">Donate to help us continue the fight for neurodiversity</a></p> | |
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| <title>Help Cover Kamala & Biden in Pittsburgh on Labor Day</title> | |
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| <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p><a href="https://www.wtae.com/article/biden-harris-pittsburgh-labor-day/61987360">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have announced that they will be in Pittsburgh on Labor Day to campaign</a>. Payday wants to be there once again to cover this high-profile moment on Labor Day. </p> | |
| <p>Our story on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s last visit to Pittsburgh garnered over 200,000 views and went viral (see our story “<a href="https://paydayreport.com/poll-pa-union-members-flip-for-harris-in-stunning-fashion/">Poll: PA Union Members Flip for Harris in Stunning Fashion”</a>). </p> | |
| <p>This Monday, we plan to be out in the streets talking to rank-and-file workers and union officials. And we plan to spend the election in the battleground states, primarily in the Rust Belt, but we need your support to do it. </p> | |
| <p>Yinz, all know that Payday can make a big impact. Recently, we worked with <a href="https://paydayreport.com/this-american-life-features-payday-report/"><em>This American Life</em>. </a>We have been cited on <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/">the front page of <em>The Washington Post</em>,</a> featured on <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/06/910321514/the-state-of-the-american-worker-during-a-pandemic">NPR’s <em>All Things Considered</em> Labor Day broadcast</a>, and profiled on <a href="https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/story/18399/mike-e-pittsburgh-pa-to-me-work-means/"><em>American Portrait</em></a> on PBS. </p> | |
| <p><em>Esquire</em> described our work as <a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a37869470/iatse-strike-labor-agitation-nationwide/">“invaluable,”</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/business/media/labor-unions-media-coverage.html"><em>The New York Times</em> called us a publication with “new energy,</a>” and last year <a href="https://paydayreport.com/were-nominated-for-an-emmy-for-work-on-cnn-special-where-do-we-even-start-with-white-supremacy/">our work on CNN’s <em>United Shades of America</em> was nominated for an Emmy</a>. </p> | |
| <p>The stories that we develop at Payday have a big impact and get picked up by much larger publications. We need your help to go out and cover how workers (incomplete)</p> | |
| <p>If you want us to visit you or can donate frequent flier miles, let us know [email protected]<br><br><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">Donate to help us cover these battleground states this election.</a> Please,<a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/"> sign up as one of our 773 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
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| <title>With Erie Now 25% Immigrant, Multiracial Coalition Could Flip PA State Senate</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/with-erie-now-25-immigrant-multicultural-coalition-could-flip-pa-state-senate/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:28:46 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA – Jim Wertz was a longtime TV news cameraman and proud CWA member who, a few years ago, never imagined running for office....]]></description> | |
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| <p>ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA – Jim Wertz was a longtime TV news cameraman and proud CWA member who, a few years ago, never imagined running for office.</p> | |
| <p>Then, in 2022, longtime Erie Republican <a href="https://www.eriereader.com/article/the-erie-reader-is-under-attack" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Senator Laughlin sued Wertz and the local alternative monthly, </a><em><a href="https://www.eriereader.com/article/the-erie-reader-is-under-attack" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Erie Reader</a></em><a href="https://www.eriereader.com/article/the-erie-reader-is-under-attack" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">, for $1 million in defamation</a>, a legal defeat that would bankrupt Northwestern Pennsylvania’s last surviving alt-biweekly. </p> | |
| <p>In his article entitled <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eriereader.com/article/erie-at-large-a-congressman-and-a-state-senator-walk-into-a-bar" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Erie at Large: A Congressman and a State Senator Walk Into a Bar,”</a> Wertz wrote that Laughlin signed an amicus brief in <em>Texas vs. Pennsylvania</em>, which sought to invalidate mail-in ballots cast in Pennsylvania; thus, Laughlin supported insurrectionists. He also reported that Laughlin and local Congressman Mike Kelley were on proposed pardon lists in front of Trump’s top circle.</p> | |
| <p>Wertz is currently being defended by the Reporters’ Committee for Press Freedom, which<a target="_blank" href="https://www.eriereader.com/article/the-erie-reader-is-under-attack" rel="noreferrer noopener"> feels confident that Wertz will win in court.</a></p> | |
| <p>“This is protected speech. It’s protected by the First Amendment. And this lawsuit just has no merit,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.yourerie.com/news/local-news/laughlin-wertz-appear-in-court-as-defamation-lawsuit-continues/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Paula Knudsen Burke of the Reporter Committee for Press Freedom told WJET/WFXP earlier this year. </a></p> | |
| <p>The defamation lawsuit intended to intimidate a beloved, small-town reporter seems to have backfired, propelling Wertz into a competitive State Senate race against Laughlin that could decide control of the PA State Senate, which has been in Republican hands since the “GOP Revolution” in 1994.</p> | |
| <p>In recent years, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/04/13/1243882276/boomerang-county-erie-pennsylvania-trump-biden-swing-state">the seat in Erie has flipped back and forth between Obama, Trump, and Biden</a>, so the high profile PA State Senate race will likely be a bellwether of whats happening nationally. Wertz, the veteran newsman, is confident that a coalition between labor, civil rights groups, and immigrants, whose families now make up nearly 25% of Erie’s city population, will be able to carry the day and flip the PA State Senate. </p> | |
| <p>“I think when a lot of people think about, like, you know, we’re gonna compete in Trump country to beat Trump, they don’t think about the immigrant communities,” says 31-year-old Erie City Council President Jasmine Flores as her, Jim, and I grab beers at Erie Labor Council’s Night, an Erie SeaWolves game, a Double-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. </p> | |
| <p>Labor Night at the Ballpark also happened to be Latino Night at the Ballpark, with the Erie SeaWolves donning the bright multicolor uniforms of the Erie Piñata for the Night. The crowds of Latino and labor activists seemed to mingle effortlessly as people talked and drank at the minor league ballpark.</p> | |
| <p>“Things are getting ready to change in this town,” says Wertz shortly after he threw the opening pitch at the ballgame. “I’m pumped up!”</p> | |
| <p>Already, Laughlin, a Republican, is feeling the heat of the multicultural working-class coalition building in Erie. He has gone into damage control, sponsoring a resolution that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour—the first time the state’s $7.25 minimum wage has been raised since 2009.</p> | |
| <p>“Due to the rising costs, workers are unable to pay for basic necessities and forced to rely on public assistance. It is time we address the issue and I believe this bill is the most responsible way to approach it,” said Laughlin when introducing the measure last year. </p> | |
| <p>Wertz thinks it’s unrealistic that Laughlin’s proposal will get anywhere but says Laughlin’s decision shows that he is feeling the pressure brewing from a multiracial coalition in Erie. Laughlin’s seat, a swing district, would be one of three wins Democrats would need to flip control of the PA State Senate and Wertz says Erie activists are fired up for the race. </p> | |
| <p>“There are several pieces of legislation that have been passed by our democratic-led house and have stalled in the Republican-led Senate because they’re quite simply not interested in impacting the lives of working people in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” says Wertz. “We gotta have a chance to make a difference statewide here in Erie and we are gonna try.” </p> | |
| <p><strong>Refugees & Retirees Flocked to Lake Erie While Others Moved Out</strong></p> | |
| <p>Erie is a Rust Belt city of approximately 100,000 that has flipped back and forth between Democrats and Republicans in recent years. In response to the town’s depopulation, which saw it shrink by 25% over three decades, the city began recruiting immigrants, mainly through refugee resettlement programs. </p> | |
| <p>“I would argue that the only reason that Erie remains the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania is because of our new American [immigrant] population,” says Laughlin. “Without that, we would, be around 80,000 people, and instead, we reside just around and probably a little bit over 100,000.” </p> | |
| <p>Watching the rise of Trumpism, 31-year-old Jasmine Flores decided to run for Erie City Council in 2019. She lost by 187 votes in 2019 but decided to run again, winning in 2021. </p> | |
| <p>“I was born and raised here in the city as a Latin person, there’s not much representation. But also, I understand that if I want representation, I’m gonna have to be that representation,” said Flores in an interview at an Erie SeaWolves baseball game on a Latino night when the team switched its jerseys to that of the Erie Piñatas. </p> | |
| <p>The daughter of a Mexican immigrant and Puerto Rican citizen, Jasmine was born in Erie and has a tattoo of the sunset over Lake Erie on her left hand.</p> | |
| <p>“I love it here. It’s beautiful here,” says Flores. “I’m home. This is home. I’m going to stay here.” </p> | |
| <p>In her organizing experiences in Western Pennsylvania, she says a multicultural intersectional approach is critical to building power for workers in Erie. </p> | |
| <p>“It really doesn’t matter who you are if you’re working for the issues that you’re talking about, family, sustainable wages, unions, healthcare, quality education,” says Flores. “Those are all things that Latin communities care about, poor Black communities care about, poor white communities care about them. These are things that will motivate all communities.” </p> | |
| <p>She says that in recent years, many people—both immigrants and native-born residents of Erie—have been getting involved in organizing. </p> | |
| <p>“I think a lot of regular people are getting involved because we’re tired of how bad our community is doing. We’re tired of how everything is deteriorating around us,” says Flores. “We want to see this city grow because we love Erie.” </p> | |
| <p><strong>A Union Cameraman Explaining Racial Divides & Going Viral on TikTok</strong></p> | |
| <p>Jim Wertz said he used his campaign to bridge diverse coalitions in the city. A lifelong union broadcaster, Wertz says that the labor movement in Erie taught him what trade unionism was all about.</p> | |
| <p>A big part of Wertz’s coalition is bringing migrants in Erie—both international and domestic—together. In recent years, the town has seen an influx of refugees and retirees, both groups who seem to love the picturesque shorelines and beaches along Lake Erie. </p> | |
| <p>As a poor college student in 1997, Wertz migrated from Reading to Erie when he got a job as a cameraman at the local NBC affiliate. With the job, he got a union card, dramatically expanding the area where he could work as a cameraman. </p> | |
| <p>“My high school TV teacher had told me, if you want to work in TV, you have to have a union card. But you can’t get a union card until you work in TV. And so that was ingrained in me through my entire (life), this was the amazing opportunity,” says Wertz. “I joined the union for 75 bucks in Erie PA, and had this card in my pocket that was gonna be the gateway to the world. “</p> | |
| <p>Wertz has used his campaign as a platform to unite immigrants and the old-school labor coalition in Erie. He recalls recently campaigning in a suburb of Erie, and an older white resident in his 80s asked him why so many Nepalese immigrants had settled in the neighborhood. </p> | |
| <p>“I had heard it 10 or 12 times before I got to his door. People in that neighborhood were like, ‘Do you know how much real estate here has gone to the Nepalis?'” said Wertz. “And I go, ‘Yeah, I do, and I know exactly why they’re here,’ and so I just went through and answered simply and calmly, answered all his questions, and de-escalated any concern that he had about why all these Nepalis were in his in his neighborhood.” </p> | |
| <p>A video of Jim talking to the older white voter about his new Nepalese neighbors went viral, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@drzeketayler/video/7387352599852371242" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">garnering over 3 million views on TikTok. </a></p> | |
| <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> | |
| <blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@drzeketayler/video/7387352599852371242" data-video-id="7387352599852371242" data-embed-from="oembed" style="max-width:605px; min-width:325px;"> <section> <a target="_blank" title="@drzeketayler" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@drzeketayler?refer=embed">@drzeketayler</a> <p>Jim Wertz performed a master class in combatting misinformation. That’s why I’m putting in the work to help him become a State Senator in Pennsylvania. <a title="pennsylvania" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/pennsylvania?refer=embed">#pennsylvania</a> <a title="fypシ゚viral" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp%E3%82%B7%E3%82%9Aviral?refer=embed">#fypシ゚viral</a> <a title="november" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/november?refer=embed">#november</a> <a title="doctorsoftiktok" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/doctorsoftiktok?refer=embed">#doctorsoftiktok</a> <a title="senate" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/senate?refer=embed">#senate</a> <a title="state" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/state?refer=embed">#state</a> <a title="door" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/door?refer=embed">#door</a> <a title="knock" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/knock?refer=embed">#knock</a> <a title="immigration" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/immigration?refer=embed">#immigration</a> <a title="hardwork" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/hardwork?refer=embed">#hardwork</a> <a title="neighbors" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/neighbors?refer=embed">#neighbors</a> <a title="family" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/family?refer=embed">#family</a> <a title="refugees" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/refugees?refer=embed">#refugees</a> <a title="napoli" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/napoli?refer=embed">#napoli</a> <a title="erie" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/erie?refer=embed">#erie</a> </p> <a target="_blank" title="♬ original sound - DrZekeTayler" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7387352634488785707?refer=embed">♬ original sound – DrZekeTayler</a> </section> </blockquote> <script async src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script> | |
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| <p>Wertz’s campaign could flip control of the PA State Senate for the first time since 1994, but he says he is most focused on seeing Erie becoming a welcoming community for newcomers and longtime residents alike. </p> | |
| <p>“I was on the beach this past weekend with my family, and the beach was full of immigrants and new Americans. And it was, it was exciting,” says Wertz. “It was invigorating.” </p> | |
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| <title>Unionbusters Sue UE Over Ceasefire Advocacy – 4,500 Fred Meyers Workers to Strike – Texas Attorney General Raids Latino Activists Home</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/unionbusters-sue-ue-over-ceasefire-advocacy-4500-fred-meyers-workers-to-strike-texas-attorney-general-raids-latino-activists-home/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:37:32 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where it’s a <a href="https://paydayreport.com/poll-pa-union-members-flip-for-harris-in-stunning-fashion/">Code Orange Air Quality Action Day</a> and I am in a lot of respiratory pain. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">Big thanks to everyone who donated to help pay our $435-a-month healthcare premium. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Kamala & Biden Coming to Pittsburgh on Labor Day </strong></p> | |
| <p>On Monday, <a href="https://www.wtae.com/article/biden-harris-pittsburgh-labor-day/61987360">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have announced that they will be in Pittsburgh on Labor Day to campaign</a>. Payday wants to be there once again to cover this high-profile moment on Labor Day. </p> | |
| <p>Our story on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s last visit to Pittsburgh garnered over 200,000 views and went viral (See our story “<a href="https://paydayreport.com/poll-pa-union-members-flip-for-harris-in-stunning-fashion/">Poll: PA Union Members Flip for Harris in Stunning Fashion”</a>)</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">Donate to help us cover their visit this weekend.</a> Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">sign up as one of our 773 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>4,500 Fred Meyer Workers to Strike in Pacific Northwest</strong></p> | |
| <p>In Oregon, over 4,500 Fred Meyer grocery store workers, members of UFCW local 555, are slated to strike at 28 stores around Portland. The union says that the grocery chain has failed to deliver on legal obligations. </p> | |
| <p>“Our members are united in demanding fair treatment, which can only be reached if Fred Meyer actually stands behind its public statements and is willing to fulfill all their obligations and legal requirements,” the local’s president Dan Clay said in a statement.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://nwlaborpress.org/2024/08/ufcw-555-could-strike-at-fred-meyer-and-now-opposes-the-merger/">For more information on the strike, check out Northwest Labor Press. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Unionbusters Sue UE Over Support for Ceasefire in Gaza</strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier this month, Payday reported on how the Zionist group the Anti-Defamation League had threatened to sue the UAW over its opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza. </p> | |
| <p>Now, groups like the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which had previously expressed no position on Palestine, are suing unions on behalf of Zionist union members. The members are objecting to having to pay union dues to support ceasefire advocacy. </p> | |
| <p>Earlier this year, the anti-union group helped workers sue the United Electrical Workers, the first union in the country to call for a ceasefire, and is seeking to sue more unions. From <em>Inside Higher Ed</em>: </p> | |
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| <p>“In his written request for a religious exemption, Sussman cited his Jewish faith and the UE’s support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. He and other Jewish MIT grad workers who opposed paying dues received free legal representation from a conservative group, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, as they took their complaints to the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.</p> | |
| <p>They’ve now won concessions. The foundation shared with <em>Inside Higher Ed</em> an NLRB settlement agreement from earlier this month that says the MIT union must tell grad workers they can object to paying for the union’s “nonrepresentational activities” and can “obtain a reduction in fees for such nonrepresentational activities.” </p> | |
| <p>That likely means they won’t have to pay for any union activities that protest Israel—but neither UE nor National Right to Work would tell <em>Inside Higher Ed</em> on Monday how much of a savings that would be. The settlement says the union has already reimbursed one grad worker for all dues she paid after the date on which she filed her objection.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/labor-unionization/2024/08/27/should-higher-ed-workers-have-pay-dues-pro-bds">For more, check out <em>Inside Higher Ed</em>.</a></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/happy-fathers-day-to-the-union-dads-like-my-dad/">(Full Disclosure:y father served as the Director of Organization of UE until his retirement in 2021)</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Texas AG Raids Latino Activists’ Homes </strong></p> | |
| <p>Last week, the Texas State Attorney General executed warrants to search the homes of Latino elected officials and activists in three counties in Texas. The right-wing state Attorney General claims that the warrants are being carried out as part of an investigation into voter fraud. </p> | |
| <p>However, Latino activists and elected officials claim that the early morning raids were carried out as part of retaliation for their political activism. </p> | |
| <p>“It was horrible, gestapo-style,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/26/latino-civil-rights-organization-texas-raid-ken-paxton/">Lidia Martinez, an 87-year old retired educator told <em>The Washington Post</em>. “</a>I thought we lived in a free country, not Russia.” </p> | |
| <p>Now, the activists are calling on the US Department of Justice to investigate the raids as part of continuing retaliation against Latino activists by the state of Texas. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/26/latino-civil-rights-organization-texas-raid-ken-paxton/">For more, check out <em>The Washington Post</em>. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Chicago Countertop Maker Fined $1 Million for Giving Workers Incurable Lung Disease</strong></p> | |
| <p>In Chicago, the countertop maker, Florenza Marble & Granite Corp, was fined $1 million for exposing workers to illegal levels of silica dust. Two workers now have incurable lung disease and one 31-year-old worker even required a double lung transplant. </p> | |
| <p>“Our compliance officers found silica dust levels nearly six times higher than permissible levels and the owner made little or no effort to protect his employees from exposure,” <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osha/osha20240826">said OSHA Regional Administrator Bill Donovan in a statement. </a>“To make matters worse, Karp was indifferent to his employees’ suffering and refused to accept any responsibility for protecting them, even after two insurance carriers dropped the company for its egregious defiance of workplace safety standards.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/company-failed-to-protect-workers-who-now-need-lung-transplants-florenza-marble/">For interviews with the workers, check out <em>Moneywatch</em>. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Korean Nurses Join 6-Month Long Junior Doctors Walkout</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, in Korea, nurses have joined a 6-month long walkout by junior doctors. </p> | |
| <p>This week, over 24,000 nurses at 61 different facilities voted by a margin of 91% to strike in Korea. The nurses say that the refusal to resolve the 6-month long strike by junior doctors and physicians has stretched them to their limit. </p> | |
| <p>“This March, I was suddenly assigned PA [physician assistant] duties,” a nurse working at a hospital in Busan told <em>Hankyoreh</em>. “It’s been troubling to go into operations and do duties I haven’t been trained in, and the scope of my duties has been gradually expanding.” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1155408.html">For more, check out <em>Hankyoreh</em>. </a></p> | |
| <p>News & Headlines Elsewhere </p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://vinepair.com/booze-news/stone-brewing-virginia-union-drive/">Stone Brewing workers in Virginia go union</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.kwch.com/2024/08/27/kobach-leads-multi-state-effort-keep-ag-workers-unionizing/">Kobach leads multi-state effort to keep ag workers from unionizing</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article291394945.html">Hundreds of public defenders walk off the job in Sacramento. </a></li> | |
| <li><a href="http://bargaining/74952831007/">Cornell strike leads to negative move-in experience for many first-year students</a></li> | |
| <li>Worker coops bring undocumented workers into the labor movement</li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/business/kroger-albertsons-merger-union-workers.html"> A Trial Asks: If Grocery Rivals Merge, Do Workers Suffer?</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyldnv5wqqo">Doctors strike in Nigeria over kidnapped colleague</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-08-26/hollywood-workers-production-designers-set-decorators-slowdown">Finally, the LA Times has a long look with set artists struggling with poverty following last years’ strike. </a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments, and complaints to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">Donate to help us cover Kamala & Joe in Pittsburgh on Labor Day. </a>Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">sign up as one of 772 recurring donors. </a>Thanks again for all the support. </p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, <br>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>Canada Forces Teamster Railroad Workers Into Binding Arbitration – UAW Calls for Stellantis CEO to Resign – Ibiza Tent Cities for Essential Workers</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/canada-forces-teamster-railroad-workers-into-binding-arbitration-uaw-calls-for-stellantis-ceo-to-resign-ibiza-tent-cities-for-essential-workers/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:15:59 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I am struggling with some respiratory issues as Pittsburgh faces yet another Air Quality Action Day, when people with sensitive conditions like me are advised not to go outside. </p> | |
| <p><strong>$435-a-Month Health Insurance Premium</strong></p> | |
| <p>As we reach the part of the summer, where we start to struggle with major pollution events in Pittsburgh, my health insurance is more important than ever. However, it costs $435-a-month just for the premium. (I typically pay another $200-a-month in out-of-pocket costs). </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">Donate to help us pay the health insurance bill.</a> Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">sign up as one of our 772 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Canada Forces Teamster Railroad Workers Into Binding Arbitration </strong></p> | |
| <p>Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) locked out 9,000 Canadian Teamster rail workers on Thursday morning. By Saturday, the Canadian government had intervened and forced the unions and the railroads into binding arbitration. </p> | |
| <p>Unions in the country protested the decision. </p> | |
| <p>“Any federally regulated company, it’s a win for them at this point,” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-rail-decision-is-win-federally-regulated-companies-union-leader-says-2024-08-25/">Paul Boucher, President of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference told Reuters </a>. “This is disastrous for labour, for workers.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-rail-decision-is-win-federally-regulated-companies-union-leader-says-2024-08-25/">For more, check out Reuters. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>UAW Calls for Stellantis CEO to Resign </strong></p> | |
| <p>Recently, Shawn Fain has been facing criticism for cutting a weak, quick deal at Stellantis. The deal’s weakness was used as justification by Fain to demote the UAW Vice President for Stellantis, Rich Boyer. In return, Boyer has fought back that Fain knew about the agreement with Stellantis,</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/uaw-federal-monitor-investigates-fains-purge-of-top-allies-while-convicted-felon-steers-uaw-legal/">(See Payday Report’s 6,000-word story on the complex controversies that lead Fain to purge several of his top allies). </a></p> | |
| <p>Last week, Fain threatened to call a strike at Stellantis if they didn’t reopen their Belvidere plant in Illinois. The company responded that such a strike would be illegal. </p> | |
| <p>Now, Fain is calling for the CEO of Stellantis to resign. “It’s time for a change, and that starts with the man at the top,” Fain said in a video released by the UAW. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.teslarati.com/uaw-stellantis-ceo-step-down-strike/">For more, check out Telsarati. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>On Luxurious Ibiza Island, Essential Workers Forced to Sleep in Tents</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, the New York Times has an indepth look at essential workers on the island of Ibiza, who are forced to live in tents: </p> | |
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| <p>“In lieu of a new apartment, Ms. Bocuñano, 38, spent a frightening two weeks sleeping in her car, then three months in a tent with her 10-year-old son, Raúl, by her side, before buying a used caravan in June. For a couple of months, she stationed the Caravelair-brand trailer in Can Rova, an ad hoc village of tents, shacks and campers on the outskirts of Ibiza Town, the island’s capital, just behind a dealership selling expensive powerboats. “When we first came here it was cold,” she said. “Like, very cold.”</p> | |
| <p>Tent cities began popping up here in 2023, but they have mushroomed in size and number this year. Can Rova, the largest of three major camps in and around the capital, was home to some 280 people this summer. On a recent July night, six people and a dog were bedding down on the floor in Ms. Bocuñano’s caravan.</p> | |
| <p>Many Can Rova residents said that, with nowhere else to go, they hoped to stay indefinitely. But on July 31, the police made good on a court order to clear the camp, which had been erected on private land. (The owner is currently embroiled in an array of zoning and legal disputes.) Many said they planned to relocate to one of the other camps, even as those sites lacked the electricity, water and perimeter fence that made Can Rova accommodating.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/realestate/ibiza-spain-homeless.html">For more, check out the New York Times. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>News & Headlines Happening Elsewhere </strong></p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://uaw.org/julian-electric-workers-file-for-union-election-to-join-uaw-will-hold-mass-meeting-saturday-in-chicago/">500 largely Latino workers move to unionize with UAW in Illinois</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pa-cyber-charter-advisors-counselors-authorize-strike/">Pa. Cyber Charter advisors, counselors authorize strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/local/atts-service-outage-impacts-charleston-amid-communications-workers-strike-wciv-abc-news-4-outage-communications-workers-of-america-district-3-james-island-mount-pleasant-downtown-charleston-west-ashley-goose-creek-ladson">AT&T’s service outage impacts Charleston amid Communications Workers strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/labor-unionization/2024/08/23/boston-u-grad-worker-strike-now-longest-decade">Boston U grad worker strike now longest in a decade</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.wcjb.com/2024/08/23/gainesville-union-workers-have-less-than-month-organize-or-risk-decertification/">Gainesville union workers have less than a month to organize or risk decertification</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/las-vegas-workers-want-taxes-on-tips-eliminated-expert-says-it-could-have-consequences/">Las Vegas workers want taxes on tips eliminated, expert says it could have consequences</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.vox.com/education/368756/teachers-school-unions-labor-education-students-strikes">Finally, a new study shows that teachers union strikes have little negative impact on students and largely positive impacts </a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">Donate to help us cover how the rank and file union members</a> are fighting back in the battleground. Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-rank-file-in-battleground-states/">sign up as one of our 772 recurring donors. </a>Thanks for all the support and solidarity. </p> | |
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| <title>UAW Calls for Palestinians to Speak at DNC Tonite – Chicago Firefighters Picket DNC – Walz’s Amazing OSHA Record in Minnesota</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/uaw-calls-for-allowing-palestinians-to-speak-at-dnc-tonite-chicago-firefighters-picket-dnc-walz-incredible-osha-record-in-minnesota/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:37:45 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where we are closely tracking how the labor movement is forcing a shutdown allowing a Palestinian at the DNC. </p> | |
| <p><strong>UAW Calls for Allowing Palestinians to Speak at DNC Tonite </strong></p> | |
| <p>Late last night, the DNC announced that they would not allow a Palestinian to speak at the Democratic National Committee; a big blow to the Uncommitted movement that had been pushing for one at the DNC. </p> | |
| <p>Now, some unions like the UAW are calling for a Palestinian speaker to be allow to speak on the last night of the DNC. </p> | |
| <p>“If we want the war in Gaza to end, we can’t put our heads in the sand or ignore the voices of the Palestinian Americans in the Democratic Party,”<a href="https://x.com/UAW/status/1826626152049307934?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet"> tweeted the UAW this morning. </a>“If we want peace, if we want real democracy, and if we want to win this election, the Democratic Party must allow a Palestinian American speaker to be heard from the DNC stage tonight”. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Chicago Firefighter Picket DNC</strong></p> | |
| <p>While many public sector workers inside of the DNC celebrated the nomination of Tim Walz last night, outside Chicago firefighters pickets. Chicago’s firefighters union has been without a contract for three years. </p> | |
| <p>“We’re just asking for basic needs, basic necessities,” <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/democratic-national-convention-chicago-2024/chicago-firefighters-protesting-near-democratic-national-convention-after-3-years-without-contract/">Firefighters Union Local 2 President Pat Clfeary told WGN. </a>“More manpower to do our jobs. If you’re having seven firefighters die in a two-year period, something’s wrong.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://wgntv.com/news/democratic-national-convention-chicago-2024/chicago-firefighters-protesting-near-democratic-national-convention-after-3-years-without-contract/"><strong>For more, check out WGN. </strong></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Elite Parties Across Town </strong></p> | |
| <p>While many celebrated the community vibes of the DNC, far more elite parties funded by corporations were happening in other parts of the town. Luke Goldstein at <em>The American Prospect</em> crashed some of the parties: </p> | |
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| <p>“Once I reached the official registration check, the mistake I made was to flash my newly acquired press pass for the convention, which I thought would make me look official. That apparently was worse than not having registration at all, because general press weren’t being allowed in. While I tried stalling for time, explaining my situation, I peeked beyond the checkpoint at the main concert hall of the House of Blues, which was teeming with people. Both sides of the bar were packed and the main concert floor was starting to fill up. Networking had begun; business cards exchanged, connections forged.</p> | |
| <p>I ultimately was turned away, unable to participate. Nor would I the next night at the closed-off United Airlines party featuring special guest and board member Walter Isaacson, the renowned biographer who still maintains his honorific title of journalist when he appears on cable news shows, despite his corporate board position.</p> | |
| <p>Other events are much easier to edge your way into. Instead of the United Airlines party, I made my way over to a soiree hosted by a number of unions at the Art Institute of Chicago; lots of DNC and local city officials were present, as well as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra.</p> | |
| <p>Even happy hours hosted by progressive lawmakers were temporarily closed off to the press while members delivered remarks.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-21-dnc-convention-nobody-gets-to-see/">For more, check out the American Prospect. </a></p> | |
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| <p><strong>Walz Made Minnesota 5th Least Worker Deaths in US</strong></p> | |
| <p>Former Obama-era OSHA Director Dr. David Michael and Deputy Director Jordan Barab have a look at how Walz passed OSHA state plan reforms that made Minnesota the state with the 5th fewest workplace deaths in the country. From <em>The American Prospect</em>: </p> | |
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| <p>“Walz and the Minnesota state legislature have an <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/tim-walz-unions-labor-record-kamala-harris-vp-pick.html">outstanding labor record</a> in general, instituting paid family and medical leave, banning noncompete clauses, prohibiting anti-union “captive audience” meetings, and creating a statewide council to improve conditions for nursing home workers.</p> | |
| <p>Minnesota under Gov. Walz also runs one of the most effective OSHA state plan programs. And they’re saving lives. The <a href="https://aflcio.org/reports/dotj-2024">state ranks</a> fifth-lowest in the rate of workplace fatalities, significantly lower than the federal workplace fatality rate.</p> | |
| <p>In 2023, with a narrow Democratic majority and working closely with the Minnesota AFL-CIO, the state legislature <a href="https://www.dli.mn.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-mnosha-legislative-summary.pdf">passed several innovative laws</a> that greatly strengthen the safety and health protections provided to Minnesota workers employed in high-hazard jobs.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-08-21-how-tim-walz-saved-workers-lives-limbs/">For a few list of initiatives and breakthroughs, check out the American Prospect. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Alright yinz, we will have more later today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments, and complaints to </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><strong>[email protected]</strong></a><strong> </strong></p> | |
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| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>Poll: PA Union Members Flip for Harris in Stunning Fashion</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/poll-pa-union-members-flip-for-harris-in-stunning-fashion/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:34:36 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>PITTSBURGH, PA. – As Governor Tim Walz, a former Minnesota state football championship coach, takes the field to speak at a televised, invite-only event at an Aliquippa football stadium, he can’t contain his joy at being there. The battered blue-collar team is the only program in America that has produced three Hall of Famers and five state champions.</p> | |
| <p>“This is (a) pretty sacred place, people in Minnesota know about this place,” says Walz. “We know about this team. We know about the people you produce. Not just NFL players, but men of character, who come out of this program.” </p> | |
| <p>Standing beside him, nodding, is Hall of Fame Steelers legend Jerome Bettis aka “the Bus.” </p> | |
| <p>In 2004, Bettis, the son of blue collars workers, donated to George W. Bush. Then, in 2008, he led Barack Obama on a tour of the Braddock Steel Works during the election. </p> | |
| <p>However, since then, Bettis has largely remained out of politics until Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, which he publicly endorsed to much fanfare at rallies in the Pittsburgh region on Sunday. </p> | |
| <p>“It bodes well for the middle class that you have a voice like hers,”<a href="https://community.triblive.com/news/03b4755cf290d4aafe47d70dde143ecf"> Bettis told supporters at a rally earlier in the day.</a> “I like the lineup they have.”</p> | |
| <p>In many ways, Bettis’ politics represents those of many in Western Pennsylvania, swinging between political parties and being inactive over the past two decades. New polling shows that many Pennsylvania voters have returned to the Democratic Party just as Jerome Bettis did. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-erases-donald-trump-lead-union-voters-pennsylvania-1940519">According to a new poll released by Emerson College</a>, while Trump was leading among union voters by a margin of 50% to 45% in July, the trend has now reversed dramatically, with<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-erases-donald-trump-lead-union-voters-pennsylvania-1940519"> Kamala Harris leading among union voters by a whopping margin of 56.8% to 42%. </a></p> | |
| <p>This is part of a larger trend where union voters are attracted to the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz ticket. Walz, himself, was a member of a teachers’ union for 24 years, something he brings up regularly in media appearances. </p> | |
| <p>In her campaign stop in Aliquippa alongside Walz and Bettis, Vice President Kamala Harris says people are flocking towards their campaign because of the message of inclusivity, something which unions represent for many in a blue collar Rust Belt region like Pittsburgh. </p> | |
| <p>“Over the last several years, there’s been this kind of perversion that has taken place, I think, which is to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down when,” Harris said on Sunday. “What we know is the real and true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up.”</p> | |
| <p>Union leaders said the message resonates with their membership, leading to a surge of support among union voters for their ticket. </p> | |
| <p>“Walz and Harris are about freedom—the freedom to join a union, to thrive in the economy, to make our own healthcare decisions, to be free from gun violence,” says American Federation of Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten, who pushed heavily for Walz’s selection. “They will stand up for the middle class against a weak, dark, dystopian alternative that wants to send us back to the past.” </p> | |
| <p>Meanwhile, Trump is attacking unions, suggesting that it be legal for Elon Musk to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/13/musk-trump-uaw-labor-union-x-interview.html">fire unionized workers threatening to strike at Tesla. </a></p> | |
| <p>Some union leaders like the UAW President Shawn Fain call him a “scab,” After Fain called him a “scab,” <a href="https://x.com/OrganizerMemes/status/1825710538682216657">searches for what the word means skyrocketed on Google. </a></p> | |
| <p>While it may seem that the wind is at the back of Democrats trying to win support from union members, Jerome Bettis isn’t so confident that it’s gonna be as easy to persuade folks to support Kamala as it was for him. </p> | |
| <p>“It is going to be a tough race. Both sides are committed,”<a href="https://community.triblive.com/news/03b4755cf290d4aafe47d70dde143ecf"> Bettis told supporters last Sunday.</a> “Whoever has the ball last is probably going to win.”</p> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>We didn’t attend the DNC tonight because<a href="https://www.wbez.org/2024/08/14/what-it-costs-to-cover-the-democratic-national-convention?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-wbez"> it cost $751 for credentials as a reporter to attend</a>. Rather than spend nearly $2,000, including travel and host costs, I decided to stay home to watch it on TV and work sources. </p> | |
| <p>Instead of going to the big conventions and fancy events already packed with reporters, we plan to cover the rank-and-file fighting it out in the battleground states. We intend to focus primarily in the battleground states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin and Minnesota. </p> | |
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| <title>Black Teamsters Retiree Speaks As Harris Axes Teamster Prez at DNC – Weingarten’s Role in Pushing Walz as VP – Fain Defends Stellantis Deal at DNC</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/black-teamsters-retiree-speaks-as-harris-axes-teamster-prez-at-dnc-weingartens-role-in-pushing-walz-as-vp-fain-defends-stellantis-deal-at-dnc/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:02:37 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Greetings from the Burgh, where I decided to stay to cover DNC, instead of paying $751 for a credential for DNC.  Big thanks to everyone...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I decided to stay to cover DNC,<a target="_blank" href="https://www.wbez.org/2024/08/14/what-it-costs-to-cover-the-democratic-national-convention?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-wbez" rel="noreferrer noopener"> instead of paying $751 for a credential for DNC. </a></p> | |
| <p>Big thanks to everyone who <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-us-cover-kamala-tim-walz-coming-to-pittsburgh/" rel="noreferrer noopener">donated to help us cover Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s swing through Western Pennsylvania this week</a>.</p> | |
| <p><strong>Payday’s Nightly DNC Dispatch Plan</strong></p> | |
| <p>Our long story on the Western PA trip will be tomorrow. <em><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/17000-att-workers-strike-in-south-1000-strike-at-cornell-teamsters-prez-snubbed-from-dnc/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Check out on our first nightly DNC dispatch on how Teamsters President Sean O’Brein was snubbed by Kamala Harris on Getting invited)</a>. </em></p> | |
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| <p><strong>Black Teamsters Retiree Speaks As Harris Axes Teamster Prez at DNC</strong></p> | |
| <p>In July, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/this-american-life-features-payday-report/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Check out “This American Life,” produced with Melk as an editorial consultant on the wild incident)</a></p> | |
| <p>O’Brien also wanted to speak at the Democratic National Convention. However, Harris and Biden Administration officials nixed him. Many members of the Democratic Party and organized labor felt that O’Brien had crossed a clear line by campaigning against Biden with Trump at the RNC.</p> | |
| <p>Instead of inviting O’Brien, who desperately lobbied for the spot, the Harris-Walz team invited 25 retired rank-and-file Teamsters to appear on stage. </p> | |
| <p>Speaking for them was Kenneth Stribling, a proud Black Teamsters retiree from Local 200, who had worked for 30 years as a local truck driver in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. </p> | |
| <p>In 2015, he received notice that his pension was slated to be cut in half beginning in 2025, but then the Biden Administration got involved and stopped it. At the same time, he received news that his wife Beverly had pancreatic cancer. </p> | |
| <p>As the humbled Black teamster’s, retiree from Milwaukee calmed down, chants of “U-S-A, U-S-A,” he recalled the anxiety he and his wife felt after receiving the news. </p> | |
| <p>“I didn’t know what I was going to do, so I went to a retirees meeting in the basement of a small church. At that moment, I knew that we were not going down without a fight,” recalled Stribling.</p> | |
| <p>“Beverly made me promise to never quit until we made this right so we organized a nationwide grassroots movement”, said Stribling, who has since become president of the National United Committee to Preserve Pensions. </p> | |
| <p>For over six years, the Obama and Trump administrations had struggled to pass pension reform to save union pensions. </p> | |
| <p>Finally, Stribling says, in the first 50 days of the Biden Administration, they passed the American Recovery Act (ARA). The ARA included the Butch Lewis Act, which helped bail out struggling pension funds to protect union retirees. </p> | |
| <p>“They got it done without one single Republican vote in Congress. They saved over one million pensions,’ says Steibling. He then recalled that his wife died in 2019. </p> | |
| <p>“I cried,” Stribling later recalled to local Milwaukee TV station CBS 58. “I cried, looked up at the sky, and thanked [Beverly] for encouraging me to get involved and stay involved.”</p> | |
| <p><em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbs58.com/news/day-2-of-dnc-highlights-a-milwaukee-mans-pension-struggle-efforts-to-win-back-rural-voters" rel="noreferrer noopener">(For more background on the fight, check out CBS 58 in Milwaukee) </a></em></p> | |
| <p>Union leaders widely praised his remarks on Twitter, who had called out Teamsters President Sean O’Brien for praising Trump at the RNC after Biden struggled in the debate. </p> | |
| <p>“This is all union members need to know about who has your back and who doesn’t,” <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/jimmy_iupat/status/1826047455873651178?s=42&t=jlQ7gRMJFmvpL1gMQl5gew" rel="noreferrer noopener">said Painters Union President Jimmy WIlliams in a statement. </a></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5129012/kenneth-stribling" rel="noreferrer noopener">Go to CSPAN to watch Stribling’s entire remarks at the RNC. </a></p> | |
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| <p><strong>Record Number of Rank-and-File Teachers as Delegates</strong></p> | |
| <p>Continuing the theme of rank-and-file union members playing a vital role in the convention, the AFT union celebrated a record number of teachers attending as a delegate. </p> | |
| <p>No labor official was more pleased with the selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as Harris’ Vice President. Walz had been a member of the union for 24 years. </p> | |
| <p>Behind the scenes, the Jewish president of the powerhouse, 1.5 million, lobbied for Walz to be selected over Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Upon hearing the news, Weingarten tweeted a video of herself describing how excited her membership was now. </p> | |
| <p>“I just got off the plane,” said Weingarten. “My phone has been going crazy cuz we just get news that Tim Walz is Kamala Harris’ choice for Vice President. We are so excited, he’s a teacher, he’s a union member. We have known him for years.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/AFTunion/status/1820836164867109058" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch the viral video here of Weingarten reacting joyfully to Walz selection news. </a></p> | |
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| <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That moment when you’re a union president, and find out that a teacher and union member is going to be the next vice-president.<br><br>We’re excited for former public school teacher & AFT member <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tim_Walz</a> to join <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a> on the ballot this November!<br><br><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f4f8.png" alt="📸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><a href="https://twitter.com/rweingarten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rweingarten</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AFTvotes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AFTvotes</a> <a href="https://t.co/5ZKQvzPUgY">pic.twitter.com/5ZKQvzPUgY</a></p>— AFT (@AFTunion) <a href="https://twitter.com/AFTunion/status/1820836164867109058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> | |
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| <p>The AFT said that the record number of teachers attending the DNC indicated enthusiasm within the union for the ticket. </p> | |
| <p>“I’m so proud of the 120 AFT members who are delegates. We held a reception with them tonight to discuss the week,”<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/rweingarten/status/1825390024856129845" rel="noreferrer noopener"> tweeted Weingarten on Monday.</a> “These members have a voice in this process and we’re all in for<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/KamalaHarris" rel="noreferrer noopener"> @KamalaHarris</a> and<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/Tim_Walz" rel="noreferrer noopener"> @Tim_Walz</a>.”</p> | |
| <p><strong>Help us Travel Rank-and-File Fighting in Battleground</strong>.</p> | |
| <p>Instead of attending the big conventions and fancy events packed with reporters, we plan to cover the rank-and-file fighting it out in the battleground states. We will focus primarily on Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Minnesota battleground states. </p> | |
| <p><strong>If you want us to visit you or can donate frequent flier miles, let us know <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">at [email protected]</a> </strong></p> | |
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| <p><strong>Fain Talks Displease with His Stellantis Deal at High-Profile Presser Conference</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, in a press conference with a select group of reporters at the DNC, UAW President Shawn Fain discussed his displeasure with the Stellantis decision to not fully reopen a plant. </p> | |
| <p>Recently, Fain has been facing criticism for cutting a weak, quick deal at Stellantis. The deal’s weakness led Fain to demote the UAW Vice President of Stellantis, Rich Boyer. In return, Boyer has fought back that Fain knew about the agreement with Stellantis,</p> | |
| <p><em><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/uaw-federal-monitor-investigates-fains-purge-of-top-allies-while-convicted-felon-steers-uaw-legal/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(See Payday Report’s 6,000-word story on the complex controversies that lead Fain to depose several of his top allies). </a></em></p> | |
| <p>In remarks captured by veteran labor reporter Harold Meyerson, Fain defended the deal he cut and blamed the automaker. From the American Prospect: </p> | |
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| <p>Fain also discussed the UAW’s displeasure with Stellantis, with which the union signed a contract last fall. The contract contained a commitment by the company to reopen a currently shuttered plant in Belvidere, Illinois. Despite its contractual commitment, Stellantis now says it won’t reopen the plant, as agreed to, in 2027, nor reopen supplier plants, some scheduled to be reopened next year, until the main plant is brought back.</p> | |
| <p>By pushing the main reopening to 2028, Fain said, the current contract, with its commitments, will have expired by the time Stellantis now says the reopening will happen—effectively voiding its current contractual pledge. Fain noted that the union could strike the company in roughly a month’s time if Stellantis doesn’t recommit to the contract it signed. He also noted that the UAW had dropped some other demands last fall when the company agreed to reopen Belvidere, and should the union strike, those demands could be back on the table.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-08-20-dnc-shawn-fain-explicates-scab/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out the American Prospect. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Alright folks, that’s for all today. Keep sending tips and story ideas to <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </strong></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover the rank-and-file in battleground states.</a> Please, if you can, <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/" rel="noreferrer noopener">sign up as one of our 771 recurring donors today. </a>Thanks again for all the support. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Love & Solidarity, </strong></p> | |
| <p>Melk </p> | |
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| <title>17,000 AT&T Workers Strike in South – 1,000 Strike at Cornell – Teamsters Prez Snubbed from DNC</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/17000-att-workers-strike-in-south-1000-strike-at-cornell-teamsters-prez-snubbed-from-dnc/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:28:29 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where we are beginning to see what may be a small uptick in union organizing this summer.  Donate to help...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where we are beginning to see what may be a small uptick in union organizing this summer. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">Donate to help us cover this uptick. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>17,000 AT&T Workers Strike in South </strong></p> | |
| <p>This weekend, over 17,000 AT&T workers went out on strike throughout the South. </p> | |
| <p>“Our union entered into negotiations in a good faith effort to reach a fair contract, but we have been met at the table by company representatives who were unable to explain their own bargaining proposals and did not seem to have the actual bargaining authority required by the legal obligation to bargain in good faith,” CWA District 3 Vice President Richard Honeycutt told NPR. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/08/17/nx-s1-5079614/att-workers-strike-contract-negotiations">For more, check out NPR. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>1,000 Cornell Workers Went on Strike </strong></p> | |
| <p>At Cornell, over 1,000 workers, representing blue collar and clerical employees at the university, have gone on strike. The strike occurred only one week before move-in week.</p> | |
| <p>“We’re leveraging the academic calendar to show Cornell that you need to pay us what we’re worth,” UAW Local 2300 President Christine Johnson told the Cornel Sun. “We want the students to have a good experience.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://cornellsun.com/2024/08/18/breaking-cornell-workers-to-strike-after-failed-negotiations-with-the-university/">For more, check out the Cornell Sun. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Help Us Track Strike Uptick This Summer</strong></p> | |
| <p>Over the past few weeks, we are starting to see an uptick in strikes and strike threats throughout the US. With the school year starting, we are likely to see many educators striking as well. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">Donate to help us track these strikes.</a> Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">sign up as one of our 772 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Teamsters President Denied DNC Speaking Slot </strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier this summer, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien drew controversy when he spoke at the Republican National Convention. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/this-american-life-features-payday-report/">(Listen to our episode with “This American Life” on the incident)</a>. </p> | |
| <p>Now, it is being reported that O’Brien was denied a request to speak at the DNC. Kamala Harris, though, has pledged to meet privately with the Teamsters. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/harris-meet-teamsters-union-president-invited-speak-democratic-112917315">For more, check out the AP. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>DNC to Heavily Feature Union Leaders Tonite</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, while O’Brein wont be speaking at the DNC tonite, the convention’s first night is expected to heavily feature union leaders. At least 7 union leaders were expected to speak on Monday night. </p> | |
| <p>“Chicago is the hometown of the American Labor Movement, and this DNC is union strong,” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-national-convention-speakers-labor-unions/">Chicago Federation of Labor President Bob Reiter told CBS.</a> “From the labor peace agreement we negotiated with the DNC and the Host Committee to our incredible workforce that keeps Chicago moving every day, we are excited to welcome delegates from across the United States to the Windy City.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-national-convention-speakers-labor-unions/">For more, check out CBS. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><strong>[email protected]</strong></a><strong>, </strong></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">Donate to help us cover an organizing uptick we are seeing.</a> Please, if you can,<a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/"> sign up as one of 772 recurring donors today. </a>Thanks again for your support.<br></p> | |
| <p><strong>Love & Solidarity, </strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>Melk</strong></p> | |
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| <title>Help Us Cover Kamala & Tim Walz Coming to Pittsburgh</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/help-us-cover-kamala-tim-walz-coming-to-pittsburgh/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:13:25 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are kicking off their cross-country bus tour to the DNC on Saturday in Pittsburgh.  On Saturday, we...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are kicking off their cross-country bus tour to the DNC on Saturday in Pittsburgh. </p> | |
| <p>On Saturday, we are hoping to get a small crew of folks together to film and record the reaction and energy of the crowd. But we need your donations to do it. </p> | |
| <p>The event will highlight how Pittsburgh will be crucial in the coming election and we will tell the story of how the coalition of labor, racial justice, and so many other groups are fighting back in the Rust Belt. </p> | |
| <p>Yinz, all know that Payday can make a big impact. Recently, we worked with <a href="https://paydayreport.com/this-american-life-features-payday-report/"><em>This American Life</em>. </a>We have been cited on <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/">the front page of The Washington Post,</a> featured on <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/06/910321514/the-state-of-the-american-worker-during-a-pandemic">NPR’s <em>All Things Considered</em> Labor Day broadcast</a>, and profiled on <a href="https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/story/18399/mike-e-pittsburgh-pa-to-me-work-means/"><em>American Portrait</em></a> on PBS. </p> | |
| <p><em>Esquire</em> described our work as <a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a37869470/iatse-strike-labor-agitation-nationwide/">“invaluable,”</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/business/media/labor-unions-media-coverage.html"><em>The New York Times</em> called us a publication with “new energy,</a>” and last year <a href="https://paydayreport.com/were-nominated-for-an-emmy-for-work-on-cnn-special-where-do-we-even-start-with-white-supremacy/">our work on CNN’s <em>United Shades of America</em> was nominated for an Emmy</a>. </p> | |
| <p>The stories that we develop at Payday have a big impact and get picked up by much larger publications. </p> | |
| <p>But, we need your donations. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/payday-receives-35000-matching-grant-from-illumine-service-foundation/">Through a grant from the Illumine Service Foundation</a>, all donations will be matched up until $20,000 through the election. </p> | |
| <p>Donate to help us hire some folks and cover the battle for the Rust Belt. </p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
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| <title>Nissan Workers May Try Again to Unionize – UK Labour to Rollback Anti-Strike Laws – 106 Year Old Chicago Teachers Union</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/nissan-workers-may-try-again-to-unionize-uk-labour-to-rollback-anti-strike-laws-106-year-old-chicago-teachers-union/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 23:58:21 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings  from the Burgh, where we are working on some very exciting assignments. More in a few days.  Donate to help us pay our...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where we are working on some very exciting assignments. More in a few days. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/payday-receives-35000-matching-grant-from-illumine-service-foundation/">Donate to help us pay our editors and researchers so we can get more stories like this to you. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Nissan Workers in Mississippi May Try to Unionize Again </strong></p> | |
| <p>Back in 2017, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/nissan-you-made-us-mad-union-promises-to-fight-mississippi-defeat/">Payday Report traveled to Mississippi to cover the efforts of Nissan workers</a> there to unionize. Unfortunately, the union was defeated in a near 2-to-1 blowout. </p> | |
| <p>Workers have been organizing for more than twenty years at the plant and the fight to unionize it has long looked like a pipe dream. However, workers at the heavily African-American plant have continued meeting and trying to unionize for nearly 20 years. </p> | |
| <p>Now, after the successful unionization efforts of Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga in April, workers at Nissan are talking about intensifying their efforts to unionize. From WBHM 90.3 FM: </p> | |
| <p>“Anti-union attitudes aren’t restricted to Mississippi, but spread across the South — which is what made the Tennessee Volkswagen plant unionizing so surprising. </p> | |
| <p>“That was big time,” Nissan worker Ernest Whitfield said. “We just were hoping that we were going to be the ones to prove that back in 2017.”</p> | |
| <p>The largest difference between the Nissan vote in 2017 and the latest out of Tennessee is that the Volkswagen election was its third. It often takes more than one vote for a union victory, and like the Starbucks campaign showed with its <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/12/09/1062150045/starbucks-first-union-buffalo-new-york">first win at Buffalo</a>, success has a way of spreading. </p> | |
| <p>Despite the Alabama Mercedes-Benz loss just a month later, that Volkswagen union win is enough to have these Nissan workers wondering if they should try next.</p> | |
| <p>“Because Volkswagen proved that it can be done,” Whitfield said.” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://wbhm.org/2024/nissan-workers-in-mississippi-consider-another-union-campaign-vw-proved-it-can-be-done/">For more, check out WBHM. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong><br></strong><strong>Boeing Workers Could be Primed for a Union Election </strong></p> | |
| <p>In 2017, workers at Boeing in South Carolina also lost a union election by a 2-to-1 margin. Now, as more workers speak out about exposes at Boeing, they too could be primed for a union election. </p> | |
| <p>“As far as the workload, I feel like we were definitely trying to put out too much product, right?” one Boeing worker told CNN recently. “That’s how mistakes are made. People try to work too fast. I mean, I can’t speak for anybody else, but we were busy. We were working a lot.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/06/business/boeing-737-max-blowout-ntsb-hearings-day-one/index.html"><strong>For more on the brutal working conditions at Boeing in South Carolina, check out CNN</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>UK Labour Party to Roll Back Anti-Strike Laws </strong></p> | |
| <p>In July, the British Labour Party won an overwhelming victory to take back the House of Commons for the first time in a decade-and-s-half. Now, they are looking to roll back anti-strike laws that prohibited public sector unions from striking. </p> | |
| <p>“We’re consigning it to history,” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/03/labour-axes-gimmick-anti-strike-law-as-it-plans-major-reset-for-workers-rights">Deputy Prime Minister Angela Angela Rayner told <em>The Observer</em>. </a>“Scrapping this toxic legislation is our first step in ending the scorched-earth approach that has blocked negotiation and compromise to resolve disputes and prevent disruption.” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/03/labour-axes-gimmick-anti-strike-law-as-it-plans-major-reset-for-workers-rights"><strong>For more, check out </strong><strong><em>The Observer</em></strong><strong>.</strong></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>DeSantis Invests Public Pension Funds in Risky Flood Insurance </strong></p> | |
| <p>In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is offering to invest that state’s public pension into insurance for properties put at risk from climate change. The move has teachers union activists crying foul. </p> | |
| <p>“The rampant gerrymandering since Jeb Bush’s governorship means DeSantis can hurt millions of Floridians through predatory practices with nary a peep from the legislature,” <a href="https://prospect.org/environment/2024-08-07-florida-invests-in-catastrophe/">AFT president Randi Weingarten told <em>The Prospect</em>. </a>“Moreover, the attack on workers and consumer freedoms that the governor and the legislature have wrought is designed to thwart any fightback.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://prospect.org/environment/2024-08-07-florida-invests-in-catastrophe/">For more, check out <em>The American Prospect.</em> </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Links & News Happening Elsewhere </strong></p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/25/us-officials-israel-bonds-ethics"><strong>$1.7 Billion worth of Israel Bonds purchased with public funds since October 7th attack on Israel </strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://iatse.net/appletv-vfx-workers-unanimously-vote-to-unionize-with-iatse-in-official-labor-board-election/?"><strong>AppleTV VFX workers unanimously vote to unionize with IATSE in official Labor Board election</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.goiam.org/news/imail/iam-core-first-u-s-unionized-apple-retail-store-workers-overwhelmingly-ratify-historic-labor-agreement-with-tech-giant/"><strong>First U.S. unionized Apple retail store workers overwhelmingly ratify historic labor agreement with tech giant</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/05/chip-factory-workers-wages"><strong>US chip factory workers say it’s a ‘struggle to survive’ on their wages as industry booms</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://gothamist.com/news/undocumented-immigrant-workers-in-ny-pay-over-3b-in-taxes-report-says">Undocumented immigrant workers in NY pay over $3 billion in taxes, report says</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/06/samsung_union_rto/"><strong>Korean Samsung union leaders order workers back to work as they transition tactics </strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/08/06/bea-lumpkin-chicago-labor-legend-marks-106th-birthday-as-she-keeps-up-the-fight-for-workers-rights/?utm_content=bufferbcd13&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer"><strong>Finally, a big happy birthday to 106 year old Chicago teachers union activist Bea Lumpkin, </strong></a></li> | |
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| <p><strong>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, and comments to </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><strong>[email protected]</strong></a><strong> </strong></p> | |
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| <p><strong>Love & Solidarity, </strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>Melk</strong></p> | |
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| <title>NEA Uses Scab Labor to Send Out Tim Walz Announcement – Walz’s Labor Record</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/nea-uses-scab-labor-to-send-out-tim-walz-announcement-look-at-walzs-labor-record/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 02:42:06 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where we have been following the excitement among organized labor regarding Tim Walz’s selection.  NEA Uses Scab Labor to Send...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where we have been following the excitement among organized labor regarding Tim Walz’s selection. </p> | |
| <p><strong>NEA Uses Scab Labor to Send Out Tim Walz Announcement </strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier today, teachers union celebrated the selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as Harris’ Vice President pick. </p> | |
| <p>A high school teacher and football coach, Walz, had previously been a member of the AFT. Their union president, Randi Weingarten, who had pushed Walz behind the scenes, celebrated Walz’s selection. </p> | |
| <p>“Gov. Walz is a proud educator who drew on his experience in the classroom to show Minnesotans what a pro-education, pro-labor administration can look like. He is from a small town, served in the military and has consistently given back to his community. He believes the essence of America is to be kind to your neighbor and to help those around you thrive,” Weingarten said in a statement. </p> | |
| <p>National Education Association President Becky Pringle also sent a statement congratulating Walz on his selection. The statement was picked by several outlets and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/nea-educators-are-fired-up-and-united-behind-harris-walz">run in full by the progressive website Common Dreams</a>. </p> | |
| <p>However, a month ago, t<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nea-national-education-association-union-threatens-health-insurance-benefit-lockout/">he NEA locked out over 300 members of its staff union</a> the NEASO. Members of the union objected to the statement. </p> | |
| <p>“It is infuriating, disappointing, and heartbreaking to see how the National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union, <a href="https://x.com/thehousered/status/1820903278361677827?s=46&t=AEDizKbZHju1k6MtwAoCCA">uses scab labor to generate enthusiasm for the Harris-Walz election</a>,” said NEASO President Robin McClean, in a statement. </p> | |
| <p>For that latest on the lockout, <a href="https://www.neasomatters.org/updates/#pressreleases">check out the website of the staff union. </a></p> | |
| <p>Walz’s Track Record on Labor</p> | |
| <p>Over at Slate, veteran labor reporter Steven Greenhouse has a look at Walz’s labor record: </p> | |
| <p>Last year, long before his name was on anyone’s lips as a possible vice presidential pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz received huge praise from labor groups for signing what was considered the most pro-worker, pro-family package of legislation enacted by any state in decades.</p> | |
| <p>That legislation called for 12 weeks’ paid family and medical leave, banned noncompete clauses, prohibited anti-union captive audience meetings, and created a statewide council to improve conditions for nursing home workers. Not stopping there, the legislation included innovative provisions to protect workers at Amazon and other warehouses from high-speed work quotas and unfair firings.</p> | |
| <p>“Tim Walz has been great,” said Bernie Burnham, president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO. “We’ve loved working with him. He thinks all the time about working people, thinks about families, thinks about children. We’re very excited to share him with everybody else.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/tim-walz-unions-labor-record-kamala-harris-vp-pick.html">For more, check out Slate. </a></p> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/payday-receives-35000-matching-grant-from-illumine-service-foundation/">Donate to help us cover the election in battleground states</a>. Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/payday-receives-35000-matching-grant-from-illumine-service-foundation/">sign up as one of our 773 recurring donors today. </a>Thanks again for all the support. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Love & Solidarity, </strong></p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>UAW Federal Monitor Investigates Fain’s Purge of Top Allies While Convicted Felon Steers UAW Legal</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/uaw-federal-monitor-investigates-fains-purge-of-top-allies-while-convicted-felon-steers-uaw-legal/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:04:46 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>This month, the UAW federal monitor Neil Barofsky accused the UAW, which is under a federal consent decree, of refusing to turn over documents regarding the demotion of UAW Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock and UAW Vice President Rich Boyer. </p> | |
| <p>Payday Report has learned that UAW President Shawn Fain’s top legal advisor,<a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ny-supreme-court-appellate-division/1055449.html"> Nathaniel Charny, is a convicted felon who pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges</a> for hiding information regarding embezzlement in the Teamsters in the 1990s. Twenty-five years later, Charny and his legal team are again accused of hiding information from the union’s membership. </p> | |
| <p>The federal monitor seeks to obtain thousands of internal union emails regarding the purge of some of UAW President Shawn Fain’s top allies, including Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock and Vice President for Stellantis Rich Boyer, but the UAW has resisted. </p> | |
| <p>A court-ordered, confidential survey of several hundred UAW staffers showed<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2024/07/02/stellantis-warren-truck-shift-cut-toledo/74284767007/"> that 40% of UAW staffers feared retaliation</a> if they spoke about problems within the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>Barofsky, who won praise from many progressives for his role as special inspector of TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) during the Obama administration, is facing a smear attack from a progressive journalist – Ryan Grim, previously of <em>The Intercept</em>, who recently launched his own publication, <em>Drop Site News</em>, with Jeremy Scahill. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://x.com/ryangrim">Grim is a progressive superstar with over 350,000 followers on Twitter (X) </a>and host of the hit web show <em>Counterpoint</em>, which has over 1 million subscribers on YouTube. </p> | |
| <p>Grim recently<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/"> won praise for questioning the <em>New York Times</em> reporting on sexual assaults committed by Hamas during its attack on October 7</a>. Now, he has used his perch as a respected journalist to run a hit job accusing Neil Barofsky, who’s Jewish, of having a secret Zionist agenda in his role as the UAW’s federal monitor. The union has called for a ceasefire in Gaza. </p> | |
| <p>However, nowhere in Ryan Grim’s reporting on UAW’s federal monitor has he disclosed that his managing editor and co-founder of <em>Drop Site News</em>, Nausicaa Renner, is married to the UAW Communications Director, Jonah Furman.</p> | |
| <p>Furman controls the UAW’s multi-million dollar media budget and is a powerful figure within the labor movement. He’s given work to scores of progressive videographers and communicators and used the power of the UAW’s vast social media space to make the work of their preferred journalists go viral. </p> | |
| <p>Now, through interviews with UAW members, legal experts, and a review of legal documents, Payday Report has learned that Grim’s reporting, based on one anonymous source, is not accurate.</p> | |
| <p>In our 16-month long investigation, Payday Report, has discovered a troubling and well-documented pattern of intimidation and retaliation against those who speak up against misconduct in the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>At a time when the UAW has taken a major setback following the defeat of the union drive at Mercedes in Alabama, this expose by Payday Report raises troubling questions about the dysfunctionality and abuse of employees within the UAW by the Fain administration. </p> | |
| <p>“In the words of Union employees that Internal Audit reported to be representative of this cohort, the Union needs to “[e]nd the toxic idea that fear is a motivator,” “[c]orrect the retaliation,” and “remove the culture of fear of retribution” at the union,”<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/610844f6010cdc16a11b15aa/t/6667618b0a51d65720f6af37/1718051211343/Monitor%27s+Ninth+Status+Report+%286.10.24%29.pdf"> wrote Bafofsky in his 124-page monitor report provided to the UAW’s rank-and-file. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>UAW President Shawn Fain Purges Three Top Allies </strong></p> | |
| <p>In February, the UAW International Executive Board (IEB), led by President Shawn Fain, announced that they had stripped Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock of her responsibility overseeing various organizing projects and departments of the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>Just two years earlier, Fain, a white Bible-quoting factory worker from rural Indiana, had tapped Mock, a Black autoworker from Detroit, to be his running mate. During the campaign, incumbent UAW President Ray Curry, a Black man from North Carolina, made issues of Fain being white. </p> | |
| <p>Mock’s inclusion as a Black woman undoubtedly helped Fain’s ticket win narrowly, with<a href="https://paydayreport.com/mixed-feelings-among-uaw-union-democracy-activists-about-fains-victory/"> only 483 votes cast out of a total of 136,485 votes from the UAW’s rank-and-file.</a> </p> | |
| <p>Less than a year after serving as Fain’s running mate, her demotion shocked many, particularly Black union members, who constitute approximately 25% of the UAW’s membership. </p> | |
| <p>“Without Margaret Mock, there is no way that Fain beats Curry. It’s shocking and no one has clear answers about what’s happening,” one concerned UAW member told Payday Report. </p> | |
| <p>In the wake of a federal scandal that saw many top UAW officers go to jail on charges of embezzlement, bribery, and self-enrichment, Mock implemented an open bid process that made the union’s financial spending practices more transparent and tried to move the UAW away from a system of political patronage that has existed in the union for many decades. </p> | |
| <p>But her new accountability measures angered Fain, who successfully sought to have her demoted in February, claiming that she was hindering the UAW’s ability to quickly spend money on key organizing projects. </p> | |
| <p>After her demotion, Mock filed a complaint with federal monitor Neil Barofsky to investigate. </p> | |
| <p>“When policies are established by the UAW International Executive Board, and/or by the special monitor ordered by the court to oversee the UAW, and/or by federal agencies, it is my responsibility when these policies concern UAW finances to diligently make sure these policies are adhered to,”<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/02/29/uaw-shakeup-leads-to-reassignments-amid-criticism-of-a-new-leader/72780590007/"> Mock said in a statement to the <em>Detroit Free Press</em>.</a> “While it saddens me even further that I get criticized, attacked and retaliated against because I insist on the policies that are in place be adhered to, I will not waver in enforcing financial policies intended to protect our members’ sacred dues dollars.”</p> | |
| <p>As part of the federal consent decree, a federal judge appointed Neil Barofsky to be the federal monitor of the UAW in 2021. </p> | |
| <p>Under the federal consent decree, Barfosky has the right to demand emails about internal decision-making over spending matters and publish the information in regular reports. UAW members read the reports religiously as they debate the union’s tactics and strategy. </p> | |
| <p>Union members were clamoring for more information about what was happening to the top leaders. </p> | |
| <p>“The head of the UAW removing the VP—that’s huge,”<a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/chrysler/2024/06/14/local-stellantis-uaw-meeting-confusion-rich-boyer-shawn-fain-reassignment/74100311007/"> UAW Local 7 President Eric Fleming told <em>The Detroit News</em></a>. “There’s confusion on the (plant) floor.”</p> | |
| <p>Mock requested that Barfofsky investigate these matters and publish independent findings so that rank-and-file UAW members could have a clear idea of the feud between the union’s elected leaders. </p> | |
| <p>In addition to Mock being demoted, UAW’s Vice President for Stetallantis workers, Rich Boyer, was also removed from office for “dereliction of duty,” as Fain told union members last May. </p> | |
| <p>After reaching deals with Ford and GM during the “Stand Up Strike,” the union rushed to reach a deal with Stellantis as well. The quickly-reached deal agreed to controversial language that has resulted in<a href="https://labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/when-stellantis-fired-temps-toledo-jeep-we-marched-plant-management"> the layoffs of thousands of Stellantis temp workers</a>. As the summer progressed and<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2024/07/02/stellantis-warren-truck-shift-cut-toledo/74284767007/"> layoffs intensified at Stellantis</a>, Boyer faced criticism from UAW leadership. He claims that Fain and his senior staff, including Benjamin Dictor and Chris Brooks, were aware and pushed the deal by the UAW at Stellantis. </p> | |
| <p>“Your action against me implies that you or your staff had no visibility or involvement in our discussions during the 2023 negotiations with Stellantis.” Boyer added that Fain’s comments were a “blatant lie, insult and personal attack on my credibility.”</p> | |
| <p>Boyer says that he had opposed several of Fain’s spending decisions. In particular, Boyer had opposed Fain’s attempt to give his romantic partner and her sister an enhanced early retirement as part of their leaving the joint UAW-Chrysler National Training Center. </p> | |
| <p>When running against incumbent UAW President Ray Curry in 2022, Fain and his allies heavily criticized the practice of keeping relatives and romantic partners on the union payroll. They also attacked previous UAW President Rory Gamble for having his son employed at the Center. </p> | |
| <p>“Ten union and three Fiat-Chrysler executives have been charged with using Center funds to finance their lavish lifestyles, and some are already in jail,”<a href="https://labornotes.org/2019/11/gary-jones-just-resigned-uaw-president%E2%80%94now-questions-arise-about-acting-president-rory"> wrote Fain’s top strategist, Chris Brooks</a>, in 2019. “But the Center served another purpose: as a source of jobs, including sham jobs, for friends and family of union officials.” </p> | |
| <p>As people within the UAW raised questions about the employment of Fain’s romantic partner and her sister, talks began about how to figure out a way for the two to leave the union. </p> | |
| <p>As part of the negotiations, Fain requested that his partner and her sister receive an enhanced retirement package so that they could retire early. To avoid having the enhanced early retirement package raise regulators’ eyebrows, Fain requested that every worker at the Training Center get the same “bump,” a provision that Boyer objected to as being too costly. </p> | |
| <p>The demotion of Fain’s running mate and top Vice President in Stellantis continues a troubling pattern of Fain purging his top allies when they don’t agree with him. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/uaw-challenger-fain-purges-top-allies-in-favor-of-brooklyn-consultants/">In March 2023, Payday Report obtained documents</a> showing that Fain had already fired his previously hand-picked chief of staff, Joe Rioux, and most of his previously chosen top senior staffers. </p> | |
| <p>The mass firings came after Rioux and then-top Fain staffers raised concerns about the top-down approach of a controversial Brooklyn-based union consultant Chris Brooks. After other staffers voiced similar concerns, Fain also fired top allies, including Anna Bakalis, Jonathan Smuckler, Sarah Saheb, and Allison Troy. Later, Susan Pratt chose to resign in solidarity with them. </p> | |
| <p>Rioux addressed concerns regarding the dismissal of Fain’s previously selected senior leadership team and its implication for the UAW reform movement<a href="https://paydayreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FILE_7609.pdf"> in a 5-page memo written on February 22, after his dismissa</a>l.<a href="https://paydayreport.com/uaw-challenger-fain-purges-top-allies-in-favor-of-brooklyn-consultants/"> (See Payday’s 2023 story “UAW Challenger Fain Purges Top Allies in Favor of Brooklyn Consultants”)</a></p> | |
| <p>Fain’s senior top staffers had expressed their concern about naming an inexperienced white social media-savvy former labor writer to a top leadership position within the very racially diverse UAW. The union’s previous incumbent president, Ray Curry, is a 58-year-old Black man from North Carolina.</p> | |
| <p>Payday Report obtained a<a href="https://paydayreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FILE_7609.pdf"> five-page memo in which Rioux</a> voiced similar concerns that Brooks, a long-time Brooklyn-based union consultant, routinely downplayed and short-shrifted the perspectives of Black workers. Furthermore, the group of close Fain allies expressed deep concerns that Brooks, who Fain has chosen as his right-hand man despite having never worked for the UAW or being a member of a UAW bargaining unit, operated in a style that could severely hurt the UAW reform movement. </p> | |
| <p>In June of 2020,<a href="https://paydayreport.com/how-black-brown-workers-are-redefining-strikes-in-a-digital-covid-age/"> Brooks drew heavy criticism</a> when he dismissed the possibility that Black Lives Matter was inspiring a massive upsurge of strike activities in the early stages of the pandemic. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/how-black-brown-workers-are-redefining-strikes-in-a-digital-covid-age/">Brooks’ comments led many Black leaders to criticize him as racially tone-deaf.</a> Others worried that Brooks was insecure and obsessed with control. </p> | |
| <p>“My concerns and the concerns shared by the team members listed above are that Chris has assumed a role in the transition and in your future administration that he does not possess the experience or personal maturity to carry out,”<a href="https://paydayreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FILE_7609.pdf"> Rioux wrote.</a> “In a short time, his lack of transparency, his need for control over departmental discussions, his need to control access to you, and his apparent lack of ability to work in a real collaborative manner became apparent.”</p> | |
| <p>After Rioux and his allies left Fain’s transition team, Chris Brooks proposed that the union engage in purges of staffers in the union that was narrowly divided during the union’s presidential election in 2023. Brooks suggested that UAW leadership investigate its workforce to see who was loyal. </p> | |
| <p>“ID those we can work with, move the program, ID those who need to be purged,”<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/03/20/shawn-fain-uaw-draft-plans-memo-president/70021322007/"> Brooks wrote in an email obtained by the <em>Detroit Free Press</em> in 2023. </a></p> | |
| <p>The demotion of the UAW’s Black Secretary-Treasurer, Margaret Mock, brought back to the surface a feeling of uneasiness among union members, particularly Black union members. </p> | |
| <p>In court documents, Barofsky is now charging the UAW with failing to turn over information about Fain’s purge of his allies. </p> | |
| <p>“As of the date of this Report, more than three months after the Monitor’s initial document request, the Union has produced a very small portion (approximately 2,600 documents) of the current potentially relevant pool of approximately 116,000—and with more than 80% of those documents only produced on June 6, 2024, days before the issuance of this Report,”<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/610844f6010cdc16a11b15aa/t/6667618b0a51d65720f6af37/1718051211343/Monitor%27s+Ninth+Status+Report+%286.10.24%29.pdf"> charged Barofsky in court documents filed in June.</a> “There has been a similar lack of production for the Monitor’s embezzlement investigation into one of the Union’s Regional Directors.” </p> | |
| <p>The union has justified its delays by advancing arguments that the decisions regarding Mock’s demotion were privileged information. However, both the Department of Justice, which is overseeing the consent decree governing the UAW, and the federal monitor have rejected this argument. </p> | |
| <p>If access is given to the documents, it could hurt Fain politically within the union, giving the Fain administration a motive to conceal them.</p> | |
| <p>Barofsky’s federal monitor reports paint a troubling picture within the UAW of union staffers and leaders frustrated by Fain’s quest to consolidate his power base and purge union leaders that he sees as disloyal. </p> | |
| <p>“A recent culture assessment—conducted by the Union’s Internal Audit function— uncovered remnants of that culture still at the union. On the one hand, there were several positive aspects of the culture assessment, with most Union staff members reporting that they feel a strong sense of mission and purpose-driven employment; gain ‘a sense of personal fulfillment from [their] work;’ and feel ‘motivated and inspired’ by the UAW’s identity,”<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/610844f6010cdc16a11b15aa/t/66918e47d5ab512d263e0865/1720815176340/UAW+Monitor+Tenth+Report_07-12+%5Bfilestamped%5D.pdf"> wrote Barofsky in a report sent to the union’s membership in July. </a></p> | |
| <p>But while the UAW and its telegenic president, Shawn Fain, were getting good press, a survey of hundreds of UAW staffers conducted by the Monitor’s office showed that feelings within the UAW were also very troubling. </p> | |
| <p>“But, based on the hundreds of anonymous survey responses, the culture assessment also found divisions and silos within the union that are negatively impacting the union’s culture. For example, the survey revealed that a concerning number of Union personnel continue to fear retaliation if they were to report misconduct, and that many harbor the same kinds of concerns that were present at the start of the monitorship,” wrote Barofsky. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/610844f6010cdc16a11b15aa/t/66918e47d5ab512d263e0865/1720815176340/UAW+Monitor+Tenth+Report_07-12+%5Bfilestamped%5D.pdf">Barofsky’s 124-page report was sent</a> to the UAW’s 300,000 members and widely read. For many union members, it raised deep questions about Fain’s purge within the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>“Although the Monitor will make no judgment on whether the actions of the President were appropriate until after he concludes the investigation described in the Monitor’s Ninth Status Report, these events have been perceived by Union staff—that already has significant concerns about a “culture of fear of retribution”—as confirmation that even the highest-ranked Union officials can be subject to retaliation,” wrote Barofsky in July. </p> | |
| <p>“Specifically, reports to the Monitor’s Hotline from Union staff have cited the actions taken against the Secretary-Treasurer and Vice President as driving retaliation fears that reporting alleged abuses might lead to retribution from the President’s Office,” wrote Barofsky. ”Given the fragility of the union’s cultural perception of retaliation, whether they were appropriate or not, how these recent acts are perceived by the union’s staff must be taken into account when tackling this persistent cultural challenge.”</p> | |
| <p>One long-time UAW local leader joked with me that Fain was like “Walter Reuther both in a good and bad way – you got (to) remember Reuther purged a lot of people.” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/610844f6010cdc16a11b15aa/t/66918e47d5ab512d263e0865/1720815176340/UAW+Monitor+Tenth+Report_07-12+%5Bfilestamped%5D.pdf">Confidential data from surveys of several hundred UAW staff conducted by the Monitor</a> found a deep culture of fear within the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>“In the words of Union employees that Internal Audit reported to be representative of this cohort, the Union needs to ‘[e]nd the toxic idea that fear is a motivator,’ ‘[c]orrect the retaliation,’ and ‘remove the culture of fear of retribution,’ at the union,”<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/610844f6010cdc16a11b15aa/t/66918e47d5ab512d263e0865/1720815176340/UAW+Monitor+Tenth+Report_07-12+%5Bfilestamped%5D.pdf"> wrote Bafofsky in July. </a></p> | |
| <p>“The data gathered during the survey underscores the widespread nature of the concerns of these staff members. For example, of the approximately 100 Union staff who reported that they witnessed unethical behavior or misconduct during the 12 months prior to the survey, over 30% said that they did not report the misconduct they witnessed. All survey participants were asked why they would not report misconduct if they saw it, and, in response, over 40% of respondents said that they would decline to report out of fear of retaliation. Calls to the Monitor’s Hotline have independently and repeatedly echoed these same concerns,”<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/610844f6010cdc16a11b15aa/t/66918e47d5ab512d263e0865/1720815176340/UAW+Monitor+Tenth+Report_07-12+%5Bfilestamped%5D.pdf"> concluded Barofsky. </a></p> | |
| <p>Barofsky wrote that both Fain’s Secretary-Treasurer and Vice President for Stellantis complained that they were removed from their assignments within the union because they would not go along with spending requests from the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>The demotions had a chilling effect on debate within the union.</p> | |
| <p>“Specifically, reports to the Monitor’s Hotline from Union staff have cited the actions taken against the Secretary-Treasurer and Vice President as driving retaliation fears that reporting alleged abuses might lead to retribution from the President’s Office,” continued Barofsky. “Given the fragility of the Union’s cultural perception of retaliation, whether they were appropriate or not, how these recent acts are perceived by the Union’s staff must be taken into account when tackling this persistent cultural challenge.”</p> | |
| <p><strong>Bernie Bros from Brooklyn Push Out Rank-and-File from UAW Communications Office </strong></p> | |
| <p>One person, who found their political patronage system threatened by Mock’s open bid process is UAW Communications Director Jonah Furman, who controls the union’s multi-million dollar media budget. Furman, a DC-based union consultant, had previously worked as the top labor liaison for the Bernie Sanders campaign and at <em>Labor Notes</em>. </p> | |
| <p>With over 60,000 Twitter followers, Furman is a social media powerhouse and commands a legion of labor fans, who have turned Fain into the most famous labor leader in the country.</p> | |
| <p>However, members of the UAW’s Local Union Communication Association (UAW-LUCA) complained that Furman was turning away from previous hires from the rank and file of the UAW to hire Beltway-connected consultants, hiring many of the talented content makers of the Bernie campaign. </p> | |
| <p>The hires paid off and made Fain a household name, but rank-and-file UAW members felt left excluded. </p> | |
| <p>“The latest round of hiring for the International UAW Communications Department is to be filled with all candidates that are non-UAW candidates, bringing the department to a ratio where less than 50% (fifty percent) of the staff was UAW before entering the department,” <a href="http://paydayreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-30-at-18.28.04-1.jpeg">wrote the rank-and-file members in a leaked petition obtained by Payday Report</a>.</p> | |
| <p>The group of UAW leaders signing it included Jessie Kelly of UAW Local 160, Luiji Gukal of UAW Local 51, Lynda Jackson of UAW Local 7, Ben Bell of UAW Local 7, Jackie Robinson of UAW Local 160, and Kristian Graham of UAW Local 228. </p> | |
| <p>“We the undersigned UAW-LUCA representative(s), petition a meeting with Jonah Furman to discuss the recent decision and direction of the department to cease to use content that is created by rank and file UAW members until the International UAW Communications Department is represented by a majority of staff, whom were UAW members prior to accepting the role in the department,”<a href="http://paydayreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-30-at-18.28.04-1.jpeg"> </a>wrote the group. </p> | |
| <p>With Fain facing increasing pressure from within the UAW and complaints that they lost a high-profile UAW election in Alabama over a digital media-heavy and organizing-light model, he has increasingly relied on Furman to work his contacts in the press. </p> | |
| <p>In June, Barofsky filed a complaint in court asking a federal judge to order the UAW to hand over more documents. A rash of negative headlines appeared about the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>Then, a story relying on one anonymous source appeared accusing Barofsky, who had served as a monitor investigating Credit Suisse for hiding Nazi money, of having a Zionist bias.</p> | |
| <p>The UAW’s social media influencer allies kicked into high gear to brand Barofsky a Zionist, one who was upset over the UAW’s position on Gaza and was retaliating by investigating Fain’s controversial purges. The reporting mentioned nothing about the court-ordered survey of hundreds of UAW employees that showed widespread fear of Fain’s purges of allies suspected of disloyalty. </p> | |
| <p>Ryan Grim, the author of the viral hit piece that relied on a single anonymous source, failed to mention one key point: that his top editor was married to the UAW’s Communications Director Jonah Furman.</p> | |
| <p><strong>ADL Threatens UAW with Anti-BDS Lawsuit</strong></p> | |
| <p>In early July, Ryan Grim left <em>The Intercept</em> and launched a new non-profit site called <em>Drop Site News</em> with famed <em>Intercept</em> founder Jeremy Scahill. </p> | |
| <p>The site’s first viral article was entitled,<a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/shock-documents-reveal-the-uaws-federal"> “<strong>The UAW’s federal monitor twice pressured the union to back off its call for Gaza ceasefire, then launched an investigation.” </strong></a></p> | |
| <p>Grim wrote, “Barofsky’s pursuit of Fain has less to do with concerns over union self-dealing and more to do with the politics of Israel-Palestine.” </p> | |
| <p>As evidence, Grim presented a potential legal threat issued by the ADL against the UAW’s Local 7092 at NYU and The New School. UAW activists at the schools had been calling for BDS (Boycott, Disinvestment, and Sanctions) against Israel for the ongoing campaign of genocide that Israel has pursued in Gaza. </p> | |
| <p>New York State’s first-in-the-nation anti-BDS law requires state and local governments to divest from any group engaged in BDS calls. </p> | |
| <p>With the UAW representing public and graduate employees at public universities, the state could be forced to divest from the UAW’s pension and retirement funds, or possibly even not provide dues check-off for the union. New York State law has allowed the state to strip unions of dues check-off if they violate state law. </p> | |
| <p>Having been sent a serious legal threat, Barofsky informed UAW President Shawn Fain of the threat in December and forwarded the letter from the ADL to the International Executive Board (IEB). </p> | |
| <p>“Although this issue is outside of the Monitor’s jurisdiction, we thought it was important to forward the message to the IEB given the serious concerns raised here,” Barofsky wrote in an email to the UAW’s International Executive Board members. “For what it’s worth, as I previously shared with Shawn, similar concerns were raised directly to me shortly after the IEB issued its own ceasefire statement.” </p> | |
| <p>In an International Executive Board meeting attended by top UAW officials, Barofsky again brought up the legal letter from the ADL. Later, one of the UAW’s attorneys objected to Barofsky informing the UAW of the threat from the ADL. </p> | |
| <p>While the 58-year-old veteran labor lawyer Nathaniel Carny,<a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ny-supreme-court-appellate-division/1055449.html"> a felon convicted of conspiracy for obstruction of justice</a>, has played a key role leading the legal department, it was the much younger 36-year-old Jewish attorney, Benjamin Dictor, who sent a letter to Barofsky.</p> | |
| <p>“We ask that such respect be mutual and that your Office be respectful of the guardrails on your role and refrain from any further communications of the sort discussed in this email,”<a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/shock-documents-reveal-the-uaws-federal"> wrote Dictor in an email to Barofsky on February 23, obtained by <em>Drop Site News</em>. </a></p> | |
| <p>After Dictor’s email, Barofsky never mentioned the letter that he received from the ADL.</p> | |
| <p><strong>Ryan Grim Doesn’t Disclose That His Editor is Married to UAW Communications Director </strong></p> | |
| <p>On February 29, the <em>Detroit Free Press</em> broke the news that<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/02/29/uaw-shakeup-leads-to-reassignments-amid-criticism-of-a-new-leader/72780590007/"> UAW Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock had been demoted from most of her assignments as a labor leader</a> in the UAW. The same day, Barofsky sent a letter to the UAW asking for information about the demotion of UAW’s second-ranking officer. </p> | |
| <p>According to Grim, Barofsky’s investigation of Mock’s demotion came as direct retaliation for the union’s support of a ceasefire in Gaza. </p> | |
| <p>“On February 29, just six days after the UAW sent its letter to Barofsky complaining about his improper lobbying, Barofsky sent the UAW a sweeping demand for documents, saying he was opening an investigation into Fain over a dispute Fain had with the Secretary-Treasurer,” wrote Grim. </p> | |
| <p>However, Labor law experts, including<a href="https://www.slu.edu/law/faculty/michael-duff.php"> anti-Zionist ones like the University of St. Louis’s Mike Duff,</a> say that Barofsky, as a lawyer, may have had merit in forwarding a potential legal threat from the ADL to the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>“I think forwarding a letter from the ADL out of concern that the union risked violating the anti-BDS law (leaving questions of constitutionality to one side) arguably fell within the monitor’s legal-ethical duty,” said Duff. </p> | |
| <p>Some within the UAW have been pushing for the union to support BDS. However, concerns about legal and financial consequences have led to UAW International Executive Board members voting down BDS resolutions so far.</p> | |
| <p>If the UAW, in its own international executive debates, is worried about the legal and financial consequences of BDS, why would it be strange for the UAW’s federal monitor to forward a legal threat from the ADL, a Zionist organization known for suing critics of Zionism? </p> | |
| <p>Grim wrote in his article that “Barfosky also asked for ‘any and all emails, text messages, and instant messages’ sent between Fain, his top deputies, and his lawyers, from February 12 through February 23, 2024. That covers pretty much the exact time the UAW and Barofsky were jockeying over the ADL’s complaint about their call for a ceasefire.” </p> | |
| <p>However, nowhere does Grim mention that Barofsky’s investigation was launched by the complaint filed by the UAW Secretary-Treasurer. Clearly, union members would want to know why the #2 elected union officials were demoted. </p> | |
| <p>University of St. Louis labor law professor Mike Duff says it’s hard to see Grim establish that Baforsky engaged in punitive measures against the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>“It is a pretty vague threat. I can’t understand what the union was being threatened with since the monitor could already ask for anything he wanted related to his function,” says Duff. </p> | |
| <p>The UAW did not return multiple requests for comment for this story. </p> | |
| <p>Barofsky has denied ever expressing his views on Palestine. The evidence against him is merely that he forwarded a letter from the Anti-Defamation League, a controversial group that has sometimes stretched definitions of antisemitism to include anti-Zionism. </p> | |
| <p>“This false account is offensive and an obvious attempt to distract attention from the most recent report,”<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/business/uaw-monitor-investigation-shawn-fain.html"> Barofsky told the <em>New York Times</em>.</a> “We have adhered to standard norms of a monitorship in referring complaints to union leadership.”</p> | |
| <p>No evidence exists tying Barofsky to Zionist groups or expressing Zionist beliefs beyond him fulfilling his legal duty to forward the lawsuit threat from the ADL. </p> | |
| <p>However, Fain’s allies on social media have repeatedly pointed to Barofsky being praised by the World Jewish Congress for his work as a federal monitor of Credit Suisse, investigating the bank’s role in hiding Nazi money stolen from Jews. </p> | |
| <p>Progressive activist and author Matt Stoller, who is Jewish, says that he detests the ADL and feels they manipulate antisemitism to support Israel’s horrific war. </p> | |
| <p>As someone who was a staffer on Capitol Hill during the bailout, he says that the attack on Barofsky is a “smokescreen” designed to smear Barofsky for speaking out against the purges that Fain has initiated within his union. </p> | |
| <p>“I worked with him during the financial crisis and he showed immense integrity in standing up to the biggest bank in the world as well as a lot of corrupt people in the Obama Administration,” says Stoller.</p> | |
| <p>Barofsky was heavily smeared by the Obama Administration and faced threats that his role as special inspector general of TARP would be defunded. </p> | |
| <p>“He was very honest under immense pressure and it would be very hard for me to imagine that he would be doing something unethical here. I’ve never seen him do that and I’ve seen him under some pretty intense pressure.” </p> | |
| <p>Afterward, Barofsky published a book in 2012 titled<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bailout-Account-Washington-Abandoned-Rescuing/dp/1451684932"> “Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street</a>”, which was a widely read <em>New York Times</em> bestseller. </p> | |
| <p>The book was a gripping account detailing how the Obama Administration attempted to retaliate against him for accurately reporting on the Bailout as special inspector general. </p> | |
| <p>“I thought that if there was ever going to be a political figure that would take on the interests of Wall Street, it was going to be President Obama. And that just didn’t happen,”<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcMWc7RPNxI"> Barofsky told Bill Moyers in a widely watched interview in 2012.</a> “It was the exact opposite of that… He had the same ideology as Secretary Geithner and, frankly, the same ideology as a lot of those people who came from Wall Street.”</p> | |
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| <p>Barofsky’s forwarding of the ADL’s threat occurred in February. So, why would the UAW wait till they were in trouble for not turning over documents to raise this issue?</p> | |
| <p>Furthermore, if Barofsky did engage in political interference, the federal judge has the power to remove him from the case. Given that parties in federal monitorship often record meetings, why would Barofsky risk losing his federal monitorship by bringing this issue up? </p> | |
| <p>Currently, it’s the word of Neil Barofsky, who would face severe legal penalties if he was lying, versus just one anonymous source, who spoke to a reporter, whose editor was married to the Communications Director of the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>The UAW’s own legal team has a checkered past, which would lead one to doubt their credibility.</p> | |
| <p>Nathaniel Charny, one of the top lawyers at UAW, who’s responsible for helping to steer their legal strategy, was<a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ny-supreme-court-appellate-division/1055449.html"> convicted of conspiracy to engage in obstruction of justice by the federal monitor of the Teamsters in 1998</a>. </p> | |
| <p>Charny cooperated with federal authorities in their investigation and was able to <a href="https://drblookupportal.judiciary.state.nj.us/DocumentHandler.ashx?document_id=1053825">keep his law license after an 18-month license suspension as punishment. </a></p> | |
| <p>The younger Jewish lawyer Benjamin Dictor, who wrote a letter complaining about Barofsky’s forwarding of the legal threat from the ADL, is also in Barofsky’s crosshairs. Barofsky has asked the federal judge for Dictor’s and other UAW’s lawyer’s emails and correspondence, which Dictor has resisted. </p> | |
| <p>After taking over as counsel of the New York NewsGuild, Dictor faced criticism from <em>New York Times</em> reporters for not presenting a yearly budget of legal expenses.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/003-705-LM2-09_30_2020-1.pdf">An analysis by Payday Report<em> </em>of federal Department of Labor financial records</a> in July 2021 showed that legal costs doubled in the first year after he took over as the union’s counsel. </p> | |
| <p>In 2020 alone,<a href="https://paydayreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/003-705-LM2-09_30_2020-1.pdf"> the union spent $620,040 on outside legal costs</a> instead of hiring a much cheaper in-house counsel — nearly doubling<a href="https://paydayreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/003-705-LM2-09_30_2019-2.pdf"> the $335,564 spent by the New York NewsGuild in 2019</a>. Even pro-union labor law experts say that kind of union spending on outside legal counsel was excessive for a union local of only 4,200 members. </p> | |
| <p>Payday Report asked Ryan Grim why he had not revealed that his top editor and co-founder of his site, Nausicaa Renner, was married to the UAW Communications Director. </p> | |
| <p>“I don’t think you understand how conflicts of interest work,” said Grim, and that it was “widely known” in the journalism industry.</p> | |
| <p>How would a rank-and-file UAW member reading Grim’s article know this unless the conflict of interest was disclosed directly within the article, a fact that may have influenced his reporting? </p> | |
| <p>Grim claimed that his publication’s founding editor, Renner, wasn’t directly involved in the granular work of editing the final article. However, as the publication’s founding editor, she still allowed it to be published on her site without revealing her husband was the UAW’s Communications Director. </p> | |
| <p>Grim repeatedly refused to answer questions about whether or not he worked with her husband. </p> | |
| <p>Over a period of three weeks, I attempted to engage Grim and set up an interview with him to discuss this. He refused to answer most of my questions. Still, he did threaten to sue me if I got any facts wrong about how the founding editor of his publication was married to the UAW’s Communication Director. </p> | |
| <p>“Do not defame my editor, we’ll take it seriously. If your story is fair and accurate, great, but you’re on notice,” Grim texted me. </p> | |
| <p>Every journalist’s background and family connections shape the way they report, and it’s important that they disclose this information. </p> | |
| <p>For 17 years as a labor reporter, I have always disclosed that<a href="https://www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feature/2021/a-life-in-ue-director-of-organization-gene-elk-retiring-after-44-years"> my father, Gene Elk, is the retired Director of the Organization of the United Electrical Workers (UE</a>). As a Jewish union leader,<a href="https://www.ueunion.org/political-action/2015/BDS"> he worked to pass the first BDS resolution passed by any union in the country back in 2015</a></p> | |
| <p>Even when<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/02/17/organized-labors-future-in-the-south/sweetheart-deals-hurt-labor"> writing for the <em>New York Times</em> about how corruption in previous UAW administrations sunk a union drive at Volkswagen in Chattanooga</a> in 2014, I revealed that my mother had been a UAW activist when she worked at Volkswagen in Western PA in the 1980s. </p> | |
| <p>For 11 years, I traveled back and forth to cover three major UAW attempts at their plant in Chattanooga because, as the son of an autoworker, I knew how important it was for rank-and-file autoworkers to have accurate coverage. </p> | |
| <p>Following the historic union victory, the UAW has had an opportunity to organize non-union plants. Still, since the victory at Chattanooga, the UAW has stumbled, losing a narrow union election at Mercedes in Alabama. </p> | |
| <p>With news of the purges and fear of intimidation within the UAW, one can’t help but wonder if the infighting with the UAW is hurting their ability to take advantage of a historic moment to organize in the South. </p> | |
| <p>As federal monitor Neil Barofsky repeatedly warned, a culture of retaliation within the UAW could hurt the union’s ability to achieve its goals. </p> | |
| <p>“If left unchecked, these issues will inevitably impede the union’s efforts to create a culture of compliance. No matter how strong its architecture of policies and procedures, the union cannot detect and prevent malfeasance, financial or otherwise, if such a sizable portion of its employees fear speaking up when they see it,” wrote Barofsky in July. “Divisions within the Union are also having a negative impact on Union morale and, if left unaddressed, could further drag down the Union’s pace of reform.” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/610844f6010cdc16a11b15aa/t/66918e47d5ab512d263e0865/1720815176340/UAW+Monitor+Tenth+Report_07-12+%5Bfilestamped%5D.pdf"><em>The full 124 page report by the federal monitor can be read here</em></a>.</p> | |
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| <title>Philly AFL-CIO Backs Shapiro for VP – Paris Olympic Host Committee Hotel Workers Strike – Detroit Bagel Workers Walk Out over Zionist Owner</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/philly-afl-cio-backs-shapiro-for-vp-paris-olympic-host-committee-hotel-workers-strike-detroit-bagel-workers-walk-out-over-zionist-owner/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 00:23:54 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where allies of Josh Shapiro are rallying union support as he competes to be Kamala Harris’ Vice Presidential candidate. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">Donate to help us keep covering the presidential election in key battleground states. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Philly AFL-CIO Backs Shapiro for VP</strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier this week, Payday reported that some teachers unions in Pennsylvania were upset that Shapiro had supported tax vouchers to send kids to private schools. Now, Shapiro’s allies in organized labor are rallying behind him. </p> | |
| <p>Today, the Philadelphia AFL-CIO endorsed Shapiro for Vice President. </p> | |
| <p>“At this moment in history, the role of unions is more critical than ever, and we take seriously the commitment of our elected officials to support and promote the union way of life. No one has been more steadfast in their commitment to working people than Josh Shapiro,” <a href="https://www.politicspa.com/philly-labor-unions-back-shapiro-for-vp/137623/">said the Philadelphia AFL-CIO in a statement. </a></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.politicspa.com/philly-labor-unions-back-shapiro-for-vp/137623/">For more, check out PoliticsPA. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Detroit Institute of Bagels Workers Quit Over Zionist Boss</strong></p> | |
| <p>In Detroit, workers at the Detroit Institute of Bagels (DIB) have quit en masse after the bagel shop was sold to Zionist owners. From the Detroit Free Press: </p> | |
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| <p>“The emails revealed that some workers were not comfortable working for Kafka, because of his Prince Concepts business, his past support of Israel (Kafka is Jewish), which is embroiled in a controversial war in Gaza, and the “transparency in the ‘sale.’ “After an initial email introduction from Newman to the existing DIB employees, Kafka made several attempts to meet with staffers but was met with reluctance. Early emails went unanswered and later, some employees’ responses indicated that they were unavailable to meet in a group setting and unwilling to sit down one-on-one with new leadership.</p> | |
| <p>When Kafka suggested the team present a new meeting time of their convenience, the resignations began pouring in.</p> | |
| <p>Since the news of the DIB closing, Delia Diedrich, a DIB line and prep cook who is among the DIB employees who resigned, said the group has received “incredible support across the bar,” including job offers within the restaurant industry and other industries. A fund is also set up through the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/orendacoalition?igsh=czdoYTM4dG03bGpq">Orenda Coalition</a> to support the employees who resigned.”</p> | |
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| <p><a href="https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/dining/2024/07/26/detroit-institute-of-bagels-closed-workers-quit-business-sold/74545280007/#lz326v6qbqn6zx89njh">For more, check out the Detroit Free Press. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Staff at Luxury Olympic Hotel Strike </strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, as the Olympics start in Paris, staff at a luxury hotel, Hôtel du Collectionneur, where top Olympic officials are staying, are on strike. From the Guardian: </p> | |
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| <p>“Union Départementale CGT Paris (UD CGT), a trade union representing the workers, posted a video from inside the hotel showing around a dozen staff lining one of the corridors used by guests. Some waved the union’s flags and others held notices with slogans such as “Luxury hotel, poverty wages” and “Give us back our social assets”.</p> | |
| <p>According to UD CGT, workers at Hôtel du Collectionneur have not been given a pay rise since 2017. It claims that, despite a dividend of over £8m being handed to shareholders this year, no breakthrough has been made in improving the financial position of its staff.</p> | |
| <p>The Guardian understands that the offer of a 2% salary increase, made on Wednesday during the latest of five meetings in a negotiation with UD CGT that began in June, was rejected and led to the strike. Hôtel du Collectionneur is thought to be an outlier among Paris’s luxury hotels in not having reached agreements with its workers before the Olympics.</p> | |
| <p>Central to the workers’ demands is a “13th month”, which is a common salary addition in France. It is essentially a bonus, or variable pay structure, in which an extra month’s payment is received annually in December. While not mandatory, it is viewed as standard in the high-end hotel sector. The stance among Hôtel Du Collectionneur’s strikers is that the total of their demands represents only one 20th of its contract with the IOC.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/25/olympic-breakfast-off-the-menu-staff-at-ioc-luxury-paris-hotel-go-on-strike">For more, check out the Guardian</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>News & Headlines Elsewhere</strong></p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://www.musicalartists.org/public-statement-from-the-dancers-of-dallas-black-dance-theatre-can-you-hear-us-now-leadership/"><strong>Dallas Black Dance Theatre retaliating against recently unionized dancers</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.columbusjewishnews.com/news/local_news/columbus-jcc-preschool-teachers-attempt-to-formally-unionize/article_a169c512-4933-11ef-b9fa-cb52ccad6b9f.html"><strong>Columbus Jewish Community Center workers complain of union busting</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://onlabor.org/unpacking-jd-vances-labor-record/"><strong>Unpacking JD Vance’s Labor Record</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/07/26/union-striking-minneapolis-park-workers-tentative-contract-agreement"><strong>Minneapolis park workers reach tentative agreement</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-24/spanish-language-newspapers-santa-ana-decline"><strong>LA Times takes a deep look at how closing of Spanish-language newspapers is affecting many California communities</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/west-virginia-starbucks-location-votes-to-unionize/"><strong>Finally, a rural West Virginia Starbucks that I passed last week on vacation has now unionized</strong></a></li> | |
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| <title>PA Teachers Union Not Thrilled with Josh Shapiro – Biden Asked to Intervene in NJ Transit Deal – Video Game Performers to Go on Strike</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/pa-teachers-union-not-thrilled-with-josh-shapiro-biden-asked-to-intervene-in-nj-transit-deal-video-game-performers-to-go-on-strike/</link> | |
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| <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:04:07 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where some major political forces are raising questions about the Vice Presidential chances of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, but first some big news out of Wheeling, West Virginia </p> | |
| <p><strong>John Russell Nominated for an Emmy for East Palestine Work </strong></p> | |
| <p>Our good friend John Russell of <em>The Holler</em> was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the East Palestine chemical train disaster. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URVD0M_m69I">Check out his Emmmy nominated work here. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>PA Teachers Union Not Thrilled with Josh Shapiro </strong></p> | |
| <p>One of the names at the top of any Vice Presidential list is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. While Shapiro has garnered support from many Pennsylvania unions, he has angered teachers unions with his support of school vouchers in last year’s Pennsylvania budget. </p> | |
| <p>Recently, Governor Shapiro pushed for a school voucher program as part of Pennsylvania’s state budget. With the Democratic National Committee firmly opposed to vouchers, Shapiro sought and was granted an exemption that allowed him to work on pushing vouchers in the state. </p> | |
| <p>“We shouldn’t even think about sending taxpayer money to private and religious schools when our focus should be on fixing Pennsylvania’s unconstitutional public school funding system,” <a href="https://www.witf.org/2024/05/08/school-voucher-program-passes-out-of-committee/">Pennsylvania State Education Association President Aaron Chapin said in a statement opposing Shapiro’s call for vouchers, which passed this July. </a></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/184151/one-vice-president-ruin-democratic-unity-josh-shapiro">For more on the progressive case against Shaprio, check out <em>The New Republic</em>. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Mark Kelly Flip Flops on PRO Act</strong></p> | |
| <p>As Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona is considered for the Vice Presidential spot, he has flipped from opposing the PRO (Protecting the Right to Organize) Act to supporting it. From Dave Jamieson at HuffPost: </p> | |
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| <p>“Why would the Democrats even consider a senator for the vice presidency if the senator doesn’t support the PRO Act?” John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union, told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/labor-unions-unite-kamala-harris-concern-emerges-potential/story?id=112198865">ABC News</a>.</p> | |
| <p>But Kelly on Wednesday made clear in an interview with HuffPost that he would support the bill if it came to the Senate floor, affirming enthusiastic support for labor unions. He is not listed as a co-sponsor on the Senate’s <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/567/cosponsors">most recent version</a>.</p> | |
| <p>“Unions loom large in our life, and I’m supportive of the PRO Act,” Kelly said, recounting how when his mother, a police officer, was injured, her union helped her recover.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-kelly-endorses-pro-act_n_66a1406ce4b04ed80d3a2a86">For more, check out HuffPost</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Video Game Performers to Go on Strike </strong></p> | |
| <p>The video game industry makes more than the film and music industries combined. Increasingly, workers have been organizing in the industry and now the actors, who play characters in video games, are going on strike.</p> | |
| <p>The strike comes after the union has been unable to agree on a contact for 2 years. The key sticking issue is artificial intelligence replacing the actors. </p> | |
| <p>“Frankly, it’s stunning that these video game studios haven’t learned anything from the lessons of last year – that our members can and will stand up and demand fair and equitable treatment with respect to A.I., and the public supports us in that,” said Duncan Crabtree-Apple. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://deadline.com/2024/07/sag-aftra-strike-video-game-companies-1236020355/">For more, check out Deadline. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Biden Asked to Intervene to Prevent NJ Transit Strike</strong></p> | |
| <p>Last year, President Biden used federal powers to intervene and stop a freight railroad workers strike. Now, Biden is being asked to intervene to stop a strike of transit workers in New Jersey. </p> | |
| <p>“We know they requested for the President to form a PEB,” Mark Wallace, BLE&T first vice president, told NJ Advance Media. “They have formally requested it.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.nj.com/news/2024/07/nj-transit-almost-on-brink-of-a-rail-strike-asks-biden-to-intervene-union-says.html"><strong>For more, check out NJ Advance Media. </strong></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>News & Links Elsewhere</strong></p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/us/politics/uaw-harris-endorsement.html"><strong>U.A.W. holds off on endorsing Harris</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11996902/thousands-of-san-francisco-hotel-workers-ready-for-strike-vote"><strong>Thousands of San Francisco hotel workers ready for strike vote</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/oxfam-report-low-wage-workers-still-make-up-23percent-of-us-workers.html"><strong> The number of low-wage U.S. workers is dropping—but 23% still make less than $17/hr</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jose-cuervo-tequila-plant-explosion-fire-mexico-workers-dead/"><strong>Jose Cuervo tequila plant explosion, fire in Mexico kill at least 5 workers</strong></a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/world-of-warcraft-development-team-unionizes-1235951068/">Finally, ‘World of Warcraft’ development team unionizes In notable step for game worker organizing efforts</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p><strong>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><strong>[email protected]</strong></a><strong> </strong></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/"><strong>Donate to help us cover the Presidential election in the battleground states</strong></a><strong>. Please, if you can, </strong><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/"><strong>sign up as one of our 774 recurring donors today. </strong></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Love & Solidarity, </strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>Melk</strong></p> | |
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| <title>6 Major Unions Call for Biden to End Military Aid to Israel – 250 Microsoft Video Game Employees Score First – Wounded Lebanese Journalist Honored</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/6-major-union-call-for-biden-to-end-military-aid-to-israel-250-microsoft-video-game-employees-score-first-wounded-lebanese-journalist-honored/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:33:40 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I’m getting back into the swing of things after taking a week off for a vacation in the New River Gorge National Park. Big thanks to all of our readers, who donated to our vacation fund. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/836/the-big-rethink/act-one-16">Be sure to check the segment on <em>This American Life</em> that cites Payday Report. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Six Major Unions Call for Biden to End Military Aid to Israel</strong></p> | |
| <p>While unions have quickly lined behind Vice President Kamala Harris’ run for President, they still have concerns over the Biden-Harris Administration policy on Gaza. Several unions plan to protest Netanyahu’s visit on Wednesday. </p> | |
| <p>A group of 6 major unions including the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), American Postal Workers Union (APWU), International Union of Painters (IUPAT), National Education Association (NEA), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Auto Workers (UAW), and United Electrical Workers (UE), sent their letter to Biden today. </p> | |
| <p>“Mr. President, the time to act decisively to end this war is now. Stopping US military aid to Israel is the quickest and most sure way to do so, it is what U.S. law demands, and it will show your commitment to securing a lasting peace in the region,” t<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q5RpuWQLGZT9gdQfWMwtIoNyjdEDKbf6yD7-iie2sxY/edit">he unions said in an unprecedented letter to Biden.</a> </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q5RpuWQLGZT9gdQfWMwtIoNyjdEDKbf6yD7-iie2sxY/edit?usp=sharing">A copy of the full letter can be read here </a></p> | |
| <p><em>(Full disclosure: My father </em><a href="https://paydayreport.com/happy-fathers-day-to-the-union-dads-like-my-dad/"><em>Gene Elk is a retired national officer of the UE)</em></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>250 Microsoft Video Games Unionize in First Wall-to-Wall Union</strong></p> | |
| <p>At Microsoft’s Bethesda studio, 241 video game workers unionized in the first wall-to-wall union campaign at a major game studio. Previous campaigns had only unionized certain skilled tech workers, but this union represents all employees at Bethesda Game studio. </p> | |
| <p>“It is clear that every worker can benefit from bringing democracy into the workplace and securing a protected voice on the job,” <a href="https://mashable.com/article/bethesda-game-studios-workers-unionize">said Senior System Designer Mandi Parker in a press release.</a> “We’re thrilled to get down to brass tacks and win a fair contract, proving that our unity is a source of real power to positively shape our working conditions, our lives, and the company as a whole.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://mashable.com/article/bethesda-game-studios-workers-unionize">For more, check out Mashable. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Lebanese Journalist Wounded in Israeli Strike Carries Olympic Torch</strong></p> | |
| <p>In October, a Reuters journalist was killed and six other journalists were wounded in an October attack by Israel in Lebanon. </p> | |
| <p>Now, Christina Assi, a journalist from Agence France Presse, who lost part of her leg in the attack, is carrying the Olympic torch, but from a wheelchair. Al-Jazeera has the story:</p> | |
| <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> | |
| <p>“I wish Issam was here to see this. And I wish what happened today was not because we were struck by two rockets,” Assi told The Associated Press, struggling to hold back her tears.</p> | |
| <p>“I wish I could have honoured journalists this way while walking and in my best health.”</p> | |
| <p>Al Jazeera, AFP, and Reuters have all accused Israel of targeting their journalists, saying that their employees were positioned far from where the clashes with Hezbollah took place and that their vehicles were clearly marked as belonging to the press.</p> | |
| <p>Rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say the Israeli attack was deliberate and should be investigated as a war crime. On Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists, a media watchdog, said at least 108 journalists, most of them Palestinians, have been killed since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/21/lebanese-journalist-wounded-in-israeli-strike-carries-olympic-torch">For more, check out Al-Jazeera. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>News & Headlines Elsewhere</strong></p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2024/07/22/gm-halts-production-wentzville-truck-plant-lear-strike/74503375007/">GM stops assembly at Missouri truck plant after UAW strike at Lear seat factory</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/business/wnba-cba-collective-bargaining-agreement.html?searchResultPosition=2">W.N.B.A. Players, bargaining power soaring, seek expert Advice on labor deal</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/07/uf-dining-hall-workers-seek-unionization">University of Florida dining hall workers seek unionization</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/23/amazon-gmb-union-coventry-warehouse-vote">British Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Coventry</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/southern-california-amazon-workers-strike-at-one-of-companys-major-west-coast-air-hubs/">Amazon workers at Southern California air hub walk off the job </a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/07/20/g-s1-9028/osha-construction-safety-trench-collapse">Finally, NPR has a long look at how trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the U.S. over the last decade</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>All right, folks, that’s all for today. We will have more tomorrow. Keep sending story ideas, tips, comments, and complaints to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected] </a></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">Donate to help us cover labor’s fight for 2024, especially here in Western PA.</a> (This election season,<a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/"> a grant from Illumine Service Foundation</a> matches all donations up to $20,000.) </p> | |
| <p>Thanks again for all the support – we will return in a few hours. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Love & Solidarity,</strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>Melk</strong></p> | |
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| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:08:12 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>The hit NPR show <em>This American Life</em> from WBEZ hired me an editorial consultant for their coverage of Teamster President Sean O’Brien’s speech at the RNC. </p> | |
| <p>It was an interesting story of how the Teamsters are playing both sides of the aisles as the Democrat’s chances of retaining the White House remain in doubt. </p> | |
| <p> <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/836/the-big-rethink/act-one-16">Listen to the segment “The Fate of the Union” that aired this weekend. </a></p> | |
| <p>Ira Glass even thanked Payday Report on air – <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/836/the-big-rethink/act-one-16">listen here! </a></p> | |
| <p>Payday may be a small publication, but we have a big impact on the national conversation. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/"><em>The Washington Post</em> credited us as being the first publication to systematically track the pandemic-era strike wave</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/business/media/labor-unions-media-coverage.html">, <em>The New York Times</em> called us a labor publication with “new energy,” </a>and now<a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/836/the-big-rethink/act-one-16"> our work has been featured on NPR’s hit show <em>This American Life</em>.</a></p> | |
| <p>Our work has big impact due to the support of our readers. As a result of our matching donation offer from the Illumine Service Foundation, all donations will be matched between now and the election. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">Donate to Help Us Cover the Fight for Unions Against Trump in the Battleground States</a></p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>Podcast: Payday Report Dave Weigel Talks What Summer Lee Can Teach America</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-dave-weigel-talks-what-summer-lee-can-teach-america/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Payday Report Podcast]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:30:02 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Semafor’s Dave Weigel talks with Mike Elk about how Congresswoman Summer Lee was able to cruise to a landslide victory against AIPAC will other candidates struggles and were defeated by them. ]]></description> | |
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| <p>Semafor’s Dave Weigel talks with Mike Elk about how Congresswoman Summer Lee was able to cruise to a landslide victory against AIPAC will other candidates struggles and were defeated by them. </p> | |
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| <title>Teamsters Won’t Endorse Biden as O’Brien Speaks at RNC – Shuler Calls out JD Vance as Fake Union</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/teamsters-wont-endorse-biden-as-obrein-speaks-at-rnc/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:22:17 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I am getting ready to take a short vacation down towards New River Gorge in West Virginia. We will have a lot more next week, but wanted to give yinz a quick look at what’s happening this week at the RNC. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Teamsters Refusing to Back Biden</strong> </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/blow-biden-teamsters-consider-no-endorsement-2024-race-2024-07-15/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">On Monday, Reuters broke the news that the 1.3 million-member Teamsters union is holding off on endorsing Biden for now. </a>The decision was seen as President O’Brien “hedging his bets” in case Biden loses and hoping to have a sympathetic ear. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/blow-biden-teamsters-consider-no-endorsement-2024-race-2024-07-15/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reuters reports that O’Brien was upset about Biden’s denying a meeting with the union to discuss the Yellow Corp Trucking company bankruptcy with Biden</a>, which could lead to a layoff of 30,000 union members. </p> | |
| <p>The announcement came as Teamsters President Sean O’Brien made a controversial speech at the RNC as Donald Trump accepted the nomination.</p> | |
| <p>“I don’t care about getting criticized. It’s an honor to be the first Teamster in our 121-year history to address the Republican National Convention,” <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/jamieson/status/1813038645013578127" rel="noreferrer noopener">O’Brien told naysayers in the labor movement as he took the podium at the RNC on Monday. </a></p> | |
| <p>O’Brien is facing criticism within his union over donating money to the RNC. In January, the Teamsters gave their <a target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/21/teamsters-trump-biden-union/__;!!F0Stn7g!HEAANGRyXrrZZtS0QtvU2851KGCmvCOcS7jFYLAWt9nIy-YppoRrmieMn4fNS_lm2eA-nAsnXp_H8T19LUyF_w$" rel="noreferrer noopener">first donation</a> in 20 years to the Republican National Committee’s convention fund.</p> | |
| <p>“It legitimizes Donald Trump in the eyes of workers,”<a target="_blank" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/15/teamsters-president-rnc-speech-trump-00168473" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Tom Leedham, a retired Teamsters leader who ran for union president against Jimmy Hoffa Jr., told Politico. </a>“He’s claiming that he is the president of working people. It helps him with that image.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/teamster-prez-threatens-copyright-infringement-suit-against-dissident-website-50000-argentine-healthcare-workers-strike-20000-cal-state-undergrad-workers-unionize/" rel="noreferrer noopener">When Teamsters union members began to complain on the site, </a><em><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/teamster-prez-threatens-copyright-infringement-suit-against-dissident-website-50000-argentine-healthcare-workers-strike-20000-cal-state-undergrad-workers-unionize/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Teamsters Link</a></em><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/teamster-prez-threatens-copyright-infringement-suit-against-dissident-website-50000-argentine-healthcare-workers-strike-20000-cal-state-undergrad-workers-unionize/" rel="noreferrer noopener">, owned by Leedham and two longtime Teamsters operatives</a>, O’Brien threatened to sue the website for copyright infringement for using the Teamsters name. O’Brien used an anti-union law firm to make the threat. </p> | |
| <p>“<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nixonpeabody.com/capabilities/practices/labor-employment/labor-relations" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nixon Peabody</a> is a law firm that brags about their ability to bust unions. They have impressive clients, including Donald J Trump, a list of union-hating corporations, anti-union politicians and Sean O’Brien and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters,” wrote the angered owners. </p> | |
| <p>“Nixon Peabody on behalf of the IBT is claiming ownership of the word Teamster and virtually any extension of that word,” wrote the site’s owners. “On behalf of the IBT they’re demanding <em>Teamsterlink</em> cease and desist, threatening legal action knowing we could never match the resources of the IBT. This claim is being made now even though there are literally dozens of examples of the word “Teamster” and the Teamster logo being used for decades throughout the US and Canada.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/15/teamsters-president-rnc-speech-trump-00168473" rel="noreferrer noopener">According to Politico, an internal straw poll by the Teamsters showed 46% for Biden and 37% for Trump. </a></p> | |
| <p>O’Brien campaigned as a reformer but has been a maverick, cutting deals with Republicans. He angered many in labor when he praised Trump’s selection of Senator JD Vance for Vice President. </p> | |
| <p>“He has been right there on all of our issues,”<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/teamster-prez-threatens-copyright-infringement-suit-against-dissident-website-50000-argentine-healthcare-workers-strike-20000-cal-state-undergrad-workers-unionize/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> said O’Brien on Fox News, praising Trump’s VP pick of Vance. </a></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/teamster-prez-threatens-copyright-infringement-suit-against-dissident-website-50000-argentine-healthcare-workers-strike-20000-cal-state-undergrad-workers-unionize/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch O’Brein’s interview praising Vance on Fox News. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>AFL-CEO Prez Say Vance Pretends to be Pr-union</strong></p> | |
| <p>In 2023, a clip of JD Vance showing up to a picket line at Chrysler in Toledo went viral when 78 Toledo Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur asked him if it was his first time showing up to a picket line. <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1812949198314348744" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Watch Kaptur’s picket line joke on JD Vance here). </a></p> | |
| <p>However, nearly all unions were unanimous in denouncing Vance. </p> | |
| <p>“Sen. JD Vance likes to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3P73uHFKTk" rel="noreferrer noopener">play</a> union supporter on the picket line, but his record proves that to be a sham,” wrote AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler in a statement full of hyperlinks. “He has introduced <a target="_blank" href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-vance-reintroduce-bill-to-empower-worker-voice/" rel="noreferrer noopener">legislation</a> to allow bosses to bypass their workers’ unions with phony corporate-run unions, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/20/jd-vance-auto-strike-uaw" rel="noreferrer noopener">disparaged striking UAW members</a> while collecting <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?cycle=2022&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00783142&contributor_name=C00076810&line_number=F3-11C" rel="noreferrer noopener">hefty donations</a> from one of the major auto companies, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/15/mr-maga-goes-to-washington-00147054" rel="noreferrer noopener">opposed</a> the landmark Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.” </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-president-liz-shuler-responds-trump-vice-president-announcement" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out the AFL-CIO’s breakdown of how JD Vance is no fan of organized labor. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>All right, folks, I’m going on vacation this week. We will be back next week. Sending story ideas, tip comments, and hiking trails for New River Gorge to <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </strong></p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>Biden Falsely Claims He Repealed Delaware’s “Right-to-Work” Law in the 1970s (Repeal Occurred in 1949)</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/biden-falsely-claims-he-repealed-delawares-right-to-work-law-in-the-1970s-repeal-occurred-in-1949/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:20:49 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where I stayed up through the night to write a special newsletter.  In 2019, Payday Report was there when Biden...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I stayed up through the night to write a special newsletter. </p> | |
| <p>In 2019,<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/labors-old-guard-struggles-to-show-up-for-biden-in-pittsburgh/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Payday Report was there when Biden launched his bid for the Democratic nomination for President at the old Teamsters temple in Pittsburgh.</a> Yesterday, Biden returned to a “House of Labor” in an attempt to save his nomination as the Democrat’s candidate for President. </p> | |
| <p>While Biden impressed many labor leaders, he falsely claimed that he worked to repeal “right-to-work” in Delaware as a young 30-year-old Senator in the 1970s.</p> | |
| <p>Contrary to Biden’s claim, the anti-union law was actually repealed in Delaware in 1949, when Biden was only seven years old. </p> | |
| <p>Our newsletter has more on Biden’s big day with labor, Congresswoman Summer Lee backing Kamala Harris, and talk of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro being Biden’s VP. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Biden Falsely Claims He Repealed “Right-to-Work” in Delaware in 1970s in High Profile AFL-CIO Speech. </strong></p> | |
| <p>Yesterday morning did not begin on a positive note for Joe Biden. He woke up to a blistering<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/joe-biden-democratic-nominee.html" rel="noreferrer noopener"> New York Times op-ed from George Clooney, a prolific Democratic fundraiser who organized a massive fundraiser for Biden just three weeks ago.</a></p> | |
| <p>Clooney, the 63-year-old beloved actor and activist, recounted details of his interactions as he watched Biden age over the years. </p> | |
| <p>“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe’ <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/mar/23/us-healthcare-reform-obama-law" rel="noreferrer noopener">big F-ing deal</a>‘ Biden of 2010,”<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/joe-biden-democratic-nominee.html" rel="noreferrer noopener"> wrote Clooney.</a> “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate”. </p> | |
| <p>Around the same time as Clooney’s devastating op-ed hit, legendary long-time Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, 84, was throwing down to Biden on the MSNBC Show “Morning Joe.” </p> | |
| <p>“It’s up to the President to decide if he will run. We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short,” the somber-faced Speaker Emerita remarked. </p> | |
| <p>Given that Pelosi herself was 84 years old, her words carried weight on Biden.</p> | |
| <p>In 2023, after much debate within the Democratic Party, Pelosi decided to step down as the Democratic leader and step into a less strenuous and more ceremonial role as Speaker Emerita. Now, she is warning that it is perhaps time for Biden to step back from a Democratic leadership role as Pelosi had in her 80’s. </p> | |
| <p>On live TV, Pelosi warned that Biden needed to make a decision, and she was trying to encourage naysayers to hold their tongue so the process could be managed. </p> | |
| <p>“I’ve said to everyone — let’s just hold off whatever you’re thinking,” said Pelosi. “Either tell somebody privately, but you don’t have to put that out on the table until we see how we go this week.” </p> | |
| <p><strong>Biden Calls AFL-CIO to Save Nomination</strong></p> | |
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| <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler cries as she explains that unions will always have Biden’s back <a href="https://t.co/Ky7bpHQ2y7">pic.twitter.com/Ky7bpHQ2y7</a></p>— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeElk/status/1811144787657117774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> | |
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| <p>Immediately after Pelosi’s announcement, the televisions in the lobby of the AFL-CIO began blaring, and other Senate and House Democrats went on TV to ask Biden to reconsider remaining the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. </p> | |
| <p>In the ornate George Meany Conference Room, which has a window facing the White House just across Lafayette Park, union staffers and presidential advance team members were setting up for Biden’s make-or-break televised speech in front of the AFL-CIO’s Executive Committee. </p> | |
| <p>Throughout his 4 years, Biden often visited the AFL-CIO, a short block from the White House. His speech at the AFL-CIO was as crucial as the one that he gave yesterday. </p> | |
| <p>Arriving in the executive council room of the AFL-CIO, Biden was showered with hugs, back slaps, and messages from labor leaders telling him to keep up on pushing in the presidential race.</p> | |
| <p>“We just wanna say Mr. President, you support unions, you support working families, you have always had our back,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler as she paused to cry. “We have yours”. </p> | |
| <p>Biden then embraced a crying Shuler as the room full of nearly 100 top union activists shouted their support for Biden. </p> | |
| <p>Noting to the labor leaders that he was taking a break from a historic meeting with 30 heads of state gathered for NATO’s 75th anniversary at their DC conference, Biden made a witty quip calling the AFL-CIO his “Other NATO.” </p> | |
| <p>“We have two strong organizations in America that I look to for our security – one literally and I mean this sincerely is NATO,” said Biden. “And I think of you as my domestic NATO – not a joke – not a joke,” the President emphasized to a flattered room of labor leaders. </p> | |
| <p>“You’re the one beyond me,” said Biden as he began to mumble and stutter. “You know that better than I do. Beyond me, it’s all about whether or not we are going to grow the economy. Whether or not we are going to give working people a shot,” said Biden. </p> | |
| <p>Speaking yesterday to the AFL-CIO’s Executive Council, Biden nostalgically recalled getting involved with labor in Delaware as a young senator. </p> | |
| <p>“When I was a kid back running for Senate when I was 29 years old [in 1972], labor elected me and we were then a ‘right-to-work’ state and we changed it all,” said Biden. </p> | |
| <p>However, Biden could not have been involved in repealing Delaware’s “right-to-work” law in the 1970s. The anti-union law was repealed in 1949, when Biden was only seven years old and living in Scranton, Pennsylvania. </p> | |
| <p>It is not the first time that Biden has made false claims about activism. For decades, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/13/biden-claims-yet-another-arrest-which-theres-little-evidence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Biden claimed falsely that he had been arrested while protesting for civil rights in the 1960s</a>. Biden has also claimed falsely that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/25/bidens-ridiculous-claim-he-was-arrested-trying-see-mandela/">he was arrested while trying to visit Mandela in Soweto. </a></p> | |
| <p>Unlike these previous claim, which seemed easy to cover up, it would have been impossible for the seven-year-old Scranton native to be involved in the 1949 repeal of “right-to-work in Delaware. </p> | |
| <p>Whether Biden misspoke or made false claims about his involvement in Delaware’s “right-to-work” repeal is unclear. The Biden Campaign did not respond to requests for comment.</p> | |
| <p>However, none of the labor leaders questioned Biden’s claim that he helped repeal Delaware’s “right-to-work” law. </p> | |
| <p>Instead, most labor leaders were impressed by the elder’s statements. Few of them had personally interacted with Biden in recent months and found him far more lively and energetic, although stumbling at times than depicted on TV. </p> | |
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| <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"I think of [unions] as my domestic NATO."<br><br>— President Biden, during remarks off-teleprompter in front of AFL-CIO members <a href="https://t.co/VEMwMjUClQ">pic.twitter.com/VEMwMjUClQ</a></p>— The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1811117075416445295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> | |
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| <p><strong>AFL-CIO Unanimously Backs Biden to Stay in Race Despite Closed Door Dissent</strong></p> | |
| <p>Later in the day, behind closed doors with the President’s team, AFL-CIO’s Executive Committee members expressed reservations about Biden’s condition. </p> | |
| <p>However, whatever criticism they stated behind closed doors stayed there as the AFL-CIO Executive Council voted unanimously to make another statement reaffirming their support for Biden. </p> | |
| <p>“We shared stories of the hopes of working people and discussed with the President the importance of unions mobilizing for Election Day,” said the AFL-CIO in a statement. “The President’s fighting spirit was on full display, and he reiterated his deep commitment to workers and our families and to taking on corporate greed. He was that “Scranton Joe” that we all know and love.” </p> | |
| <p>Biden had won labor’s support, and labor leaders, who had spent years desperate for someone like Biden, were excited to once again have his back. </p> | |
| <p>“The labor movement understands, as Joe Biden does, that solidarity is how we win. The message from today’s meeting couldn’t have been clearer: right now, it’s time to come together around a vision of a country,” said the AFL-CIO Executive Committee on Wednesday. “The labor movement is united behind President Biden and Vice President Harris. We urge his party and the American people to join us”. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/09/joe-biden-unions-democrat/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, read “Why are Democrats Sticking with Biden? Ask the Unions” by ace labor reporter Lauren Kaori Gurley of the </a><em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/09/joe-biden-unions-democrat/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Washington Post</a></em>.</p> | |
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| <p><strong>Summer Lee Says Kamala Harris Likely to Be Presidential Nominee if Biden Withdraws</strong></p> | |
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| <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rep. Summer Lee came prepared for questions: <a href="https://t.co/9UXd6n5iIn">pic.twitter.com/9UXd6n5iIn</a></p>— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1810662819928383912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> | |
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| <p>Earlier this week, a photo of Pittsburgh Congresswoman Summer Lee leaving a heated meeting of Congressional Democrats on Tuesday went viral. She was pictured flipping the peace sign as she refused to comment on whether Biden should stay in the race. </p> | |
| <p>A few days prior, founding members of The Squad, including Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Presley, went public with their support for Biden. </p> | |
| <p>Ocasio-Cortez upset many who wanted to replace Biden by telling activists in a viral video on Capitol Hill to simply move on from wanting a different presidential nominee. </p> | |
| <p>“The matter is closed. He had reiterated that this morning. He has reiterated that to the public.<a target="_blank" href="https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Joe Biden</a> is our nominee. He is not leaving this race,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “He is in this race, and I support him.” </p> | |
| <p>Congresswoman Summer Lee, one of 9 members of The Squad, did not close discussion on the matter of replacing Biden. Like Vice President Kamala Harris, Lee attended Howard University and enjoyed a warm relationship with the Vice President, who has attended events with Lee in Pittsburgh. </p> | |
| <p>Late last week, Pittsburgh Congresswoman Summer Lee told Sirius XM’s “Mornings with Zerlina,” hosted by veteran MSBSC reporter Zerlina Maxwell, that she favored Kamala being the nominee if Biden decided not to run. </p> | |
| <p>“If our President decides that this is not the pathway forward for him, then it means that we are going to have to move very quickly. There is not going to be time for a primary,” she said. “[T]he Vice President is the obvious choice because she’s sitting right there as somebody who has been in the White House, as somebody who already has the name recognition, who’s already out on the trail.”</p> | |
| <p><em><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/woodland-hills-alumni-push-summer-lee-across-the-finish-line/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Full Disclosure: I went to a historic mixed-race high school with Congresswoman Lee in the early 2000s</a>.)</em></p> | |
| <p>Lee remarked that she felt Biden needed to do a lot to prove himself as a nominee. </p> | |
| <p>“I don’t think that that reassurance is a speech,” Lee told Maxwell. “I don’t think it’s a rally. I think that reassurance is a continuous presence, it’s a continuous indication that we all understand what’s at stake and why you feel that way. I think that we can’t afford to gaslight folks.”</p> | |
| <p><strong>PA Governor Josh Shapiro Rumored as Top Vice Presidential Pick</strong></p> | |
| <p>Lee also has close ties with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who has questioned Biden’s debate performance. As the Governor of the country’s largest swing state, Shapiro is rumored to be a potential Vice Presidential replacement if Harris were the nominee. </p> | |
| <p>Biden currently trails in Pennsylvania, but the 51-year-old Shapiro recently won the Governor’s race just two years ago by a margin of 56%-41%. He also won two previously close elections as Attorney General. </p> | |
| <p>As Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Shapiro won wide acclaim when he sued the massive hospital chain University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the largest employer in PA, for UPMC refusing to take insurance from a rival hospital chain, Allegheny Health Network (AHN). Over 1 million AHN-insured folks in PA, including myself, were now able to access the state’s largest hospital system, UPMC. </p> | |
| <p>Unions widely praised Shapiro, a frequent guest on picket lines, and won praise for aggressively taking legal action against employers on behalf of unions as the state’s Attorney General. </p> | |
| <p>A self-described progressive Jew from the Philly suburb of Montgomery County, he was first elected to the PA State House in 2004 as a 25-year-old. He was then elected as the first Democrat to ever be elected as commissioner of Montgomery County, the second richest county in Pennsylvania. </p> | |
| <p>Over two decades, Shapiro worked successfully to turn the Philly suburbs from staunch Republican to heavily Democrat baston, whose votes have compensated for the turn to the Republican party in deindustrialized Western PA. </p> | |
| <p><em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.levernews.com/2022-flashback-finding-hope-in-the-2022-midterms/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Check out this great 2022 The Lever profile by David Sirota, who described Josh Shapiro as the “Ted Lasso” of US Politics)</a></em></p> | |
| <p>However, while Shapiro has made a name as a civil rights activist, he is also an ardent Zionist; Shapiro has offended many Palestinians with his racist comments, comparing them to the KKK. </p> | |
| <p>“We have to query whether or not we would tolerate this if this were people dressed up in KKK outfits or KKK regalia making comments about people who are African American in our communities,” Shapiro told CNN in April as pro-Palestinian protests rocked college campuses.</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/4/where-bidens-potential-democratic-replacements-stand-on-the-gaza-war" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more on his Zionist views on Israel as well as other Vice Presidential Candidates, check out Al-Jazeera.</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>All right, folks, that’s all for today. We will have more tomorrow. Keep sending story ideas, tips, comments, and complaints to [email protected] </strong></p> | |
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| <p>Thanks again for all the support – we will return in a few hours. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Love & Solidarity,</strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>Melk </strong></p> | |
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| <title>AFL-CIO Backs Biden as Labor Leaders Stay Silent – Biden Cancels NEA Speech after Union Locks Out Staffers – Teamster Prez to Face Protests at RNC</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/afl-cio-backs-biden-as-labor-leaders-stay-silent-biden-cancels-nea-speech-after-union-locks-out-staffers-teamster-prez-to-face-protests-at-rnc/</link> | |
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| <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:32:37 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where people are really scared that Biden will lose Pennsylvania and labor appears to be silent. </p> | |
| <p><strong>AFL-CIO Backs Biden as Labor Leaders Stay Silent</strong><strong></strong></p> | |
| <p>While some Congressional Democrats have publicly called for Biden to leave the race, labor leaders have largely stayed silent. </p> | |
| <p>“I think there is a real fear that if union leaders come out against Biden, that it could lead to their union members not voting for him,” one senior labor leader told Payday Report. </p> | |
| <p>Earlier today, the AFL-CIO President, Liz Shuler, issued a statement that declared labor’s unified support for Biden staying in the race. </p> | |
| <p>“President Biden and Vice President Harris have always had workers’ backs—and we will have theirs,” <a href="https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-stands-strong-solidarity-biden-harris-ticket">AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a statement. </a></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-stands-strong-solidarity-biden-harris-ticket">Read the full statement here. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Biden Cancels NEA Speech After Union Locks Out Staff </strong></p> | |
| <p>This week, President Joe Biden was expected to give a major high level speech at the National Education Association convention.</p> | |
| <p>However, earlier this week, NEA union staffers went on strike. </p> | |
| <p>NEA’s leadership then decided to lock out its workers, causing President Biden to cancel rather than cross a picket line. </p> | |
| <p>“N.E.A. has abandoned its union values with its actions at the bargaining table,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/business/nea-staff-strike-convention-biden-speech.html">said staff union president Robin McLean in statement.</a> “N.E.A. would rather cancel a multimillion-dollar convention than comply with labor law.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teachers-union-staff-lockout_n_668c06bce4b07ef2c817b4be">For more on the ugly labor struggle at NEA, check out Dave Jamieson at HuffPost. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Protests to Meet Teamsters Union President at RNC Next Week</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, while labor unions and democrats deal with the fallout of Biden’s decline, one labor leader is hedging his bets. </p> | |
| <p>Teamsters President Sean O’Brien plans to speak at the RNC next week<a href="https://paydayreport.com/mercedes-rollsback-wage-benefit-gains-following-union-defeat-teamsters-prez-to-speak-at-rnc-convention-reggie-jackson-talks-violence-in-the-south/">. Not only does he </a>plan to speak, but his union contributed $45,000 to cover the cost of the RNC. </p> | |
| <p>However, it’s unlikely that unions will be celebrated from the platform. Some anti-union groups have already pledged to protest Sean O’Brien’s speech to the RNC. </p> | |
| <p>The anti-union group Center for Union Facts plans to have electronic billboards circling the RNC that call Sean O’Brien “Two Face.” </p> | |
| <p>“One speaking engagement doesn’t change the facts,” Charlyce Bozzello of the anti-union Center for Union Facts said in a statement to Payday. “Ninety-nine percent of the Teamsters’ advocacy dollars go to left-wing causes and workers whose dues fund this partisan posturing aren’t being fooled.”</p> | |
| <p><strong>News & Links Elsewhere</strong></p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/07/03/dane-county-judge-strikes-down-elements-of-wisconsins-act-10-law/74297698007/">Wisconsin judge strikes down part of Scott Walker’s anti-union bill </a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://denverite.com/2024/07/08/union-members-and-city-staff-collective-bargaining-ballot-initiative/">Denver City staff rally in support of collective bargaining for municipal employees, which could be on the ballot this Fall</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2024/07/08/alaska-airlines-flight-attendants-win-tentative-agreement-to-boost-pay-avert-strike/">Alaska Airlines flight attendants win tentative agreement to boost pay, avert strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/08/amazon-coventry-workers-union-ballot-gmb">UK Amazon workers to vote on historic union election in Coventry</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://time.com/6995701/south-korea-doctors-strike-government-reverses-license-suspensions/">South Korea seeking to resolve monthslong doctors’ strike, reverses license suspension plan</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://teamster.org/2024/07/teamsters-at-regional-transportation-commission-in-nevada-authorize-strike/">Finally, Reno bus drivers, who went on strike in 2021, could go on strike again. </a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. We will have a lot more tomorrow. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments, complaints, and cooking recipes to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
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| <title>IATSE Contract Talks Stall – NCAA Launches Anti-Union Push – Construction Worker Suicide Rates Skyrocket</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/iatse-contract-talks-stall-ncaa-launches-anti-union-push-construction-worker-suicide-rates-skyrocket/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:08:12 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I am slowly rebuilding my energy after a long bout with the flu. </p> | |
| <p>Thanks to everyone, who donated to allow me take some days off from reporting and fundraising. </p> | |
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| <p><strong>Film & TV Crew Talks Says Hollywood Contract Talks Stalled </strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier this month, IATSE seemed optimistic they would have a contract proposal to share with their membership. With the contract expiring on July 31st, the union hoped to wrap up contract talks early so members wouldn’t lose work with TV and film production being delayed. </p> | |
| <p>However, this weekend, a coalition of 5 unions blasted the studios for stalling in contract talks. </p> | |
| <p>“At the conclusion of our scheduled dates for June, we want to make it clear that we are not interested in bargaining against ourselves,” Hollywood Basic Crafts chairperson Lindsay Dougherty and four other leaders said in a statement on Friday after finishing up their second week of targeted negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. “There is a perceived lack of urgency on the employers’ end in addressing issues affecting our members.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-basic-crafts-leaders-studios-exhibiting-lack-of-urgency-1235929455/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Hollywood Reporter</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>NCAA Backs Anti-Union Campaign at Dartmouth </strong></p> | |
| <p>Last month, the NCAA agreed to begin paying players as part of a $2.7 billion class action settlement without college athletes. </p> | |
| <p>However, the NCAA signaled this week that it intends to fight unionization in college sports. The NCAA filed an amicus brief with the National Labor Relations Board supporting Dartmouth’s push to block a union election for its basketball players. </p> | |
| <p>“It is not an overstatement to say that finding student-athletes to be employees will threaten the existence of athletic programs and, in turn, opportunities for student-athletes at many of the nation’s colleges and universities,”<a target="_blank" href="https://frontofficesports.com/ncaa-dartmouth-amicus-brief-mens-basketball-union/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> the NCAA wrote in an amicus brief. </a>“The Board is not the place to address and disturb the longstanding relationship between student-athletes and the colleges and universities they attend.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://frontofficesports.com/ncaa-dartmouth-amicus-brief-mens-basketball-union/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Front Office Sports. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Construction Workers are Dying by Suicide at an Alarming Rate</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, NBC News has an in-depth look at a spike in sucide among construction workers: </p> | |
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| <p>“In the construction industry, we’ve generationally been taught that if you talk to someone about a weakness or you’re struggling then you’re weak and you won’t get hired,” said Azbill. “One of the reasons I talk about it so freely is so people know that it’s normal and it’s OK.”</p> | |
| <p>The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates among professions — with the rate among male construction workers 75% higher than men in the general population, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7250a2.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener">according</a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated 6,000 construction workers by suicide in 2022, an increase from 2021, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cpwr.com/research/research-to-practice-r2p/r2p-library/other-resources-for-stakeholders/mental-health-addiction/suicide-prevention-resources/" rel="noreferrer noopener">according</a> to the most recent data available. That compares to around 1,000 who died from a construction work-related injury.</p> | |
| <p>“When you’re more likely to be killed by your own hands than to get killed in a jobsite accident, that’s a crisis in our industry,” said Brian Turmail, vice president of public affairs and workforce for the Associated General Contractors of America. “We know pretty much what needs to happen to protect people physically. We’re figuring out how to protect people mentally.”</p> | |
| <p>While construction <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nahb.org/blog/2024/01/residential-wages-increase#:~:text=Share%3A,per%20hour%20a%20year%20ago." rel="noreferrer noopener">wages</a> are up and jobs are plentiful, those in the industry fear that the pressures on their workers’ mental health are only getting worse. A recent surge in construction projects, spurred by billions of federal dollars for infrastructure, clean energy and semiconductor projects have put increasing strain on an already stretched workforce.</p> | |
| <p>As a result, workers are putting in more than 10-hour days in harsh weather conditions, facing high-pressure deadlines and having to spend months away from home living in hotels, temporary workforce housing or their vehicles. There is also the risk of workplace injuries and a higher rate of opioid misuse along with the general financial instability of hourly work.</p> | |
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| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/construction-workers-are-dying-suicide-alarming-rate-rcna156587" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out NBC News. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>News & Headlines Elsewhere </strong></p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/conservative-backed-group-creating-list-041630123.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/unifor-strike-bombardier-1.7244224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">1,350 Bombardier Workers in Canada Strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/jun/21/vw-chattanooga-firefighters-vote-to-unionize/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VW Chattanooga firefighters vote to unionize</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-democrats-agree-delay-health-care-worker-minimum-111341172" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">California Democrats agree to delay health care worker minimum wage increase to help balance budget</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-807492" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thailand to send farm workers to Israel for first time since Hamas attacks</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.nycclc.org/news/2024-06/oxford-university-press-usa-guild-stages-one-day-strike-response-unfair-labor-charges">Union Strikes Outside U.S. Office of Oxford University Press</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hyundai-motors-union-south-korea-085026846.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAF_OFz_y_WymBBq9zlQUIuqjRPv1wNMCYVm2Tc84CSBT14SZWhBaxDaMrv8bnQirKKgYYTKjU0bnSF9Q_q_V0htDfQIz6CuJ9AcACHNQZ_dKlod5-xl2wnDN48eriCai2GzKFUnTRU8-r35-UG3yiWMJQnEpwvWhz0G-ZV67AO2N" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hyundai workers in Korea vote to strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://mltoday.com/the-biggest-organizing-wave-you-never-heard-of/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finally, Chris Townsend has a long look at the massive organizing wave in Virginia </a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p><strong>Alright, folks, I’m hoping to be back for more next week. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to [email protected] </strong></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover workers organizing around the country</a>. Please, if you can,<a target="_blank" href="https://mynbc15.com/sports/local-sports/i-would-have-got-killed-here-baseball-legend-reggie-jackson-on-racism-he-faced-in-al" rel="noreferrer noopener"> sign up as one of 778 recurring donors today.</a> Thanks again for all the support. </p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>Mercedes Rollsback Wage & Benefit Gains Following Union Defeat – Teamsters Prez to Speak at RNC Convention – Reggie Jackson Talks Violence in the South</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/mercedes-rollsback-wage-benefit-gains-following-union-defeat-teamsters-prez-to-speak-at-rnc-convention-reggie-jackson-talks-violence-in-the-south/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 04:16:49 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I am slowly recovering from a nasty bout with a flu variant. Big thanks to everyone who donated. </p> | |
| <p>I am on the path to recovery, but I wanted to give folks a quick update on what’s happening there because a lot is happening. </p> | |
| <p><strong>$916 Raised for Paid Sick Day Fund Through Matching Funds</strong></p> | |
| <p>Big thanks to our readers, who donated $458 to our paid sick day fund when I was out for the past week. The Illumine Service Foundation matched this money dollar-for-dollar. </p> | |
| <p>Raising $916 when I am sick with the flu really helps me rest and recover. I am struggling with Long Covid; I have gotten ill in the past two years. </p> | |
| <p>Sometimes, I have rushed back to raise money, but it is important to be able to sleep and recover. Big thanks to everyone. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate today and have your donation matched dollar to dollar until the election. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Teamsters Prez to Speak RNC Convention</strong></p> | |
| <p>Early today, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien announced he would accept Trump’s invitation to speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. </p> | |
| <p>“This is truly unprecedented since it will be the very first time a Teamsters General President has addressed the RNC,”<a target="_blank" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teamsters-president-to-address-gop-at-trumps-invitation_n_6675cb22e4b00383ac7d8919" rel="noreferrer noopener"> the Teamsters said in a statement.</a> “Our 1.3 million members represent every political background, and their message needs to be heard by as wide an audience as possible, and that includes all political candidates running for elected office.”</p> | |
| <p>While continuing to receive significant backing from groups like Labor Notes, whose conference OBrien has generously supported as Teamsters president, O’Brien has disappointed many union reformers. </p> | |
| <p>Earlier this year, <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/teamster-prez-threatens-copyright-infringement-suit-against-dissident-website-50000-argentine-healthcare-workers-strike-20000-cal-state-undergrad-workers-unionize/" rel="noreferrer noopener">O’Brien even threatened to sue for copyright infringement of the website TeamstersLink, </a>a popular message board for rank-and-file reformers. He threatened to sue the website after it leaked O’Brien’s internal plans to get the union to give money and support the RNC. </p> | |
| <p>Seth Goldstein, who previously served as counsel to the independent Amazon Labor Union affiliated with the Teamsters, was critical of the Teamsters President’s decision. O’Brien’s flirtation with Trump was well-known before the ALU’s decision to affiliate with the Teamsters, leading Goldstein to call out the union’s politics. </p> | |
| <p>“I’d rather do anything than speak at a convention sponsored by big tech, Amazon, union busters, and ‘big money’ interests. What happened to ‘eat the rich’?” <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/SethGoldstein13/status/1804308020668649553" rel="noreferrer noopener">tweeted Goldstein with a picture of Amazon Labor Union Founder Chris Smalls, wearing a shirt that said, “Eat the Rich.” </a></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teamsters-president-to-address-gop-at-trumps-invitation_n_6675cb22e4b00383ac7d8919" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Dave Jamieson at HuffPost</a>.</p> | |
| <p><strong>Mercedes Rollsback Wage & Benefit Gains Following Union Defeat </strong></p> | |
| <p>Last month, the UAW was defeated in a historic upset in its attempt to unionize at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. The union has filed formal objections with the NLRB, alleging illegal intimidation and asking the NLRB to sit outside the UAW election. </p> | |
| <p>Now, Mercedes is saying that it can’t give workers the wage and benefits increases it promised to implement because of the union’s current legal action at the NLRB. </p> | |
| <p>The UAW has protested the change and intends to file legal objections. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.alreporter.com/2024/06/21/uaw-president-mercedes-breaking-promises-to-workers-by-blaming-the-union/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out the Alabama Political Reporter. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Reggie Jackson Opens Up About Death Threats in Alabama </strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, yesterday, Major League Baseball held a historic game at Rickwood Field, a former Negro Leagues stadium, where Willie Mays got his start. </p> | |
| <p>Reggie Jackson, who played for the Oakland A’s AA minor league affiliate there in 1968, opened up about the violence he faced as a black player in Alabama in the 1960s. From NBC: </p> | |
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| <p>“I would never want to do it again. I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and say that n—– can’t eat here,” he explained during a Fox Sports pregame show.</p> | |
| <p>Negro League legends prior to the 2024 Rickwood game between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals on June 20 in Birmingham, Ala.Daniel Shirey / MLB Photos via Getty Images</p> | |
| <p>“We went to (Kansas City A’s owner) Charlie Finley’s country club for a welcome home dinner and they pointed me out with the N-word, ‘He can’t come in here.’ Finley marched the whole team out. Finally, they let me in there. He said, ‘We’re going to go to the diner and eat hamburgers. We’ll go where we’re wanted,'” Jackson said.</p> | |
| <p>Thankfully, he had the support of his manager and teammates.</p> | |
| <p>“Fortunately I had a manager, Johnny McNamara. If I couldn’t eat in a place, nobody would eat. We’d get food to travel. If I couldn’t stay in a hotel, they’d drive to the next hotel and find a place where I could stay,” he said. “Had it not been for Rollie Fingers, Johnny McNamara, Dave Duncan, Joe and Sharon Rudi, I slept on their couch three, four nights a week for about a month and a half. Finally, they were threatened that they would burn our apartment complex down unless I got out.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://mynbc15.com/sports/local-sports/i-would-have-got-killed-here-baseball-legend-reggie-jackson-on-racism-he-faced-in-al" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out NBC. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Alright, folks, I’m hoping to be back for more next week. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </strong></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover workers organizing around the country</a>. Please, if you can,<a target="_blank" href="https://mynbc15.com/sports/local-sports/i-would-have-got-killed-here-baseball-legend-reggie-jackson-on-racism-he-faced-in-al" rel="noreferrer noopener"> sign up as one of 778 recurring donors today.</a> Thanks again for all the support. </p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>Happy Father’s Day to the Union Dads like My Dad</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/happy-fathers-day-to-the-union-dads-like-my-dad/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:57:08 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH, PA. – Happy Father’s Day to all the union dads out there, especially my dad, who I can’t see today because I’m sick with...]]></description> | |
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| <p>PITTSBURGH, PA. – Happy Father’s Day to all the union dads out there, especially my dad, who I can’t see today because I’m sick with the flu. Like many people who grew up with dads who were union activists, my dad inspired me a lot as a labor reporter. </p> | |
| <p>My dad spent 44 years working for the UE union, <a href="https://www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feature/2021/a-life-in-ue-director-of-organization-gene-elk-retiring-after-44-years">starting in 1977 when he was 24 and retiring at 68 in 2021.</a> Despite being <a href="https://www.ueunion.org/ue-news/2015/delegates-elect-new-officers-approve-constitution-amendments-in-wed-afternoon-session">elected as the UE’s national Director of Organization in 2015</a>, he never once made about $70,000 in his nearly fifty-year career as a union rep. </p> | |
| <p>My father continued the UE traditions started by my great Aunt Lucy and Uncle Herb, who served as UE organizers in the 1940s. </p> | |
| <p>My Uncle Herb, a World War Two combat veteran, was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee at a field hearing in Baltimore in 1957. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://archive.org/stream/investigationofc0257unit/investigationofc0257unit_djvu.txt">At the hearing, my Uncle Herb refused to be named and was fired from his job as a local math teacher. </a>However, he helped to protect the UE from further red-baiting.</p> | |
| <p>For all of my life, the sacrifices of my father, my family members and so many others have inspired me as a labor reporter. </p> | |
| <p>Happy Father’s Day to all the union Dads – union values begin in the household! Feliz Dia dos Pais! </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to Help Us Keep the Family Traditions Alive Here at Payday</a></p> | |
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| <title>Podcast: Veteran UE Organizer Chris Townsend Talks Organizing Surge in Virginia</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-veteran-ue-organizer-chris-townsend-talks-organizing-surge-in-northern-virginia/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Payday Report Podcast]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:45:02 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Chris Townsend is a veteran union organizer who has lived in Virginia for 20 years. He previously served as the UE's Political action director and the ATU's Organizing Director. Over the past five years, he has seen an upsurge in organizing in...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Chris Townsend is a veteran union organizer who has lived in Virginia for 20 years.</p> | |
| <p>He previously served as the UE’s Political action director and the ATU’s Organizing Director. Over the past five years, he has seen an upsurge in organizing in Northern Virginia. “I was the organizing director for the Amalgamated Transit Union and in a period of several years, in Virginia, we organized 16 new units. We hadn’t done 16 of anything in this state for a long time,” says Townsend.</p> | |
| <p>Townsend thinks that yesterday’s victory of 27,000 teachers voting to unionize in Fairfax County, Virginia, could inspire teachers elsewhere.</p> | |
| <p>“If they can prevail on their internal union structures, to take a serious look at health care organizing here in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia, they will find a tremendous opportunity,” says Townsend.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bBiB2isuCu2DUMBVgh3Hj?si=Dqfx_XOyRQ-P4XbFTtYfsg">Listen to the veteran union organizer describe how things are changing in Virginia and what this means for the presidential election. </a></p> | |
| <p>We will have more podcast next week.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">Donate to help us cover the union breakthrough in Virginia</a></p> | |
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| <title>Foundation Offers $20,000 Matching Donation to Cover Unions in Swing States in 2024 Election</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:07:07 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Massive news from Virginia today, where 27,000 teachers and school staff voted by a margin of 9-to-1 to unionize. It’s the largest teachers union...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Massive news from Virginia today, where 27,000 teachers and school staff voted by a margin of 9-to-1 to unionize. It’s the largest teachers union election in 25 years and will add to the growing momentum already in Virginia. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/27000-virginia-teachers-win-historic-union-election-with-presidential-election-implications/">(See our story)</a></p> | |
| <p>Virginia is a key battleground and the growing union movement there can only help the Democratic Party as we head into the November election. Over the past couple of years, the labor movement has added tens of thousands of union members, building political power for workers to fight back in a crucial swing state like Virginia. </p> | |
| <p>As we head into a brutal 2024 election, Payday wants to focus on unions organizing and fighting back against facism in the battleground states. Union organizing and the growing strength of the labor movement is gonna be crucial to beating Trump. </p> | |
| <p>Illumine Service Foundation has agreed to match all donations to Payday up to $20,000 for this special focus on how unions are fighting back in the battleground states ahead of the 2024 election. </p> | |
| <p>Every dollar donated up to $20,000 will be matched by Illumine Service Foundation as part of their multi-year process to help expand Payday’s reach. </p> | |
| <p>“Payday does such incredible work, particularly in news deserts,” says Illumine Service Foundation Executive Director Sanjay Rawal. “And as the country heats up for what I’m sure will be another hot labor summer, Payday once more is going to be at the forefront of how unions are fighting back in battleground states. Please join us in giving them your generous donations.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">Donate now because every dollar will be matched dollar-for-dollar. </a></p> | |
| <p>Payday wants to focus on how unions are fighting back in key battleground states like North Carolina, where collective bargaining is outlawed, but unions are organizing anyhow. </p> | |
| <p>We wanna focus on states in the Midwest like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio, where Biden’s investment in the electric vehicle industry and semiconductors has led to growth. </p> | |
| <p>We also wanna focus on Arizona, where the growing Latino population has led to an upsurge in the labor movement in that crucial swing state. </p> | |
| <p>Every donation given will be matched dollar for dollar until we have raised $20,000. </p> | |
| <p>Payday Report has always been ahead of the curve and we think that union (incomplete)</p> | |
| <p>The Washington Post has credited <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/">Payday’s Strike Tracker as being the first to systematically track the strike wave from its beginning in March of 2022.</a> The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/business/media/labor-unions-media-coverage.html">New York Times described us as a labor publication with “new energy” </a>and our work with CNN was even nominated for an Emmy. </p> | |
| <p>We do high-input stories that the national media notices and our coverage of how unions are fighting back against fascism. It will likely inspire more coverage. </p> | |
| <p>Every dollar donated will be matched dollar for dollar so give if you can. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/foundation-offers-20000-matching-donation-to-cover-unions-in-swing-states-in-2024-election/">Donate to Help Us Cover Unions Fighting Back in Battleground States</a></p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
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| <title>27,000 Virginia Teachers Win Historic Union Election with Presidential Election Implications</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/27000-virginia-teachers-win-historic-union-election-with-presidential-election-implications/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:33:24 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[This morning, it was announced that Virginia Education Unions, a joint coalition of Virginia-based AFT and NEA locals, had won a historic union election to...]]></description> | |
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| <p>This morning, it was announced that Virginia Education Unions, a joint coalition of Virginia-based AFT and NEA locals, had won a historic union election to represent over 27,000 teachers and school staff in Fairfax County, Virginia.</p> | |
| <p>97% of all teachers voted to unionize and 81% of all support staff voted to unionize. </p> | |
| <p>“Today marks the culmination of a 47-year-long fight to win collective bargaining at Fairfax County Public Schools. The reason our campaign was successful was because we all took agency over our own lives,” says David Walrod in a statement. </p> | |
| <p>The union victory in the 9th largest school district is one of the largest teachers union elections in decades. It also has the potential to dramatically reshape the politics of Northern Virginia. </p> | |
| <p>“I think people are realizing that they are not respected and want to be able to have the American dream,” said Fairfax Education Association President Leslie Houston. </p> | |
| <p>Fairfax County, the Virginia suburbs of DC, is the 5th richest county in America. However, most public employees say that they can no longer afford to live in the communities where they teach. This has helped motivate many public employees, particularly after the pandemic, to get involved</p> | |
| <p>“Every educator should have the right to live where they work, and every educator should be able to live on their pay and not have to go and get a second job in 2024,”’ says Houston. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-27000-virginia-teachers-voting-to-unionize/">(Listen to our full interview with Leslie Houston here)</a></p> | |
| <p>The union election is the result of decades of organizing. For decades, collective bargaining has been outlawed for public employees on Virginia. </p> | |
| <p>However, as the state of Virginia began shifting more Democratic, unions began to heavily push the Democratic Party in Virginia to allow collective bargaining rights. </p> | |
| <p>In 2020, former Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Norrham signed a bill allowing municipalities to grant collective bargaining rights to public employees in Virginia. Since then, tens of thousands of public employees across Virginia have joined the labor movement, making it the fastest growing state for unions in the country. </p> | |
| <p>“We’ve been working toward this for years. (Since) back in 2017, when Governor Ralph Northam was elected, we’ve been working to try to get a Democratic legislature here in Virginia,” says Fairfax County Educator Coalition President David Walrod. “In 2019, we spent a lot of time working on lobbying to try to get on the path to a collective bargaining bill, And once it went into effect in May of 2021, we then had to work with our school board to try to get a resolution through and try to get them to approve collective bargaining.”</p> | |
| <p>He says that the union had to work overtime to educate people in Virginia about collective bargaining rights. </p> | |
| <p>“For 50 years, we weren’t allowed to engage in collective bargaining. So you’ve had folks that have come in, grown up, went to public schools, graduated, got their degrees, spent their entire life teaching, and are retiring. And during that entire time, collective bargaining was never legal. And so what we’re trying to do right now is to get folks to see that Virginia is a collective bargaining state,” says Walrod. </p> | |
| <p>Walrod credits cooperation between unions as being key to the historic union election there. </p> | |
| <p>In a show of solidarity, both the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of AFT, and the Virginia Education Association, an affiliate of NEA, decided to work together to form a combined union for all teachers and school staff, rather than compete against each other. </p> | |
| <p>“We’re stronger together, we’re stronger when we’re all pointed in the same direction. We’re stronger when we are working with a collective voice. And so the idea that we could be getting 27,000 folks a voice that they haven’t had before is definitely a pretty powerful feeling,” says Walrod. </p> | |
| <p>Now, the union says that it will target other schools throughout the state of Virginia, particularly in the Democratic-heavy DC suburbs of Northern Virginia, which had once been a stronghold of ant-unionism. (Walrod says that his union is literally located a little over a mile down the road from the headquarters of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation). </p> | |
| <p>The union feels that the historic victory will inspire other workers in Virginia’s rapidly unionizing public sector to organize. </p> | |
| <p>“I certainly hope that’s gonna have a ripple effect elsewhere,” says Walrod. </p> | |
| <p>After the pandemic, Fairfax Education Association President Leslie Houston says that many teachers would be receptive. Controversy over school closings during COVID and book ban attempts have led to many parents attacking teachers in the affluent Virginia suburbs of Fairfax County. </p> | |
| <p>“I remember, as the teachers feeling so loved, right, for the first month [of the pandemic] until people found out that they weren’t going back to school for the year. And then when Fairfax County Schools decided that we weren’t going back until there was a vaccine, then we became the villain,” says Houston. </p> | |
| <p>Now, teachers say that they will have more support with a union in place. </p> | |
| <p>Now, with growing public sector unions in the state, the Democratic Party is likely to be strengthened in Virginia, with unions run by Democratic allies. </p> | |
| <p>“It is my hope that the reason that the politics of the state is changing is because people are realizing they’re righting a wrong.” says Leslie Houston. </p> | |
| <p>Payday will have more on this historic union election later in the day.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-27000-teachers-unionizing-in-virginia/">Donate to Help Us Cover How Virginia Historic Teacher Union Election Will Inspire Southern Workers</a></p> | |
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| <title>Virginia Teachers Union Leader “Feeling Good” about Historic Victory in 27,000 Teacher Election in Fairfax County</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/virginia-teachers-union-leader-feeling-good-about-historic-victory-in-27000-teacher-election-in-fairfax-county/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:52:54 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where I am getting off a pre-planned birthday vacation and flying on Delta to cover the historic teachers’ union election...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I am getting off a pre-planned birthday vacation and flying on Delta to cover the historic teachers’ union election in Virginia.</p> | |
| <p><strong>Payday Podcast with African-American head of a Fairfax County Education Association </strong></p> | |
| <p>Check out our new podcast on Spotify with the African-American president of the Virginia Education Association, Leslie Holt. </p> | |
| <p>She’s a former journalist and a special education teacher who started teaching when her son was diagnosed with autism spectrum issues.<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-27000-virginia-teachers-voting-to-unionize/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Listen to her</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qbkZC2FXTIQRtB9cQoQmM?go=1&sp_cid=eb4aa5bdafffac08681161819d00e43a&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=313a949a75ca41fe" rel="noreferrer noopener">subscribe to Payday’s podcast on Spotify. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Donate to Help Cover Historic 27,000 Teacher & Staff Virginia Union Election</strong></p> | |
| <p>Payday is flying down tomorrow to cover how this union election could inspire more elections throughout the South and have significant implications for the presidential election. </p> | |
| <p><strong><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-27000-teachers-unionizing-in-virginia/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us tell this historic tale.</a> Please <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-27000-teachers-unionizing-in-virginia/" rel="noreferrer noopener">sign up as one of our 775 recurring donors today. </a></strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>Union Leaders Expect Positive Results in Virginia </strong></p> | |
| <p>The results of the historic Virginia union election involving 27,000 teachers, one of the most prominent teachers’ union elections in the South in decades, are expected to be announced around 10:15 a.m. </p> | |
| <p>Fairfax County, the 9th largest school district in the nation, holds a significant sway in Virginia’s political landscape. Its strong Democratic leanings have played a pivotal role in turning Virginia into a blue state. </p> | |
| <p>It’s likely to generate a lot of positive momentum. Multiple union officials in the teachers’ union and labor movement are optimistic about tomorrow’s result. No vote count total was presented to Payday to confirm it, but officials who are respected and trusted in the community have told Payday they feel optimistic. </p> | |
| <p>“Apparently, cards were being signed at a furious rate, and they said it was the easiest organizing many of the staff have done,” one veteran NEA staffer told Payday Report. </p> | |
| <p>Virginia Education United, a collaborative effort of AFT and NEA locals, is leading a joint effort to unionize 27,000 teachers and support staff into two sister locals. </p> | |
| <p>Officials from both unions also seemed optimistic on the record with the Payday Report. Fairfax County’s school system has run no anti-union campaign, dramatically increasing the odds of a win. </p> | |
| <p>“I’ll feel a lot better once the results have gone through. Hopefully I’ll even be able to sleep again,” Virginia Education Federation Association member Dave Walrod told Payday Report. </p> | |
| <p>The union coalition is jointly organizing two bargaining units of teachers into one unit and school support staff into another for 27,000 members. </p> | |
| <p>Fairfax County Education Association President Leslie Houston also seemed optimistic in an interview with Payday Report. The county, which is heavily Democratic, did not run an anti-union campaign. </p> | |
| <p>She says that after the pandemic, many Fairfax County workers are tired of working in the public school system in Fairfax County and cannot afford to work there. </p> | |
| <p>“it is my hope that the reason that the politics of the state is changing is because people are realizing there’s a writing there’s a wrong,” says Leslie Houston.</p> | |
| <p><strong><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-27000-virginia-teachers-voting-to-unionize/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Listen to our full interview on Spotify with Fairfax County Education President Leslie Houston. </a></strong></p> | |
| <p><em>We are working on a big story and will have more in the morning around 10. Im going to sleep for 3-4 hours, and then I get back to writing. Email us ideas <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </em></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-27000-teachers-unionizing-in-virginia/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us tell this crucial election story.</a> Please, <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-27000-teachers-unionizing-in-virginia/" rel="noreferrer noopener">sign up as one of our 774 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk </p> | |
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| <link>https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-27000-teachers-unionizing-in-virginia/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:38:45 +0000</pubDate> | |
| <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks, This week, more than 27,000 teachers and support staff are voting to unionize in Fairfax County, Virginia (the 9th largest school district in the...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>This week, more than 27,000 teachers and support staff are voting to unionize in Fairfax County, Virginia (the 9th largest school district in the country.) If they win, it will be the largest union victory in 5 decades.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-27000-virginia-teachers-voting-to-unionize/">Check out our podcast previewing the union election here)</a></p> | |
| <p>After the recent victory of 4,300 Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga in April (<a href="https://paydayreport.com/uaw-wins-historic-volkswagen-union-election-in-a-landslide/">see Payday’s coverage on the ground here</a>), a victory of 27,000 teachers in Fairfax County could inspire more organizing throughout the South.</p> | |
| <p>In 2020, Virginia voted to give collective bargaining rights to municipal employees. If the union wins next week, it will likely inspire a wave of public sector organizing in Virginia’s DC suburbs and throughout the state. </p> | |
| <p>Workers across the country are inspired like never before after those big wins down South and there are likely to be more this summer. </p> | |
| <p>Payday wants to be out there covering this story. It’s important that workers see what’s happening so that workers continue to be inspired. </p> | |
| <p>We want to build up a travel fund so big that we can go anywhere at any time to cover what’s happening. We are hoping to raise $20,000 this summer to build a permanent travel reserve fund. </p> | |
| <p>Payday Report has always been ahead of the curve and we think that we are gonna see a “Hot Shop Union Summer” like none other this year. </p> | |
| <p>The Washington Post credited <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/">Payday’s Strike Tracker as being the first to systematically track the strike wave from its beginning in March of 2022.</a> The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/business/media/labor-unions-media-coverage.html">New York Times described us as a labor publication with “new energy” </a>and our work with CNN was even nominated for an Emmy. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCedYMbxhF4">(Be sure to check out our interview with a formerly anti-union worker that got a combined 500,000 views on YouTube and Twitter) </a></p> | |
| <p>We may be a small labor publication based in Pittsburgh, but we have had a big impact on the national conversation. </p> | |
| <p>By raising $20,000 this summer, we will be able to build a solid travel fund that allows us to cover the uprisings happening across the country. </p> | |
| <p>For years, we have relied on crowdfunding, but now we are starting to receive grant money. We are now building a Reader Coop Advisory Board to help us attract new streams of revenue and support for the publication. </p> | |
| <p>However, our ability to attract grant money is heavily based on our ability to crowdfund. The more financially sustainable that we can demonstrate that we are, the more likely larger foundations will invest. </p> | |
| <p>So, we are going to push to raise $20,000 this summer to build up a reserve fund to cover the big union organizing outbreak starting this summer. </p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate">Donate to Help Us Cover “Hot Shop, Union Summer”.</a></p> | |
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| <title>Podcast: 27,000 Virginia Teachers Vote to Unionize in Historic Union Election</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-27000-virginia-teachers-voting-to-unionize/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Payday Report Podcast]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 01:40:02 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[In Virginia, this week, over 27,000 teachers and school staff are expected to vote on unionizing. If they win, it will be the largest union victory in decades. The organizing drives comes after Virginia granted collective...]]></description> | |
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| <p> </p> | |
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| <p>\olks, </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-27000-virginia-teachers-voting-to-unionize/">We are working on a big story about 27,000 teachers unionizing in Fairfax County, Virginia (the 9th largest school district in the nation)</a>. If successful, it would be the largest public sector union election in nearly 5 decades. </p> | |
| <p>This movement could serve as a catalyst, inspiring organizing efforts throughout the South. Moreover, a surge in unionization in Virginia could potentially shift the state’s political landscape, solidifying its Democratic stance, a trend that has been gaining momentum in recent years. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=b1ac4a9e02&e=387cdf765b" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Check our podcast with the Fairfax Education Association. President Leslie Houston </a>If you don’t have Spotify, <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=bfe987373c&e=387cdf765b" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">you can listen directly on Payday’s website</a></p> | |
| <p>We will have a longer story out tomorrow morning. <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=5e4bbe34a2&e=387cdf765b" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us pay to edit it. </a></p> | |
| <p>Please, please, please if you can help us replace the mic so we can do more podcast. <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=009ef7cd87&e=387cdf765b" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Check out the one we recorded this weekend on Spotify)</a></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=df5b3e7c01&e=387cdf765b" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us replace the mic and make more podcasts as I prepare to leave tomorrow</a></p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk </p> | |
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| <title>IATSE & TV Studios Talks Hit Snag – 27,000 Virginia Teachers to Vote on Union on Monday</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/iatse-tv-studios-talk-hit-a-snag-27000-virginia-teachers-to-vote-on-union-on-monday/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 22:34:44 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where I am getting ready to ship out to cover 27,000 teachers voting to unionize in Fairfax County, Virginia.  Help...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I am getting ready to ship out to cover 27,000 teachers voting to unionize in Fairfax County, Virginia. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Help Pay for Weekend Work Covering Virginia’s Teachers Union Election </strong></p> | |
| <p>We have already conducted several interviews with teachers on the ground in Virginia and have several more scheduled. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Please donate to help us edit these interviews into a podcast.</a> If you can, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">please sign up as one of our 774 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Tennessee Women to Strike Statewide </strong></p> | |
| <p>In Tennessee, some women plan to go on a statewide strike to protest the discrimination they face on the job. The workers plan to picket at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville as part of a nationwide effort to get women to strike. </p> | |
| <p>“We are encouraging people who absolutely cannot do that to wear red or green in solidarity and show their support,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wsmv.com/2024/06/05/nationwide-womens-strike-be-held-tennessee-state-capitol/" rel="noreferrer noopener">the group told WSVM. </a>“We are standing for reproductive freedom, bodily autonomy, gender equality and gender-based violence. Especially in light of the new laws that have been passed just in these last couple of months relating to abortion, contraception, IVF and can you believe a national database for women who become pregnant!”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.wsmv.com/2024/06/05/nationwide-womens-strike-be-held-tennessee-state-capitol/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out WSVM. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Tensions Rise in IATSE Contract Talks </strong></p> | |
| <p>IATSE officials had hoped that they would be able to show a proposed tentative agreement by the end of this week. However, tensions at the bargaining table have risen. From Deadline: </p> | |
| <p>The union announced Thursday that it had yet to reach a deal on the Basic Agreement nor the Area Standards Agreement, despite Wednesday being the last scheduled day of bargaining between IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.</p> | |
| <p>More talks are scheduled for this month and could start as early as next week. For now, IATSE must step aside for Teamsters Local 399 to begin negotiations, but Deadline hears its possible that the unions may bargain simultaneously in an effort to get both deals done before their contracts expire on July 31.</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2024/06/iatse-contact-talks-no-deal-yet-1235960690/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Deadline. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>IATSE Plans to Use Day-Time Emmys as Organizing Target</strong></p> | |
| <p>With frustration mounting over the pace of negotiations, IATSE has announced that they plan to picket the Daytime Emmy Awards tonite. </p> | |
| <p>“Our industry is really good at recognizing the value that artists and technicians bring. It’s that work that makes shows like the Daytime Emmy Awards possible,” an IATSE spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline. “The IA is disappointed that the production team elected to do this non-union, and we are hopeful that we can reach an agreement similar to other awards shows, such as the Primetime Emmy Awards.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2024/06/iatse-daytime-emmys-rally-1235961918/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Deadline. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Healthcare Workers Picket American Medical Association Over Gaza Silence </strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, healthcare workers are picketing the American Medical Association conference in Chicago tomorrow over the group’s ongoing silence on Gaza. </p> | |
| <p>“We’re seeing hospitals being bombed, ambulances being bombed, doctors and other medical workers being targeted and shot,” <a target="_blank" href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/06/05/healthcare-workers-will-protest-the-american-medical-associations-silence-in-the-face-of-genocide/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Emily Hacker, a member of Healthcare Workers for Palestine told People’s Dispatch.</a> “The AMA is the sixth largest lobbying organization in the United States, it’s bigger than Boeing. It’s bigger than Lockheed Martin, it’s bigger than the [National Rifle Association]. They have a tremendous amount of domestic and international influence, and because they carry such weight within the realm of health care, we felt it would be appropriate for them to use their voice in this way.” </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/06/05/healthcare-workers-will-protest-the-american-medical-associations-silence-in-the-face-of-genocide/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out People’s Dispatch</a>.</p> | |
| <p>News & Headlines Elsewhere</p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://laist.com/news/education/academic-worker-strike-university-of-california-irvine" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frustrated With the University, Workers At Sixth UC Campus Enter Strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/black-workers-lawsuit-general-mills-racial-discrimination-covington" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black workers sue General Mills over alleged racial discrimination at Georgia plant</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://lasentinel.net/has-the-2023-wga-strike-advanced-black-writers-in-2024.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Has the 2023 WGA Strike Advanced Black Writers in 2024?</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2024/06/05/american-airlines-offers-pay-bump-as-flight-attendent-union-opens-strike-center/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">American Airlines offers pay bump as flight attendant union opens strike center</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.masstransitmag.com/management/news/55056580/ca-muni-workers-reject-sf-labor-contract-opening-the-door-for-a-summer-strike" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Muni workers reject S.F. labor contract, opening the door for a summer strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.iaff.org/news/collective-bargaining-rights-are-spreading-across-virginia/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">5 major firefighter 1st contract campaigns were successful in Virginia this year</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.wisn.com/article/strike-halts-work-wisconsin-construction-sites/61009395" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">800 Wisconsin construction workers strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://mountainstatespotlight.org/2024/06/06/pilgrims-moorefield-immigrant-worker-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finally, In West Virginia’s ‘Poultry Capital,’ immigrant workers struggle to find the help and support they need</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments, and complaints to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a>. </p> | |
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| <title>My Grandfather served in a mixed-race unit in Normandy</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/my-grandfather-served-in-a-mixed-race-unit-in-normandy/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 23:39:27 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH, PA. – My grandfather Regis Holden was a Normandy veteran, who served in the mixed-race unit “The Red Ball Express.” He landed 12 days...]]></description> | |
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| <p>PITTSBURGH, PA. – My grandfather Regis Holden was a Normandy veteran, who served in the mixed-race unit “The Red Ball Express.”</p> | |
| <p>He landed 12 days after D-Day when the fighting was very ugly there. Initially assigned to a rear-echelon anti-aircraft unit, my grandfather was a yinzer & volunteered to get closer to the front as a truck driver in the legendary unit which was famously depicted in t<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUtpXjz7oTU">he 1952 Sidney Poitier film <em>Red Ball Express</em>.</a></p> | |
| <p>The Red Ball Express was 75% Black & my grandfather took great pride in his very white circle for being a volunteer in the mixed-race unit. They undertook the very hazardous work of driving explosives and gas to the front lines, often under combat conditions on unsafe roads (see below).</p> | |
| <p>A lot of guys did die not just in combat, but in vehicle accidents. These guys were driving explosives often under shelling on very unsafe roads. They died getting supplies to the front to beat the Nazis and the experience of their sacrifice in the fight against fascism always inspired my grandfather.</p> | |
| <p>After the war, he got involved in the bricklayers union. One day while building a high school in the 1950s, he was asked if he had ever considered teaching high school votech.</p> | |
| <p>So, he went back to college on the GI BIll and taught at Hempfield High School, helping to organize a teachers union there. He served as a city councilman and mayor, founded a community college, and helped back a young McGovern inspired maverick named Allen Kukovich when he first ran for office.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/homecoming-retracing-pappaps-steps-fight-win-pa-18th-special-election-stopping-northern-outbreak-right-work/">(Check out my 2017 profile of how my grandfather played a key role in backing Kukovich against the party bosses)</a></p> | |
| <p>My grandfather was very proud of his service in Normandy and fought for unions and education that he didn’t have as a kid in the Depression. He’s a constant inspiration for me in the fight for truth, justice, and democracy, which so many of his friends died fighting for on D-Day.</p> | |
| <p>As the last of the living veterans assemble for the 80th anniversary, let’s remember the Normandy veterans like my grandfather who fought to defeat fascism and then fought against the boss to build unions when they got home. Regis Holden presente!</p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate">Donate to Help Us Continue to Honor Their Legacy</a></p> | |
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| <title>Steelworkers Union’s Right-Wing Faces Defeat as US Steel to Close Illegal Polluter – Teamsters Go to War with Machinists – IATSE Hopeful About Cutting Deal</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/steelworkers-unions-right-wing-faces-defeat-as-us-steel-to-close-illegal-polluter-teamsters-go-to-war-with-machinists-iatse-hopeful-about-cutting-deal/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 08:13:05 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where asthma sufferers like me just got some really good news.  Donate to help us keep paying the asthma inhaler...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where asthma sufferers like me just got some really good news. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us keep paying the asthma inhaler bill. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Following Lawsuit, US Steel to Close Chronic Polluter Coke Oven in Pittsburgh</strong></p> | |
| <p>Today, US Steel announced that it would close its Battery 15 located in its Clairton Coke Works. The closure is a defeat of ugly racist politics of the local Pittsburgh Steelworkers, which attempted to pit union jobs against our community’s demand for local air. (<a target="_blank" href="https://prospect.org/politics/summer-lees-organizing-model-has-upended-pittsburgh/" rel="noreferrer noopener">See my American Prospect story on how right-wing elements of the Steelworkers union opposed Summer Lee’s election</a>)</p> | |
| <p>The closure is part of a historic settlement to reduce illegal air emissions in Pittsburgh. US Steel also announced that they were taking steps to reduce their hydrogen sulfide emission by ⅓ . (<a href="https://paydayreport.com/steelworkers-union-covers-for-us-steel-as-they-appeal-clean-air-enforcement/">See Payday’s 2019 story on how the Steelworkers helped to cover up illegal emissions that many in Pittsburgh sick</a>)</p> | |
| <p>“The closure of Battery 15, which had previously been temporarily idled, will permanently ratchet down emissions of harmful pollution such as sulfur compounds (linked to asthma and respiratory problems), benzene (linked to cancer), and fine particulates (linked to cardiovascular and other health problems). At the time of its closure, Battery 15 contained more than 10% of the remaining coke ovens at Clairton Works,” <a target="_blank" href="https://environmentamerica.org/pennsylvania/articles/pennenvironments-record-breaking-legal-victory-against-u-s-steel/" rel="noreferrer noopener">said PennEnviroment.</a></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://environmentamerica.org/pennsylvania/articles/pennenvironments-record-breaking-legal-victory-against-u-s-steel/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more on the historic settlement, check out PennEnvironment. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>IATSE Hopeful About Cutting Deal </strong></p> | |
| <p>With the July 31st deadline on the contract between 60,000 IATSE members and the studios approaching, it appears that both the strike-weary studios and IATSE are close to reaching a deal. From Deadline: </p> | |
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| <p>Deadline understands that wage increases and job security have been the main sticking points in talks, both of which have become higher priority for IATSE members in recent years.</p> | |
| <p>Below-the-line crew were hit hard by pandemic-related shutdowns followed by the work stoppages last year. Now, with the contraction in production the industry is currently experiencing, many of those workers are still not seeing any relief.</p> | |
| <p>“The real negotiation is no one wants a strike, but we can’t seem to get all the pieces together for an agreement that works for everyone,” the exec added.</p> | |
| <p>While it’s not the update members may have wanted, Deadline understands that those in the room remain “hopeful” that the parties will strike a deal — at least before the contracts expire on July 31.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2024/06/iatse-negotiations-update-finalizing-basic-agreement-1235957799/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Deadline. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>As ALU Affiliates with Teamsters, Teamsters End “No Raid” Pact with Machinists</strong></p> | |
| <p>Yesterday,<a target="_blank" href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/amazon-labor-union-moves-affiliate-teamsters-union-amid-110845748" rel="noreferrer noopener"> the independent Amazon Labor Union announced that they were affiliating with the Teamster</a>s as the Teamsters seeks to unionize Amazon warehouse. </p> | |
| <p>In a power move, the Teamsters then signaled that they were ending their “no raid” agreement with the Machinists, who are also seeking to unionize Amazon warehouses. </p> | |
| <p>“I informed the General President of the [IAM] that I was revoking any existing no-raid agreement and excluding the IAM and its local affiliates from the [Teamsters’] general ‘no-raid’ policy with respect to sister unions,” Teamster President Sean O’Brien wrote in an email to his executive board. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teamsters-memo-raiding-machinists_n_665e1359e4b022af97dd375e" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out the great veteran labor reporter Dave Jamieson’s article at the HuffPost. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Links to Great Movement Fights</strong></p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/life/culture/seattles-wing-luke-museum-to-reopen-exhibit-that-sparked-staff-walkout/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum to reopen exhibit that sparked staff walkout</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/06/gaza-philz-coffee-berkeley-union" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Palestine Led My Coworkers and Me to Unionize</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/05/why-are-so-m" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Why are so many Chicago medical residents unionizing? Activity follows pandemic, shifting attitudes</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://archive.ph/JT9BM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tennessee ranks among most dangerous states for construction work: ‘Carrying caskets’</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending ideas, story comments, and complaints to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/for-my-38th-b-day-donate-38-to-cover-27000-virginia-teachers-voting-on-union/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2D5EJ2orfICqLCdMIy2bznBelYyQF_KzImIJ7JxT6w3JB69cnHUQm3hAk_aem_Ab3xd6hRWn2MX7uNrzVh_QzN3vSZ-SaajeQ3IWJToXFx8LGIByZNbpCKFsob5hmjAb3GqZn5FRDzuM97E3-h-lQu" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover 27,000 teachers & school staff voting to unionize in Virginia next week</a>. Please, if you can,<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/for-my-38th-b-day-donate-38-to-cover-27000-virginia-teachers-voting-on-union/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2D5EJ2orfICqLCdMIy2bznBelYyQF_KzImIJ7JxT6w3JB69cnHUQm3hAk_aem_Ab3xd6hRWn2MX7uNrzVh_QzN3vSZ-SaajeQ3IWJToXFx8LGIByZNbpCKFsob5hmjAb3GqZn5FRDzuM97E3-h-lQu" rel="noreferrer noopener"> sign up as one of our 781 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>For My 38th B-Day, Donate $38 to cover 27,000 Virginia Teachers Voting on Union</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/for-my-38th-b-day-donate-38-to-cover-27000-virginia-teachers-voting-on-union/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:11:18 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>It’s my 38th birthday, and I am asking folks to donate $38 bucks to help us cover 27,000 teachers and educational employees who are voting to unionize in Virginia next week. </p> | |
| <p>After the recent victory of 4,300 Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga in April (<a href="https://paydayreport.com/uaw-wins-historic-volkswagen-union-election-in-a-landslide/">see Payday’s coverage on the ground here</a>), a victory for teachers seeking to unionize 29,000 teachers in Fairfax County could inspire more organizing throughout the South. </p> | |
| <p>In 2020, Virginia voted to give collective bargaining rights to municipal employees. If the union wins next week, it will likely inspire a wave of public sector organizing in Virginia’s DC suburbs and throughout the state. </p> | |
| <p>Workers across the country are inspired like never before after those big wins down South and there are likely to be more this summer. </p> | |
| <p>Payday wants to be out there covering this story. It’s important that workers see what’s happening so that workers continue to be inspired. </p> | |
| <p>We want to build up a travel fund so big that we can go anywhere at any time to cover what’s happening. We are hoping to raise $20,000 this summer to build a permanent travel reserve fund. </p> | |
| <p>Payday Report has always been ahead of the curve and we think that we are gonna see a “Hot Shop Union Summer” like none other this year. </p> | |
| <p>The Washington Post credited <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/">Payday’s Strike Tracker as being the first to systematically track the strike wave from its beginning in March of 2022.</a> The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/business/media/labor-unions-media-coverage.html">New York Times described us as a labor publication with “new energy” </a>and our work with CNN was even nominated for an Emmy. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCedYMbxhF4">(Be sure to check out our interview with a formerly anti-union worker that got a combined 500,000 views on YouTube and Twitter) </a></p> | |
| <p>We may be a small labor publication based in Pittsburgh, but we have had a big impact on the national conversation. </p> | |
| <p>By raising $20,000 this summer, we will be able to build a solid travel fund that allows us to cover the uprisings happening across the country. </p> | |
| <p>For years, we have relied on crowdfunding, but now we are starting to receive grant money. We are now building a Reader Coop Advisory Board to help us attract new streams of revenue and support for the publication. </p> | |
| <p>However, our ability to attract grant money is heavily based on our ability to crowdfund. The more financially sustainable that we can demonstrate that we are, the more likely larger foundations will invest. </p> | |
| <p>So, we are going to push to raise $20,000 this summer to build up a reserve fund to cover the big union organizing outbreak starting this summer. </p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate">Donate to Help Us Cover “Hot Shop, Union Summer”.</a></p> | |
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| <title>12,100 on Strike at UCLA & UC Davis – After 8 Migrant Farmworkers Die, Pressure Mounts for Reform – Mercedes Used at least 11 Unionbusters</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/12100-on-strike-at-ucla-uc-davis-after-8-migrant-farmworker-die-pressure-mounts-for-reform-mercedes-used-at-least-11-unionbusters/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 23:25:29 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where we are preparing to announce some major news from a major funder (stay tuned).  $1,050 Raised for “Hot Shop,...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where we are preparing to announce some major news from a major funder (stay tuned). </p> | |
| <p><strong>$1,050 Raised for “Hot Shop, Union Summer” Fund </strong></p> | |
| <p>A key to sustaining our funding is our ability to continue crowdfunding. So far, we have raised $1,050 for our “Hot Shop, Union Summer” Fund to get out on the road. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/hot-shop-union-summer-travel-fund/">Donate to help us cover “Hot Shop, Union Summer”.</a> Please, if you can,<a href="https://paydayreport.com/hot-shop-union-summer-travel-fund/"> sign up as one of our 378 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>12,100 Employees on Strike at UCLA and UC Davis </strong></p> | |
| <p>At UC Davis and UCLA, over 12,100 graduate employees, members of the UAW, are on strike, joining UC Santa Cruz graduate employees who struck last week. </p> | |
| <p>Since their union is supporting a ceasefire in Gaza, the union is alleging that violent police retaliation against them is a violation of union rights. It’s the first time that a union in the US has used such legal logic to strike and could inspire more strikes. </p> | |
| <p>“We’re at a total inflection point in the labor movement right now,” <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-28/ucla-uc-davis-brace-for-strike-as-union-alleges-free-speech-violations-in-pro-palestinian-protests">McCann, a USC civil engineering graduate student worker told LA Times.</a> “The fact that they’re taking a stand to hold their university accountable is historic.” USC graduate workers were attending the picket in support.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-28/ucla-uc-davis-brace-for-strike-as-union-alleges-free-speech-violations-in-pro-palestinian-protests">For more, check out LA Times. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Mercedes Employed 11 Union Busters in Alabama</strong></p> | |
| <p>HuffPost labor reporter Dave Jamieson has used <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mercedes-anti-union-consultants_n_6655e9fbe4b052122749b67d">federal records to show that Mercedes employed at least 11 union busters</a> from 3 different consulting firms to defeat the UAW in Alabama (<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mercedes-anti-union-consultants_n_6655e9fbe4b052122749b67d">See his story here)</a>. </p> | |
| <p>The employment of 11 full-time union busters, gives us a sense of the degree of sophistication that Mercedes employed to target employees, often employing psychological surveys to figure out which workers would be anti-union. </p> | |
| <p>The disclosure of the use of so many union busters comes as a result of a federal filing posted only after the UAW election. The delay in disclosing this information has led some to call for changes to disclosure rules. </p> | |
| <p>“Few workers are aware of the great lengths (and expense) to which their employers go to deprive them of a union. If they did know, perhaps they would treat union-busters’ – who often present themselves to workers as neutral educators – claims with a bit more skepticism,” <a href="https://onlabor.org/mercedes-use-of-union-busters-in-tennessee-highlights-the-need-for-disclosure-reform/">wrote labor lawyer Sharon Block and Reed Shaw.</a> “Congress wanted workers to know when they were being manipulated by professional union-busters. That’s one reason it passed the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) long ago in 1959.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://onlabor.org/mercedes-use-of-union-busters-in-tennessee-highlights-the-need-for-disclosure-reform/">For more, check out On Labor. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Pharmacy Workers File for More Union Elections at CVS</strong></p> | |
| <p>Following the pandemic, we have seen a massive uptick in the organizing of pharmacists. This week, two CVS pharmacies are moving to unionize in Rhode Island. The filings are the fourth and fifth NLRB petitions filed for union elections at CVS in less than 2 months. </p> | |
| <p>“We are proud to join our colleagues in standing up for the improved conditions our patients deserve,” said Chris DesRochers, a pharmacy technician at Rhode Island CVS Wakefield in a statement. “By forming a wall-to-wall pharmacy union, where all pharmacy workers will be covered, we are building a union with the power to bring true change.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.goiam.org/news/imail/two-new-groups-of-pharmacy-workers-file-to-unionize-with-the-pharmacy-guild-in-cvs-homestate-of-rhode-island/">For more, check out the Pharmacy Guild. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Unions Condemn Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis for Veto of Captive Audience Ban </strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier this month, Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis vetoed a bill, which would ban captive audience anti-union meetings. Unions in the state were outraged by his veto. </p> | |
| <p>“Governor Polis’ decision to veto the Worker Freedom Act sends a deeply disappointing message to workers who have supported him and his agenda, including Teamsters Local 455 members, that their priorities are not important in the state capitol,” said Dean Modecker, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 455. “In vetoing this legislation passed by both the Colorado House and Senate, the governor is ignoring the will of the people and the state legislature. The fight does not end here, and the Teamsters will hold Governor Polis accountable for this decision.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.cpr.org/2024/05/23/democrats-rally-against-governors-veto-of-workers-rights-bills/">For more, check out Colorado Public Radio</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>After 8 Farmworkers Killed, Pressure Mounts to Require Seatbelts on Migrant Worker Busses</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, a bus carrying farmworkers was hit by a drunk driver earlier this month; killing 8 farmworkers. </p> | |
| <p>Now, workers rights groups are pressuring the Florida legislature to require seat belts on old school buses that carry migrant farmworkers into the field. From the <em>Miami Herald</em>: </p> | |
| <p>“In the early 2000s, lawmakers were inundated with a series of news stories and reports about poor conditions faced by people working in Florida’s agricultural fields. Florida’s governor at the time, Jeb Bush, called for laws to protect farmworkers from exploitation and advocated for pay raises for laborers. </p> | |
| <p>But a state legislative commission dedicated to migrant labor issues, including transportation concerns in light of the 2004 crash, hasn’t met since 2006 following lack of interest from legislative leaders. Lawmakers in recent years ignored calls for safety reforms like mandatory water breaks and access to shade for workers. Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has long pushed for cracking down on illegal immigration and migrant labor, this year signed a bill banning local governments from passing ordinances that provide workers protection from the heat.</p> | |
| <p>In the two weeks since the crash, DeSantis hasn’t posted on social media or held news conferences to talk about those who died or were injured.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article288808235.html">For more, check out the <em>Miami Herald</em>. </a></p> | |
| <p>Strikes & News Happening Elsewhere</p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-sees-six-fold-rise-employee-concerns-product-safety-quality-2024-05-24/">Boeing sees 600% increase in safety complaints from employees </a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/arts/design/seattle-museum-walkout-gaza.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare">Seattle museum workers walk out over censorship of pro-Gaza art exhibit</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-28/hollywood-crew-unemployed-fewer-jobs-la-production-decline">Hollywood crews in crisis as jobs continue to decline. </a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.metrotimes.com/news/hamtramck-city-council-passes-resolution-demanding-boycott-divestment-of-israel-36398893">Hamtramck City Council passes resolution calling for disinvestment from Israel</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/when-stellantis-fired-temps-toledo-jeep-we-marched-plant-management">Toledo Stellantis worker reports on how they marched on the boss after temps were fired </a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-29/samsung-union-plans-first-ever-strike-as-wage-talks-break-down">Samsung workers plan to strike for the first time ever in Korea</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-05-29-has-organized-labor-finally-cracked-south/">Finally, Luke Goldstein at the American Prospect has a look at growing southern contract victories in the South</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright folks,that’s all for today. Keep sending story ideas, comments and complaints to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-29/samsung-union-plans-first-ever-strike-as-wage-talks-break-down">Donate to our “Hot Shop, Union Summer” Fund</a>. Please, if you can, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-29/samsung-union-plans-first-ever-strike-as-wage-talks-break-down">sign up as one of our 778 recurring donors today. </a>Thanks again for your support. </p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>‘Masters of the Air’ Lead Harry Crosby Was an Anti-War Leader</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/masters-of-the-air-lead-harry-crosby-was-an-anti-war-leader/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 05:34:57 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[In the hit Apple TV series “Masters of the Air,” about the brutal losses faced by the 8th Air Force, 100th Bomb Group, in Europe, Anthony...]]></description> | |
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| <p>In the hit Apple TV series “<em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-1JCRguZ0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Masters of the Air</a></em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-1JCRguZ0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">,</a>” about the brutal losses faced by the 8th Air Force, 100th Bomb Group, in Europe, Anthony Boyle plays the lead character Harry Crosby, who narrates the show. </p> | |
| <p>The series is based partially on Crosby’s book<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Wing-Prayer-Bloody-Eighth-Action/dp/1504067339/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1U3WMLOYSQND7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.43D9CX52ADhMreuTo1IkGWwvIZ1e8qduLXdZrQSd9CvGPA-K-l2YMmoUiwqdfNtduFQ23glXkp11v7yp2Y3P5YuUY1iubR2ypHgoHNlk2kuROIs0ESbYtDaXXSvRf-iwkECcm1-XJ1qKqEnrtAY_TLAnzxfNJKeC5qrgpFGbiyX4gsl2Lc34uERvmuozzAsUB3YsdqKOsALxzfKjykkFFhcuWMM7oV1pnqykMpLZz7g.VdieXLatThwOL_3CR52ychxZAqnsuVyDCUaUmkPttLU&dib_tag=se&keywords=a+wing+and+a+prayer&qid=1716783840&s=books&sprefix=a+wing+and+a+prayer%2Cstripbooks%2C105&sr=1-1" rel="noreferrer noopener"> </a><em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Wing-Prayer-Bloody-Eighth-Action/dp/1504067339/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1U3WMLOYSQND7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.43D9CX52ADhMreuTo1IkGWwvIZ1e8qduLXdZrQSd9CvGPA-K-l2YMmoUiwqdfNtduFQ23glXkp11v7yp2Y3P5YuUY1iubR2ypHgoHNlk2kuROIs0ESbYtDaXXSvRf-iwkECcm1-XJ1qKqEnrtAY_TLAnzxfNJKeC5qrgpFGbiyX4gsl2Lc34uERvmuozzAsUB3YsdqKOsALxzfKjykkFFhcuWMM7oV1pnqykMpLZz7g.VdieXLatThwOL_3CR52ychxZAqnsuVyDCUaUmkPttLU&dib_tag=se&keywords=a+wing+and+a+prayer&qid=1716783840&s=books&sprefix=a+wing+and+a+prayer%2Cstripbooks%2C105&sr=1-1" rel="noreferrer noopener">“A Wing and a Prayer: The “Bloody 100th” Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II.”</a> </em></p> | |
| <p>When Crosby arrived in 1943, nearly one-third of all airmen were being killed, and another one-third were captured. Crosby, the group’s navigator, flew on 32 combat missions and was one of the few original members who arrived in 1943 and would be active in the unit in 1945. </p> | |
| <p>Crosby died in 2010 at the age of 91, but the new Apple TV series has generated renewed interest in his writing and his book. </p> | |
| <p>At the end of the series, Crosby and his wife are mentioned as having become teachers and serving on the board of the local PTA at the schools his children attend. </p> | |
| <p>However, the show’s closing credits do not mention that the war hero later played a prominent role in the fight against the war in Vietnam. </p> | |
| <p>In 1970, Harry Crosby helped to mastermind the primary defeat of Phil Pilbin, a 28-year incumbent on the House Armed Services Committee, and the election of Father Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest and Dean of Boston College Law School. Drinan became a leading national voice against the war in Vietnam. </p> | |
| <p>“He had no sort of childish glorification of it at all,” his son Jeff Crosby, retired president of IUE-CWA Local 201 at GE in Lynn, Mass, of his father in a Memorial Day interview for Payday Report. </p> | |
| <p>“He said, how many people who were on the receiving end of the bombing might have become tradespeople or, you know, professors or scientists or who knows what, and he always had mixed feelings about that, he always regretted it,” says Crosby. </p> | |
| <p>However, Jeff says his father was proud of his service in the 100th Bomb Group. </p> | |
| <p>“He thought it was necessary to defeat fascism, and he would do it all again,” says Jeff Crosby. </p> | |
| <p>After the war, Harry Crosby got involved in a variety of community and civil rights causes. As a World War Two veteran, Jeff says his father, Harry, supported the civil rights movement in the 1960s. In the late 1960s, he even let Jeff attend a North Carolina Freedom School, encouraging him to be civically engaged. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Crosby’s Anti-Vietnam War Activism</strong></p> | |
| <p>During the Vietnam War, Harry Crosby helped mastermind the Father Drinan campaign. In 1970, the campaign toppled a prominent House Armed Services Committee member. The loss demonstrated how unpopular the war had become among the Democratic Party’s more mainstream base. </p> | |
| <p>However, according to Crosby’s son, Jeff, his Dad was not always so anti-war. </p> | |
| <p>“He was tough. He was smart and argued with me all the time, you know, particularly about the war in Vietnam as it developed,” says Crosby. </p> | |
| <p>After Crosby, as a 16-year-old, got involved in the 1967 Vietnam Summer, going door-to-door to talk to people about the need to end the Vietnam War, he says that he and his father began to argue intensely about the war. </p> | |
| <p>“It was hard for him to contemplate the notion that his country was on the wrong side of something like that,” says Crosby. “I remember very clearly a conversation we had sitting on the stairs of our home, and he said ‘I just don’t understand how you can think you know more than Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara,'” who also served in the 8th Air Force during World War Two. </p> | |
| <p>However, he said that his father began to read more about the Vietnam War and engage a variety of voices on Vietnam. </p> | |
| <p>“He was a smart person, he was rigorous. He would read opinions other than his own. He wasn’t blind, he wasn’t myopic,” says Jeff of his father, Harry Crosby. </p> | |
| <p>Crosby says that around 1968, his Dad began to shift against the war in Vietnam and then immediately got involved in working against it. </p> | |
| <p>“When he changed as a citizen, as someone who benefited from being in this country and had a responsibility to make the world as good as it could be, he got involved and he and my mom, both were very active,” says Crosby. “And they got a crew together with many others at the time to decide upon who was the best candidate to challenge the incumbent.” </p> | |
| <p>Eventually, they recruited a Jesuit priest, Father Robert Drinan, the Dean of the Boston College Law School, to run against Phil Philbin, a 28-year incumbent who sat on the House Armed Services committee.</p> | |
| <p>“They worked hard, and my mom became the office manager for Father Drinan when he won the election,” says Crosby. </p> | |
| <p>Drinan narrowly beat Philbin. As a Congressman, Drinan became a leading anti-war voice. In 1973, Drinan went on to introduce the articles of impeachment against President Nixon for the illegal bombing of Cambodia.</p> | |
| <p>Crosby says his Dad was always proud of his contribution to helping change the national conversation on the war. </p> | |
| <p>“He thought that was one of the highlights of his life, that he had made that kind of contribution,” says Crosby. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Civil Rights Activism Shaped by World War Two Experiences</strong></p> | |
| <p>Harry Crosby grew up in the small town of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and attended the University of Iowa. Before World War Two, Jeff says that his father had even been skeptical of FDR’s New Deal, but after the war, he was able to go to Stanford for his PhD for free on the GI Bill and saw social investment differently. </p> | |
| <p>During World War Two, Harry Crosby, while stationed in England, formed friendships with people from a variety of races and regions. Jeff Crosby also felt that his father’s close relationship with Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal, a main character in <em>Masters of the Air,</em> helped his father become an activist later in life on civil rights issues. </p> | |
| <p>Rosenthal was a Jewish B-17 pilot who was shot down twice and volunteered for an extra tour of duty beyond the required 25 combat missions. Rosenthal’s 52 combat missions were the most of any pilot in the 100th Bomb Group. After the war, Rosenthal would serve as a prosecutor at Nuremberg. </p> | |
| <p>“My dad used to say Rosie always reminded us, just by his life, and by his work, he reminded us about what this war was about,” says Crosby.</p> | |
| <p>Rosenthal was often asked if being Jewish was why he volunteered to fly 27 additional missions after meeting the 25 combat missions required to be transferred home. </p> | |
| <p>“Everything I’ve done or hope to do is because I hate persecution. A human being has to look out for other human beings or there’s no civilization”,<a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/obituaries/29rosenthal.html" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Rosenthal told Donald L. Miller in the book “Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany” (2006).</a></p> | |
| <p>After the war, Crosby says that his Dad, Harry, fought against antisemitism and for civil rights, partly inspired by his wartime experiences. </p> | |
| <p>“He was very powerfully against antisemitism. There were some tensions between the older neighbors and Jews who were moving into the neighborhood, he was always welcoming,” says Crosby. </p> | |
| <p>After being elected to Newton City Council in 1970, Harry Crosby fought against housing discrimination and for building low-income housing in the affluent, heavily white community. </p> | |
| <p>“He fought for fair housing in the city. He fought to open that up, that was a long, long standing effort that he was involved in,” says Jeff Crosby. </p> | |
| <p>As a trade unionist involved in anti-war and civil rights organizing, Jeff says his father continues to inspire him. With his Dad getting so much attention in the hit Apple TV series <em>Masters of the AIr</em>, he thinks of a closing passage in his Dad’s book <em>A Wing and a Prayer</em>. </p> | |
| <p>“Was it a good war? Did we have to fight it? Studs Terkel, when he writes about “the last good war,” says that it was, and we did,” wrote Harry Crosby, referring to oral historian Studs Terkel’s 1985 Pulitzer-winning book <em>The Good War</em>,</p> | |
| <p>However, Crosby said that while he thought the war was necessary, he had doubts about the lives lost. </p> | |
| <p>“I have learned to live with ambiguity,” Crosby writes. “I remember the cities we destroyed, and the German poets and inventors we stilled, but I remember the time we went to the edge when we put our lives on the line, for a cause that we believed to be just. I remember my friends, those who made it through and those who did not, I remember the tragedies, and the horror, but I remember the laughter.” </p> | |
| <p>He closes his book by telling the story of a girl in Nazi-occupied Holland who feared the sounds of the American bombers overhead. Her father assured her that the sounds of the bombers were “the sounds of angels.” </p> | |
| <p>“Was it worth it? Those years? Those lives? That destruction? I still don’t know,” concludes Crosby. “But I do know that I, too, heard the angels.” </p> | |
| <p>Jeff Crosby believes that those days spent fighting alongside so many who died trying to defeat fascism likely inspired his father later in his life to get involved in the fight against the Vietnam War and for civil rights. </p> | |
| <p>“It was a deeply held belief that he had as an activist and always felt responsible for leaving this world better than he found it.,” says his son Jeff. </p> | |
| <p><em>You can find a copy of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Wing-Prayer-Bloody-Eighth-Action/dp/1504067339/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1U3WMLOYSQND7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.43D9CX52ADhMreuTo1IkGWwvIZ1e8qduLXdZrQSd9CvGPA-K-l2YMmoUiwqdfNtduFQ23glXkp11v7yp2Y3P5YuUY1iubR2ypHgoHNlk2kuROIs0ESbYtDaXXSvRf-iwkECcm1-XJ1qKqEnrtAY_TLAnzxfNJKeC5qrgpFGbiyX4gsl2Lc34uERvmuozzAsUB3YsdqKOsALxzfKjykkFFhcuWMM7oV1pnqykMpLZz7g.VdieXLatThwOL_3CR52ychxZAqnsuVyDCUaUmkPttLU&dib_tag=se&keywords=a+wing+and+a+prayer&qid=1716783840&s=books&sprefix=a+wing+and+a+prayer%2Cstripbooks%2C105&sr=1-1" rel="noreferrer noopener">Crosby’s 1993 classic “A Wing and a Prayer: The “Bloody 100th” Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II” here. </a></em></p> | |
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| <title>NCAA to Pay College Athletes After 10-Year Legal Battle – UAW Wins at Mercedes in Manhattan – UAW Rank-and-File Critique Fain’s PR Strategy</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/ncaa-to-pay-college-athletes-after-10-year-legal-battle-uaw-wins-at-mercedes-in-manhattan-uaw-rank-and-file-critique-fainspr-strategy/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 05:35:31 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I am exhausted but tracking historical development in the NCAA. After over 100 years, the league has agreed to start paying its players. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://x.com/MikeElk/status/1793839327883170018">Big thanks to Capital & Main Editor Marcus Baram’s dope Sun Ra mix for keeping me going</a>. Some historic news as <a href="https://paydayreport.com/hot-shop-union-summer-travel-fund/">“Hot Shop, Union Summer”</a> heats up. </p> | |
| <p><strong>After Ten-Year Legal Battle, NCAA to Start Paying College Athletes </strong></p> | |
| <p>In a historic move, the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/ncaa-signs-deal-change-landscape-college-sports-paying-student-athlete-rcna153852">NCAA and its power conferences, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, and Pac-12, have agreed to let colleges start paying college athletes. </a></p> | |
| <p>The decision could affect the lives of tens of thousands of college athletes. The changes resulted from a ten-year old class action lawsuit challenging the NCAA’s refusal to pay college athletes. </p> | |
| <p>From ESPN: </p> | |
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| <p>The NCAA and its leagues are moving forward with a multibillion-dollar agreement to settle three pending federal antitrust cases. The NCAA will pay more than $2.7 billion in damages over ten years to past and current athletes, sources told ESPN. Sources said the parties also have agreed to a revenue-sharing plan allowing each school to share up to roughly $20 million per year with its athletes.</p> | |
| <p>“The five autonomy conferences and the NCAA agreeing to settlement terms is an important step in the continuing reform of college sports that will provide benefits to student-athletes and provide clarity in college athletics across all divisions for years to come,” NCAA president Charlie Baker and the five power conference commissioners said in a joint statement Thursday evening.</p> | |
| <p>“This settlement is also a road map for college sports leaders and Congress to ensure this uniquely American institution can continue to provide unmatched opportunity for millions of students. All of Division I made today’s progress possible, and we all have work to do to implement the terms of the agreement as the legal process continues. We look forward to working with our various student-athlete leadership groups to write the next chapter of college sports.”</p> | |
| <p>All Division I athletes dating back to 2016 are eligible to receive a share as part of the settlement class. In exchange, athletes cannot sue the NCAA for other potential antitrust violations and drop their complaints in three open cases — House v. NCAA, Hubbard v. NCAA and Carter v. NCAA.</p> | |
| <p><strong><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40206364/ncaa-power-conferences-agree-allow-schools-pay-players" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out ESPN.com. </a></strong></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/1793839848698364097?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">Ace Yahoo college football reporter Ross Delinger has an in-depth breakdown of the what the deal and ten-year NCAA fight means. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>UAW Wins at Mercedes Dealership in Upstate New York as “Hot Shop, Union Summer” Heats Up </strong></p> | |
| <p>While the UAW may have lost last week at a 5,000-person Mercedes shop in Alabama, they won this week at a Mercedes. However, in New York City, the UAW has struck a blow against Mercedes at a key shop in Manhattan. </p> | |
| <p>On Thursday, the NLRB announced that workers at a Mercedes dealership in New York City had voted to unionize with UAW Local 259 by a margin of 31-18. </p> | |
| <p>It’s likely that the UAW will hold many such elections in smaller shops this summer. While the union may have been defeated taking on a 5,000-person shop, smaller shops are much easier to organize. </p> | |
| <p>It’s one of many union elections that we suspect will occur this summer in supplier and car shops associated with major brands. </p> | |
| <p>“Workers rights, how to build power and win economic justice is so desperately needed all across our Country. These brave workers bonded together, shocked MB USA to its core, and showed us all that nothing is impossible,”<a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/local259/posts/pfbid06gCBHMFcCzzpYR1X2kafMk2yFC7fPa8Q1aVDdrNo3WyLMTVd1V6xHgZbVArAm63Hl" rel="noreferrer noopener"> said UAW Local 259 on their Facebook page. </a></p> | |
| <p>Earlier this month, members of UAW Local 259, which won the union election, had been on strike at a nearby Kia dealership, helping to inspire many of the workers in the plant. </p> | |
| <p>Following its victory at the Mercedes dealership in Manhattan, the union plans to target more auto shops in the area. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/local259/posts/pfbid06gCBHMFcCzzpYR1X2kafMk2yFC7fPa8Q1aVDdrNo3WyLMTVd1V6xHgZbVArAm63Hl" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out UAW Local 259’s Facebook page. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Donate to Cover “Hot Shop, Union Summer” at Suppliers. </strong></p> | |
| <p>Across the United States, we will see an increase in union organizing this summer. The Volkswagen win and other high-profile labor wins have motivated workers nationwide. </p> | |
| <p>Some will lose, and some will win, but there will be a lot of winning, particularly in the smaller “hot shops” this summer. Payday hopes to get out there and cover this “Hot Shop Union Summer.” </p> | |
| <p><strong><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/hot-shop-union-summer-travel-fund/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to Help Us Cover this “Hot Shop, Union Summer”</a></strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>UAW Mercedes Leaders Question PR Strategy </strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier this week, Payday was criticized for writing a story about <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/uaw-admits-digital-heavy-organizing-committee-light-approach-failed-them-in-alabama-at-mercedes/" rel="noreferrer noopener">how a weak organizing committee and digital media-heavy approach sunk the UAW at Mercedes in Alabama. </a></p> | |
| <p>Now, in an op-ed for Labor Notes, rank-and-file UAW organizer Jeremy Kimbrell has also questioned the PR strategy-driven focus that led the UAW to skip vital steps in building an organizing committee. From Labor Notes: </p> | |
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| <p>What would I do differently? Our company didn’t launch an active anti-union campaign until after we announced that we had 30 percent union cards signed. While that announcement generated excitement, it also triggered the company probably earlier than they would’ve otherwise.</p> | |
| <p>Also, a chorus of “let’s vote” became louder and louder, because legally 30 percent is the minimum you need to file for election. It was very distracting and took away from where the focus needed to be: building a pro-union majority.</p> | |
| <p>You can vote with 30 percent, but you damn sure can’t win. I liked the buzz that the 30 percent announcement created, but maybe we should’ve waited a bit longer to announce or not even announce at all. It’s debatable.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/why-alabama-mercedes-union-campaign-faltered" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Labor Notes. </a></p> | |
| <p><em>We’ll have more tomorrow on whats happening with the UAW after Mercedes – feel free to email ideas of thoughts to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </em></p> | |
| <p><strong>Links & News Elsewhere</strong></p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-21/university-of-california-seeks-injunction-to-immediately-halt-academic-workers-strike" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">UC seeks injunction to halt strike as academic workers threaten to expand walkouts</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/business/seattle-area-electrician-strike-stretches-beyond-five-weeks/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Seattle-area electrician strike stretches beyond five weeks</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://newsguild.org/ufcw-guild-staff-to-hold-one-day-unfair-labor-practice-strike/?" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">UFCW Guild Staff To Hold One Day Unfair Labor Practice Strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2024/05/23/hospital-nurses-seek-join-union" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Nurses Seek to Join Union</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/health/2024/05/20/christianacare-physicians-first-in-state-to-file-to-form-union/73719214007/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Physicians file to unionize at ChristianaCare in Delaware</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/05/inside-the-student-movement-that-forced-irelands-trinity-college-to-divest-from-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Inside the student movement that forced Ireland’s Trinity College to divest from Israel</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/19/undocumented-workers-sand-dunes-mushroom-co-op/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A workers’ co-op rises from the remains of a Colorado mushroom farm</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.climbing.com/gym-climbing/climbing-gyms-are-unionizing-what-does-that-mean-for-our-community/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Climbing Gym activists examine what an increasingly unionized Climbing Gym looks like. </a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.limaohio.com/top-stories/2024/05/21/reminisce-1917-streetcar-strike-ends-in-gunfire/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finally, a look at the violence that meet the 1917 Lima, Ohio Street Car Strike </a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright, folks, I desperately need to go to bed. Feel free to email [email protected] if there are any typos, you have any thoughts, suggestions or just wanna share a link. </p> | |
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| <p><strong>Love & Solidarity, </strong></p> | |
| <p>Melk </p> | |
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| <title>UAW Admits Digital Heavy, Organizing Committee Light Approach Failed Them in Alabama at Mercedes</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/uaw-admits-digital-heavy-organizing-committee-light-approach-failed-them-in-alabama-at-mercedes/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 02:32:10 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I am dealing with some health issues. We will have more stories and reactions to the historic UAW loss coming out early next week, but I’d like to fill in all of our readers with what we have learned so far. </p> | |
| <p>My sense from talking to union leaders over the phone is that the digital-heavy and organizing committee-light approach made the UAW unable to withstand Mercedes’ “give us one more chance” plea after they fired their plant manager. </p> | |
| <p><strong>A Digital-Quick & Traditional Organizing Comittee Light Approach</strong></p> | |
| <p>Rather than using traditional organizing committee structures, the UAW relied heavily on digital meetings, a light staff approach from the international union, and getting workers to sign union cards via QR codes. Given the positive media coverage of the UAW in the “Stand Up Strike,” many UAW leaders were confident they could win using this approach. </p> | |
| <p>After filing with 70%, the UAW believed they would maintain their margin and win at similar margins to the 73% victory of UAW workers in Chattanooga. However, the UAW lost 44%-56% in Alabama amid charges that the company used backroom manipulation tactics against workers. These tactics may be illegal in Germany and <a href="https://paydayreport.com/with-70-sign-up-25-year-mercedes-alabama-uaw-alabama-worker-activist-talks/">could cause Mercedes to get into legal trouble. </a></p> | |
| <p>However, the union bled support in the face of manipulation and a disinformation campaign. Many workers bought into Mercedes’ pleas to give them another chance and voted against the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>Kirk Garner said the union was caught off guard as the company’s anti-union meetings were very low-key backroom affairs and targeted specific departments. The company conducted physiological profiles of workers and only invited “persuadable” workers to anti-union meetings.</p> | |
| <p>“Hopefully, we can work out some of the issues, you know, we had here and now hopefully, the Labor Board will flip the mandatory captive audience meeting room. And we won’t have to endure that again next year”, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-filing-with-70-uaw-loses-44-56-in-alabama/">said Garner in an interview with Payday Report. </a></p> | |
| <p>The UAW doesn’t see the 44%-56% vote as a sign of defeat. Often, unions try multiple times before winning. The UAW tried twice at Volkswagen in Chattanooga in 2014 and 2019 before winning big in 2024, but at Mercedes, this was the first time workers had seen the company’s manipulation, psychological profiling, and complex disinformation tactics. </p> | |
| <p>“The company told the workers to give the new CEO a chance. That’s exactly what Volkswagen told its workers in 2019. And in 2024, Volkswagen workers realized it’s not about a CEO,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. </p> | |
| <p>Mercedes offered time off the grueling assembly line in these meetings and asked workers to “give them another chance.” As a sign of good faith, Mercedes eliminated a two-tier wage system and gave what UAW Communications Director Jonah Furman has labeled a “UAW Pay Bump.” </p> | |
| <p>After months of more personalized meetings with plant workers, Mercedes decided to fire the plant manager. The new plant manager, Federico Kochlowski, went on a charm offensive and won many workers over. It was yet another sign that Mercedes was willing to change without bringing in the UAW, which was painted as an outside union from Detroit. </p> | |
| <p><strong>National Champion Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban Throws UAW under the Bus </strong></p> | |
| <p>Late in the campaign, Alabama football coach Nick Saban started disparaging the UAW in the press, a distraction the UAW did not need, while Mercedes worked hard to sow doubts among hesitant workers. </p> | |
| <p>Legendary Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban, who coached Alabama for 16 years, had asked <a href="https://paydayreport.com/category/newsletter/">UAW ally More Perfect Union to take down an ad in which the famous football coach praised the UAW. </a></p> | |
| <p>“It never scares me that people are organized. General Motors and the automotive industry has had unions for a long time, and they’ve survived, fairly well I think,” <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/nick-saban-says-union-uses-his-words-out-of-context-asks-uaw-to-pull-mercedes-vote-ads.html">Saban says in a pro-union ad run by the pro-union group More Perfect Union</a>. </p> | |
| <p>“There’s been a lot of businesses that have been successful and worked with unions for many, many years. So I’m not anti-union. Unionize it, make it like the NFL,” he said of college football players seeking to unionize. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/category/newsletter/">Payday Report learned that the University of Alabama had gotten YouTube to take down More Perfect Union’s ad</a>, which features Saban’s endorsement of unions. The University of Alabama has claimed copyright infringement because More Perfect Union displayed the university logo in the video’s background. </p> | |
| <p>The controversy created by the famous Alabama football coach made the UAW look bad, and the company begged workers to give them “just one more chance.” </p> | |
| <p><strong>Mercedes’ “Give Me One More Chance to Fix Things” Approach</strong></p> | |
| <p>The UAW did not have a traditional organizing committee that regularly assessed each worker. In some unions like the UE, the union will appoint one shop steward for every ten workers. This way, the union knows precisely how each worker feels. </p> | |
| <p>However, after the “Stand Up Strike,” the UAW hoped to move fast. They adopted a staff-light, digital-heavy approach that emphasized speed over building deep committees. Workers like Kirk Garner, who had been involved in organizing on the shop floor, thought it was a gamble but worth it. </p> | |
| <p>“This is a new age—we’re in the digital age—and it’s somewhat of a new way of organizing from older people to younger people,” says Garner. “I think we saw it in Amazon in New York. They used a lot of internet and phones instead of traditional house calling, having big committee meetings, you know, three or four days a week.” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/with-70-sign-up-25-year-mercedes-alabama-uaw-alabama-worker-activist-talks/"><em>(Listen to our podcast on how the UAW was using digital media to promote an entirely different approach at UAW)</em></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>A Union PR Game that Didn’t Resonate In Plant Backrooms</strong></p> | |
| <p>Before the Volkswagen union vote in April, UAW leaders publicly declared on Twitter that there would be a blowout victory at Chattanooga ahead of the final vote. </p> | |
| <p>After the 73% vote was announced at Volkswagen in April, <a href="https://x.com/JonahFurman/status/1781539894092787784">UAW Communications Director Jonah Furman tweeted</a>, “We keep telling you we’re gonna win. And we keep winning.”</p> | |
| <p>The day before the Mercedes vote, UAW leaders told publications, including ours, that they would win big in Alabama. </p> | |
| <p>In Alabama, the UAW filed with 70% of workers signing up before the Volkswagen vote in early April. UAW officials and other reporters told us they had gained members after the positive media coverage of the win in Chattanooga. </p> | |
| <p>“It came real quick by hundreds and hundreds of people,” <a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-filing-with-70-uaw-loses-44-56-in-alabama/">Garner told us earlier this month in describing union momentum at the plant in Alabama following Volkswagen’s 73% victory in Chattanooga.</a> “It was just like, immediate. People started jumping on board. And so with momentum (it) keeps on going. It’s just blossomed into this, probably over a 70% majority now. So we should end up about where Volkswagen did.” </p> | |
| <p>Heading into the high-profile vote, the media gave generally positive coverage of the union, with most media outlets predicting a win. </p> | |
| <p>As someone who spent a decade in the South covering many failed union drives, I, like many other labor reporters, wanted to believe that something had fundamentally changed after the UAW landslide 73% victory in Chattanooga.</p> | |
| <p>The positive media coverage, however, failed to resonate in the plant’s backrooms, where managers sowed doubts in personal one-on-one conversations about workplace conditions. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-filing-with-70-uaw-loses-44-56-in-alabama/">Now, after the 12% loss in Alabama</a>, Furman was defensive about the union’s bullishness leading up to the organizing-light approach. </p> | |
| <p>“All your best laid plans and theories and handbooks are nothing compared to real life experience. Trying stuff. Taking risks. Trying again,” tweeted Furman. “Mercedes Alabama has been open since 1993. This was the first union vote at the plant. We can’t keep watching and waiting forever.”</p> | |
| <p><strong>After 25 Years & Solid 1st Vote, UAW Mercedes Takes More Traditional Organizing Approach</strong>.</p> | |
| <p>UAW Local 112 Vice President Kirk Garner thinks it’s likely to see a union election within a year or two. It’s common for plants where workers lost by about 10% to win within a year or two after more workers are educated and engaged on union issues. </p> | |
| <p>Garner says he and the 2,000 of his co-workers who voted for the union are willing to keep working. After all, the union only lost by approximately 600 votes. Now, with time to build a more traditional organizing committee, Garner feels confident that the UAW can win. </p> | |
| <p>“Going forward, we’re gonna we’re going to, you know, change a few things and, and maybe, hopefully, you’ll have a different outcome a year from now,” says Garner. </p> | |
| <p>Kirk first got involved in union organizing in the late 1990s at Mercedes in Alabama when he was 35. Now 60 years old, Garner says he is determined to get a union at Mercedes in Alabama before he retires.</p> | |
| <p>When I asked Garner how he could continue fighting for 25 years on the shop floor, the 60-year-old Garner said it was because of his kids. </p> | |
| <p>“You just always hope that your kids don’t have to work as hard. I just hope my kids never work as hard as I did,” says Garner. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Stay Tuned for More Analysis Next Week of the Path Ahead for Organizing in the South</strong></p> | |
| <p><em>We will have more podcasts describing what happened in depth next week. We will take the day off tomorrow and be back next week.</em></p> | |
| <p><em>In the meanwhile, I’m gonna rest up and hope to get back out the road in the South. Email me at [email protected] and let us know what is happening down there as we prepare for a major road trip throughout the South next month. Thanks yinz as always. </em></p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate">Donate to Help Us Continue the Fight to Organize the South</a>.</p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk </p> | |
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| <p>Earlier this week, many within the UAW believed the union would win in its election at Mercedes. Union advocates told us that, like in Chattanooga, where workers won a union election last month with 73% voting in favor, Mercedes workers in Vance, Alabama, would vote for a union by a similar margin. </p> | |
| <p>However, Volkswagen had two prior union elections in 2014 and 2019 that were lost by similar margins to the margin of defeat at Mercedes. At Volkswagen, workers had heard all the manipulation of the boss two times prior and rejected it. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCedYMbxhF4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(See our interview with a previously anti-union worker at Volkswagen, who describes how he changed overtime)</a></p> | |
| <p>This was their first union election in 25 years of fighting for one at Mercedes. Mercedes responded swiftly, promising workers that they would do better. They even fired their plant manager and brought in a new one. </p> | |
| <p>After filing with 70%, the UAW believed they would maintain their margin. However, the union, in the face of manipulation and a disinformation campaign, bled support. Many workers bought Mercedes’ pleas to give them another chance and voted against the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>Kirk Garner, Vice President of UAW Local 112, the minority union at Mercedes, said the union was caught off guard. The company conducted physiological profiles of workers and only invited “persuadable” workers to anti-union meetings. </p> | |
| <p>In these meetings, Mercedes offered workers time off of the grueling assembly line and asked workers to “give them another chance.” </p> | |
| <p>Many workers fell for the company’s plea to “give them another chance.” Kirk Garner, Vice President of UAW Local 112, says that is precisely why legal changes need to be made to bar the manipulative power dynamics of captive audience union meetings. </p> | |
| <p>“Hopefully, the Labor Board will flip the mandatory captive audience meeting room. And we won’t have to endure that again,” says Garner. </p> | |
| <p>Despite the loss, the 43% vote shows a solid support base within the plant. The union has filed several charges for illegal union-busting against Mercedes. </p> | |
| <p>Not only is the union pursuing legal measures in the US, but also in Germany, where a new law holds employers liable for practices like captive audience meetings that are illegal under German law. </p> | |
| <p>In Chattanooga, Volkswagen workers similarly filed with solid support, only to narrowly lose. Mercedes workers say they are not discussed and will fight again another day. Garner says that his union will continue to organize</p> | |
| <p>“There will prolly be a quiet period for a while,” says Garner. “You know, two or three months not doing anything and then we will get back up in the fall.” </p> | |
| <p>Payday is releasing two podcasts with Kirk Garner that show how things changed throughout the union election. We will share those later in the week. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/hot-shop-union-summer-travel-fund/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to Help Us Keep Covering the Fight to Organize the South. </a></p> | |
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| <p>After the landslide victory at Volkswagen, the door is wide open to union organizing across the United States. It will be difficult, but there is a lot happening and we, as a labor publication, need to cover it.</p> | |
| <p>In early June, 29,000 teachers in Fairfax County, Virginia are going to vote in the largest union election in the South. And then, we are expecting a lot more union drives across the country. </p> | |
| <p>In union terminology, a “hot shop” is when smaller shops go pro-union suddenly. We are certainly going to see a “hot shop” union summer across this country. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/with-70-sign-up-25-year-mercedes-alabama-uaw-alabama-worker-activist-talks/"><em>(Be sure to check out interview with UAW Alabama leader Kurt Garner on 25 years of organizing at Mercedes in Alabama)</em></a></p> | |
| <p>Workers across the country are inspired like never before after those big wins down South and there are likely to be more this summer. </p> | |
| <p>Payday wants to be out there covering this story. It’s important that workers see what’s happening so that workers continue to be inspired. </p> | |
| <p>We want to build up a travel fund so big that we can go anywhere at any time to cover what’s happening. We are hoping to raise $20,000 this summer to build a permanent travel reserve fund. </p> | |
| <p>Payday Report has always been ahead of the curve and we think that we are gonna see a “Hot Shop Union Summer” like none other this year. </p> | |
| <p>The Washington Post credited <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/">Payday’s Strike Tracker as being the first to systematically track the strike wave from its beginning in March of 2022.</a> The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/business/media/labor-unions-media-coverage.html">New York Times described us as a labor publication with “new energy” </a>and our work with CNN was even nominated for an Emmy. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCedYMbxhF4">(Be sure to check out our interview with a formerly anti-union worker that got a combined 500,000 views on YouTube and Twitter) </a></p> | |
| <p>We may be a small labor publication based in Pittsburgh, but we have had a big impact on the national conversation. </p> | |
| <p>By raising $20,000 this summer, we will be able to build a solid travel fund that allows us to cover the uprisings happening across the country. </p> | |
| <p>For years, we have relied on crowdfunding, but now we are starting to receive grant money. We are now building a Reader Coop Advisory Board to help us attract new streams of revenue and support for the publication. </p> | |
| <p>However, our ability to attract grant money is heavily based on our ability to crowdfund. The more financially sustainable that we can demonstrate that we are, the more likely larger foundations will invest. </p> | |
| <p>So, we are going to push to raise $20,000 this summer to build up a reserve fund to cover the big union organizing outbreak starting this summer. </p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate">Donate to Help Us Cover “Hot Shop, Union Summer”.</a></p> | |
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| <title>With 70% Sign Up, 25-Year Shop Floor Mercedes UAW VP Talks How Things Changed in Alabama</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/with-70-sign-up-25-year-mercedes-alabama-uaw-alabama-worker-activist-talks/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 03:46:53 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Subscribe to our podcast for regular updates from workers on the front line of labor fights. Eleven years ago, I first met Kirk Garner, Vice...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Eleven years ago, I first met Kirk Garner, Vice President of UAW Local 112, the minority union at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama.</p> | |
| <p>After the UAW was narrowly defeated in a union drive in 2014, it formed minority unions at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. </p> | |
| <p>Both automakers were German and allowed the minority union in the South to sit in on meetings and discuss workplace issues with more sympathetic minds in union-heavy Germany. </p> | |
| <p>For ten years, the UAW couldn’t attract enough members to win, but folks like Kirk, who has been involved in union organizing efforts at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama, keep trying. </p> | |
| <p>“We’ve had a good network for the last two years, at Chattanooga, Volkswagen, they already had a minority union,” says Garner. “So they had a base to begin with, which helped speed things up. So you weren’t starting from scratch. And so we have a minority union at Mercedes.”</p> | |
| <p>When UAW filed for a union election at Mercedes in April, they filed with 70% of the workers having signed cards. After the Volkswagen victory, Garner says that interest has expanded dramatically. </p> | |
| <p>“it came real quick by hundreds and hundreds of people,” says Garner of the union, finally above 70%. “It was just like, immediate. People started jumping on board. And so with momentum (it) keeps on going. It’s just blossomed into this, probably over a 70% majority now. So we should end up about where Volkswagen did,” where the UAW won with 73% of the vote in Chattanooga in April, after two failed defeats. </p> | |
| <p>The twin minority unions in Alabama and Tennessee kept in touch. They went to meetings, international conferences and meet with the owners of the German automakers that employed them. They acted like a union and fought for ten years fought as minority union after fifteen years of failed union efforts at Mercedes. </p> | |
| <p>Garner says that the severe labor shortage has helped union efforts. Using Biden stimulus programs from the Inflation Recovery Act, Mercedes has used the federal government to pay for electricity. In the process, they had trouble finding workers.</p> | |
| <p>With the plant expanding and management trying to get any “body they can get in the door,” says Garner, power dynamics have changed dramatically in the shop. </p> | |
| <p>As the plant expanded, the automaker struggled to keep people employed, with wages starting at $21 an hour, and hired more prominent young workers. The younger workers at the plant seem much more receptive than Garner has seen in any of his 25 years of organizing. </p> | |
| <p>Garner says that 65% of the workforce is under 30. Interestingly, the UAW nationally is 30% university employees. Much like in higher education, young people are driving dramatic landslide victories in the auto industry. </p> | |
| <p>“When the labor shortage kicked in around COVID, a lot of older people left. So, the only people in the labor pool were the younger generation under 30. And so that’s what we’ve had to bring in. It’ll take years to balance out since we’ve got 65% under 30.”</p> | |
| <p>With many people needing help with childcare costs, it’s difficult to get together union members for multiple weekly in-person meetings. However, the union relies heavily on Zoom, which became famous for organizers during the pandemic. </p> | |
| <p>“This is a new age, we’re in the digital age, it’s somewhat of a new way of organizing from older people to younger people”. says Garner. “I think we saw it in Amazon in New York, they used a lot of internet and phones, instead of a traditional house calling, having big committee meetings, you know, three or four days a week.” </p> | |
| <p>Please listen to the lessons of how union activists combine new and old methods to organize across generations and races in the digital age. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3z8fihgB3UjHdX2aROc266?si=FVECkkxcSvu91CLfPQHPlw&nd=1&dlsi=ebd399b27aa043be"><em>Subscribe and listen to our podcast of 25 year shop floor veteran of Alabama Mercedes Drive UAW Local 149 Vice President Kirk Garner. </em></a></p> | |
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| <title>Podcast: Payday Report With 70% UAW Sign Up, 25-Year Mercedes UAW Veteran Talks</title> | |
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| <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 03:10:02 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[With 70% UAW Sign Up, 25-Year Mercedes UAW Veteran Talks By Mike Elk Eleven years ago, I first met Kirk Garner, Vice President of UAW Local 149, the minority union at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. After the UAW was narrowly defeated in a union drive in...]]></description> | |
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| <p>With 70% UAW Sign Up, 25-Year Mercedes UAW Veteran Talks</p> | |
| <p>By Mike Elk</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">Eleven years ago, I first met Kirk Garner, Vice President of UAW Local 112, the minority union at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">After the UAW was narrowly defeated in a union drive in 2014, it formed minority unions at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Mercedes in Vance, Alabama.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">Both automakers were German and allowed the minority union in the South to sit in on meetings and discuss workplace issues with more sympathetic minds in union-heavy Germany.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">For ten years, the UAW couldn’t attract enough members to win, but folks like Kirk, who has been involved in union organizing efforts at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama, keep trying.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">“We’ve had a good network for the last two years, at Chattanooga, Volkswagen, they already had a minority union,” says Garner. “So they had a base to begin with, which helped speed things up. So you weren’t starting from scratch. And so we have a minority union at Mercedes.”</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">When UAW filed for a union election at Mercedes in April, they filed with 70% of the workers having signed cards. After the Volkswagen victory, Garner says that interest has expanded dramatically.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">“it came real quick by hundreds and hundreds of people,” says Garner of the union, finally above 70%. “It was just like, immediate. People started jumping on board. And so with momentum (it) keeps on going. It’s just blossomed into this, probably over a 70% majority now. So we should end up about where Volkswagen did,” where the UAW won with 70% of the vote.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">Garner says that the severe labor shortage has helped union efforts. Using Biden stimulus programs from the Inflation Recovery Act, Mercedes has used the federal government to pay for electricity. In the process, they had trouble finding workers.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">With the plant expanding and management trying to get any “body they can get in the door,” says Garner, power dynamics have changed dramatically in the shop.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">As the plant expanded, the automaker struggled to keep people employed, with wages starting at $21 an hour, and hired more prominent young workers. The younger workers at the plant seem much more receptive than Garner has seen in any of his 25 years of organizing.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">Garner says that 65% of the workforce is under 30.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">“When the labor shortage kicked in around COVID, a lot of older people left. So, the only people in the labor pool were the younger generation under 30. And so that’s what we’ve had to bring in. It’ll take years to balance out since we’ve got 65% under 30.”</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">With many people needing help with childcare costs, it’s difficult to get together union members for multiple weekly in-person meetings. However, the union relies heavily on Zoom, which became famous for organizers during the pandemic.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">“This is a new age, we’re in the digital age, it’s somewhat of a new way of organizing from older people to younger people”. says Garner. “I think we saw it in Amazon in New York, they used a lot of internet and phones, instead of a traditional house calling, having big committee meetings, you know, three or four days a week.”</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">Please listen to the lessons of how union activists combine new and old methods to organize across generations and races in the digital age.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://paydayreport.com/600-needed-to-cover-uaw-election-at-mercedes-in-alabama/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://paydayreport.com/600-needed-to-cover-uaw-election-at-mercedes-in-alabama/&source=gmail&ust=1715997936928000&usg=AOvVaw0yWRsGPwtFDj17zKzkrCz_"> Donate to Help Us Provide #PaydayPodcasts Update from Alabama</a></p> | |
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| <title>University of Alabama Got YouTube to Take Down Pro-UAW Ad – Hyundai Fires Union Organizer – 147 Dead in Floods in Southern Brazil</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/university-of-alabama-got-youtube-to-take-down-pro-uaw-ad-hyundai-fires-union-organizer-147-dead-in-floods-in-southern-brazil/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 23:10:56 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Greetings from the Burgh, where we are closely monitoring the UAW elections in Mercedes, Alabama, and the contract talks at IATSE.  The University of Alabama...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where we are closely monitoring the UAW elections in Mercedes, Alabama, and the contract talks at IATSE. </p> | |
| <p><strong>The University of Alabama Got YouTube to Take Down Pro-UAW Ad</strong></p> | |
| <p>Yesterday, Payday reported that seven-time College National Football Championship winner Nick Saban, who coached Alabama for 16 years, has asked UAW ally More Perfect Union to take down an ad. The ad features Saban praising the UAW while advocating for college football players’ right to unions. </p> | |
| <p>“It never scares me that people are organized. General Motors and the automotive industry has had unions for a long time, and they’ve survived, fairly well I think,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/nick-saban-says-union-uses-his-words-out-of-context-asks-uaw-to-pull-mercedes-vote-ads.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">Saban says in a pro-union ad run by the pro-union group More Perfect Union</a>. “There’s been a lot of businesses that have been successful and worked with unions for many, many years. So I’m not anti-union. Unionize it, make it like the NFL”. </p> | |
| <p>Now, Payday Report has learned that the University of Alabama has gotten YouTube to take down More Perfect Union’s ad, which features Saban’s endorsement of unions. The University of Alabama has claimed copyright infringement because More Perfect Union displayed the university logo in the background of the video. </p> | |
| <p>More Perfect Union founder Faiz Shakir is baffled at why Saban would want the ads taken off the air.</p> | |
| <p>“I don’t know why Saban made this line of attack about how we needed his permission. Since when do you need permission after someone goes to a press conference and talks out loud about their views?” said Shakir in an email to Payday Report. </p> | |
| <p>It’s unclear why Saban was upset by the video.<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/600-needed-to-cover-uaw-election-at-mercedes-in-alabama/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> </a></p> | |
| <p>However, <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/600-needed-to-cover-uaw-election-at-mercedes-in-alabama/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Saban does own 9 Mercedes dealerships and has been hired by plant management to give pep talks</a> in front of plant workers in Alabama. </p> | |
| <p>In addition to getting YouTube to take down the pro-UAW featuring Nick Saban, the University of Alabama has also sent a cease-and-desist letter to UAW asking them to stop using the red “A” of the University of Alabama shirts in UAW shirts they are handing out in Tuscaloosa. </p> | |
| <p>The shirts have proven quite popular among workers. The UAW told Payday Report that they have no intention of stopping using the t-shirts anytime soon. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Donate to Help Us Cover the UAW Election at Mercedes in Alabama This Week </strong></p> | |
| <p>Payday has already conducted two long podcasts with a UAW leader at Mercedes in Alabama. We have more work underway this week and need your help to cover this crucial union election. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to Help Us Cover the UAW Election at Mercedes in Alabama.</a> Please, if you can, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">sign up as one of our 775 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>As Hyundai Fires Workers, Union Members Rally & Fight Back</strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier this spring, UAW went public with an attempt to unionize at Hyundai in Montgomery, Alabama. So far, the effort has yet to achieve a majority signup at the plant. </p> | |
| <p>Part of the reason is that Hyundai has fought back in much dirtier ways than either Mercedes or Volkswagen, two heavily unionized German companies whose anti-union tactics have been relatively lighter. </p> | |
| <p>This week,<a target="_blank" href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/unfair-labor-practice-allegations-against-mercedes-hyundai-investigated-ahead-of-union-vote.html" rel="noreferrer noopener"> the UAW filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against Hyundai, alleging that the company has illegally fired a worker for union organizing. </a></p> | |
| <p>This week, Reverend Barber visited the workers and held a rally in a church. At the rally, workers described some of Hyundai’s heavy-handed anti-union tactics. </p> | |
| <p>“One thing they will do to make it difficult is tell people the plant is going to leave,” <a target="_blank" href="https://alabamareflector.com/2024/05/14/at-montgomery-rally-hyundai-workers-describe-difficult-working-conditions/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Stozer told the Alabama Reflector.</a> “They put all kinds of anti-union stuff on the television, and what the union cannot guarantee, and put all the thoughts into their mind so that they are scared.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://alabamareflector.com/2024/05/14/at-montgomery-rally-hyundai-workers-describe-difficult-working-conditions/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out the Alabama Reflector. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>What Caused 147 People to Die in Floods in Southern Brazil </strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, in the Southern Brazil province of Rio Grande do Sul, a Bolsonaro stronghold, at least 147 people were killed in severe flooding as more than 200,000 people were forced out of their homes. </p> | |
| <p>Over at Brasilwire, longtime Brazil-based correspondent Brian Mier has a look at why so many died: </p> | |
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| <p>On May 5th, the Guaíba River reached a record level of 5.33 meters, the highest in history. Parenthetically, the causes for this, beyond the volume of torrential rains during the period, are associated with agricultural exploitation, especially focused on commodity production, which throughout history has severely damaged nature and altered the conditions of the Guaíba’s tributaries, among numerous other human, social, sanitary, and environmental damages.</p> | |
| <p>Even so, with the Guaíba reaching its highest level ever, the city should have still been well protected by the flood protection system, which was built to withstand water levels up to 6 meters high.</p> | |
| <p>The magnitude of the devastation was not only a consequence of the severity of this unprecedented climatic phenomenon but also of the failure of the City Hall in managing the system implemented over 50 years ago.</p> | |
| <p>The city’s lack of protection is the work of the power consortium that has taken turns leading City Hall for 20 years, transforming Porto Alegre into a laboratory for ultra-liberal experiments. The city’s territory has been turned into a free-for-all for unscrupulous, segregating, and ecocidal economic exploitation by real estate capital in partnership with finance and the hegemonic media.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.brasilwire.com/local-governments-responsibility-for-porto-alegre-flood-catastrophe/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Brasil Wire. </a></p> | |
| <p>Links & News Elsewhere </p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/alabama-is-not-michigan-ivey-signs-union-bill-as-mercedes-workers-vote-on-joining-uaw.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ivey signs union bill as Mercedes workers vote on joining UAW</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/mercedes-enlists-pastor-its-union-busting-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mercedes enlists a pastor in its anti-union campaign</a> </li> | |
| <li> <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-strike-sweden-heats-nations-120242528.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tesla strike in Sweden heats up as largest union joins fray</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/13/tech/uber-lyft-massachusetts-trial/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massachusetts takes Uber and Lyft to trial over status of gig workers</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.christiancentury.org/news/union-theological-seminary-votes-divest-companies-profiting-gaza-war" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Union Theological Seminary votes to divest from companies profiting from Gaza war</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/indeed-layoffs-ceo-chris-hyams-memo-2024-5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Careers site Indeed to lay off 1,000 workers</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.thestand.org/2024/05/uw-academic-employees-on-strike/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">UW Academic Student Employees on strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2024/05/13/could-belgiums-historic-labour-law-for-sex-workers-usher-a-changed-approach-across-europe" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Could Belgium’s historic labour law for sex workers usher change across Europe?</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2024/05/vatican-museums-under-fire-from-workers-local-residents" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finally, Vatican Museum employees are suing the Holy See over unsafe and unfair working conditions. </a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>All right, folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, ideas, comments, and complaints to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover the historic UAW election at Mercedes in Alabama.</a> Please, if you can, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">sign up as one of our 776 recurring donors today. </a>Thanks again for all the support. </p> | |
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| <title>Death of IATSE Crew Member as Talks Near Thurs Deadline – IATSE Members Upset over Union Transparency – Nick Saban Askes UAW Ally to Take Down Ad</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/death-of-iatse-crew-member-as-talks-near-thurs-deadline-iatse-members-upset-over-union-transparency-nick-saban-ask-uaw-to-take-down-ad/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 05:45:02 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from Pittsburgh, where we are closely monitoring today with both the Alabama Mercedes Union drive, a firing during Hyundai union drive, and the escalating fight at IATSE. </p> | |
| <p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover both national fights. </a></strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>Death of IATSE Crew Member as Talks Near Thursday Deadline</strong></p> | |
| <p>Representing approximately 60,000 film and television crew leaders, union leaders appear, by most accounts, to be making steady progress with the studio association AMPTP. IATSE leaders have indicated a deadline of Thursday to settle on basic agreement terms. </p> | |
| <p>There is a lot of anxiety over whether more than 50,000 film and television workers, members of IATSE, will go on strike. In 2021, union members prepared to strike, only to settle for a contract <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/iatse-members-narrowly-pass-contract-by-0-6-margin-s-c-bus-drivers-strike-akron-bus-drivers-strike-blocked/" rel="noreferrer noopener">that was narrowly passed by a margin of 50.3%-to-49.6%.</a></p> | |
| <p>IATSE rank-and-file workers have been upset with the lack of transparency from their union. From Deadline: </p> | |
| <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> | |
| <p>On Friday, IATSE said in a memo that the week’s proposals included AI, wages and working conditions, subcontracting, the Videotape Agreement and Side Letters — but it failed to give details on any of those potential deal points.</p> | |
| <p>A union source tells Deadline that “AI discussions have been productive, but there’s still work to be done.”</p> | |
| <p>While all indications seem positive, rank-and-file members appear to be disgruntled with a lack of information surrounding the negotiations. The petition argues “most IATSE members still aren’t being given detailed information about their local’s contract proposals and the AMPTP’s counter-proposals.”</p> | |
| <p>Concerns about the state of this year’s negotiations have been on the minds of members as well as IATSE leadership, sources have confirmed. Specifically, union officials desperately want to avoid the close vote and divisions that scarred the last contract ratification.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2024/05/iatse-general-negotiations-members-petition-transparency-1235914703/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Deadline. </a></p> | |
| <p>The large and popular <a target="_blank" href="https://www.iatsecrew.com/negotiations-transparency" rel="noreferrer noopener">Caucus of Rank-and-File Entertainment Workers (CREW) has a full list of updates on its website.</a> </p> | |
| <p><strong>IATSE Crew Member Dies Falling Asleep At Wheel After Back-to-Back 14-hour Days </strong></p> | |
| <p>Bargaining could also be affected by the recent death of a 66-year-old IATSE union member, Rico Priem, on Saturday morning. Priem was working as a day player on the ABC series “9-1-1,” and had worked two 14-hour days in a row, <a target="_blank" href="https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/911-crew-member-rico-priem-killed-crash-1236001521/" rel="noreferrer noopener">a union official told Variety</a>, when he died in a car accident. </p> | |
| <p>Priem’s death mirrors the 1997 death of Brent Hershman, the second assistant cameraman on the film Pleasantville, <a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2022/03/brent-hershmans-death-25-years-ago-this-week-sparked-demands-for-shorter-workdays-in-hollywood-1234973140/" rel="noreferrer noopener">who died after falling asleep at the wheel after a 19-hour day, which had been preceded by four 15-hour days</a>. The impact of Hershman’s death led two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Welxer to direct the 2006 documentary Who Needs Sleep, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7NUb5Wx5Pc" rel="noreferrer noopener">which is available to watch on YouTube</a>.</p> | |
| <p>Priem’s death follows the February death of J.C. “Spike” Osorio, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-02-09/wonder-man-crew-member-death-radford-studios-family-statement-iatse" rel="noreferrer noopener">a lighting worker who fell from the rafters on the Marvel’s Wonder Man</a> set.</p> | |
| <p>Priem died on what’s infamously referred to as “Fraturday” when TV producers make union members work long into the night to wrap shooting. The death has angered many union members, demanding that IATSE deliver on expanding protections against unsafe overtime. </p> | |
| <p>“We are fully committed to the safety and the well-being of all our members and express our heartfelt condolences to the member’s family,”<a target="_blank" href="https://iatse.net/iatse-statement-regarding-fatal-traffic-accident-involving-a-local-80-member/?" rel="noreferrer noopener"> IATSE said in a statement</a>. “Workers have a reasonable expectation that they can get to work and come home safely. No one should be put in unsafe circumstances while trying to earn a living”.</p> | |
| <p><strong>Donate to Help to Cover IATSE Contract Talks as Deadline Near & Alabama Mercedes UAW</strong></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/iatse-struggles-to-sell-proposed-deal-to-membership/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Since the near IATSE strike in 2021</a>, Payday has thoroughly covered the rank-and-file rebellion within the major Hollywood unions. (<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/iatse-struggles-to-sell-proposed-deal-to-membership/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read our most recent in-depth analysis on how over 8,000 entertainment workers joined unions during the 206 days of strikes in Hollywood last year)</a></p> | |
| <p>While covering the Alabama Mercedes vote this week, we will also closely monitor the IATSE contract in the newsletter.</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us pay for overtime covering both the IATSE contract struggle and the Mercedes UAW election</a>.</p> | |
| <p><strong>Nick Sabian Walks Back “Pro-UAW” Comments </strong></p> | |
| <p>Seven-time College National Football Championship winner Nick Saban, who coached Alabama for 16 years, has asked the UAW to take down an ad that features Saban praising the UAW while advocating for college football players’ right to unions. </p> | |
| <p>“It never scares me that people are organized. General Motors and the automotive industry has had unions for a long time, and they’ve survived, fairly well I think,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/nick-saban-says-union-uses-his-words-out-of-context-asks-uaw-to-pull-mercedes-vote-ads.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">Saban says in a pro-union ad run by the pro-union group More Perfect Union</a>. “There’s been a lot of businesses that have been successful and worked with unions for many, many years. So I’m not anti-union. Unionize it, make it like the NFL.”</p> | |
| <p>Saban has denounced the group by asking them to take down the ad. </p> | |
| <p>“I do not personally endorse the UAW or its campaign and have asked the UAW to remove any advertisements featuring me from circulation. I encourage all Team Members to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming election,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/nick-saban-says-union-uses-his-words-out-of-context-asks-uaw-to-pull-mercedes-vote-ads.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">the former Alabama football coach’s statement read.</a></p> | |
| <p>More Perfect Union Founder Faiz Shakir, who played college baseball at Harvard, defended using Saban’s pro-UAW statements in the ad. </p> | |
| <p>“When a lot of college coaches weren’t willing to talk up the value of organizing college athletes, Coach Saban did,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/nick-saban-says-union-uses-his-words-out-of-context-asks-uaw-to-pull-mercedes-vote-ads.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shakir told AL.com.</a> “I understand that, in the closing moments of a union drive at the Vance plant, he’s probably getting pressure from the Mercedes leadership to speak out, so he felt he needed to say something. We didn’t take anything Coach said out of context; we presented his public statements exactly as he made them; and we’d ask people to watch the ad and judge for themselves.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/nick-saban-says-union-uses-his-words-out-of-context-asks-uaw-to-pull-mercedes-vote-ads.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out AL.com</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Latest Headlines from UAW Mercedes Election </strong></p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/unfair-labor-practice-allegations-against-mercedes-hyundai-investigated-ahead-of-union-vote.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Unfair labor practice allegations against Mercedes, Hyundai filed ahead of union vote</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2024/05/10/anti-uaw-mercedes-benz-alabama-nissan-decertification/73616117007/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Anti-UAW group in Alabama points to Nissan center decertification</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://fortune.com/2024/05/11/mercedes-benz-union-vote-united-auto-workers-alabama/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">50-year-old Mercedes worker in Alabama on voting to unionize: ‘Not falling for the lies anymore’</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p><strong>Cannes Film Festival Bosses Working to Prevent Strike</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, for the first time in decades, the Cannes Film Festival could be disrupted by a strike of its workers as top French unions have packed their cause. A high-profile pre-rally party on Sunday for festival workers quickly turned into a rally for the festival workers group Sous les écrans. </p> | |
| <p>Cannes Festival management is working to prevent a strike. From Hollywood Reporter:</p> | |
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| <p>The group, whose name translates as Broke Behind the Screens, has long been sounding the alarm about the precarious nature of film festival work, which typically involves short-term freelance contracts. Many intermediate festival workers are not covered by France’s unemployment insurance program, meaning in between jobs or projects they do not qualify for unemployment benefits.</p> | |
| <p>New French labor laws, set to go into effect on July 1, will make it even harder for many freelance workers to qualify for benefits. The collective is calling for a change to the contracts from freelance festival workers to allow them to qualify, and for the changes to be backdated 18 months to allow workers to claim for previous festival work.</p> | |
| <p>More than 400 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/international/" rel="noreferrer noopener">international</a> filmmakers and industry executives, including <em>Anatomy of a Fall </em>actor Swann Arlaud and Louis Garrell, who stars in Quentin Dupieux’s Cannes festival opener <em>The Second Act</em>, Palme d’Or winner Jean-Pierre Dardenne, <em>Hellboy</em> director Neil Marshall, and U.S. director and producer John Landis (<em>The Blues Brothers</em>) <a target="_blank" href="https://souslesecransladeche.wordpress.com/tribune-en-soutien-aux-precaires-des-festivals-de-cinema/" rel="noreferrer noopener">have signed an online petition </a>in support of Sous les écrans.</p> | |
| <p>The Cannes festival has said it is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-film-festival-hopes-talks-can-prevent-strike-action-1235892479/" rel="noreferrer noopener">open to a dialog </a>with the group and hopes that “collective action” can prevent a strike. The festival is expected to address the issue on Monday. The 77th Cannes film festival kicks off Tuesday, May 14.</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-workers-applaud-strike-1235896948/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Hollywood Reporter. </a></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><strong>Strikes & News Happening Elsewhere </strong></p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/nearly-a-million-german-construction-workers-to-strike/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">1 million German construction workers to strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10491917/amazon-workers-quebec-union/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Canadians win their first union at Amazon</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://fortune.com/2024/05/12/apple-store-retail-workers-new-jersey-vote-against-union-first-defeat-cwa/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Retail workers at an Apple store in New Jersey vote against unionizing in the first such defeat for the CWA</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2024/05/12/colorado-farmworkers-labor-unions/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colorado agricultural workers can now unionize. So why aren’t they?</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-tesla-drama-brutal-layoffs-2024-5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Inside Tesla’s chaotic month of brutal layoffs</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-13/writers-unemployed-hollywood-strikes-wga" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LA Times has a long look at how most Hollywood writers are still struggling a year after the strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/how-bondage-built-the-church-the-272-rachel-swarns/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finally, Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance.</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>All right, folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments, and complaints to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover both the Mercedes UAW election in Alabama and the union contract fight at IATSE.</a> Please, if you can,<a target="_blank" href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" rel="noreferrer noopener"> sign up as one of our 778 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
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| <title>Mercedes Alabama Union Leaders Initially Wanted to Go Independent – Rank & File UAW Members Escalate Palestine Actions – Biden Backs Locked Out Boeing Workers</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/mercedes-alabama-union-leaders-initially-wanted-to-go-independent-rank-file-uaw-members-escalate-palestine-actions-biden-backs-locked-out-boeing-workers/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 03:55:30 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I am preparing to ship out to Alabama to cover the UAW election at Mercedes. The election runs from next Tuesday to Friday and Payday will be on the ground. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/600-needed-to-cover-uaw-election-at-mercedes-in-alabama/">Donate to Help Us Cover this Historic UAW Election at Mercedes</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Mercedes Alabama Union Leaders Initially Wanted to Go Independent</strong></p> | |
| <p>When Shawn Fain ran to unseat Ray Curry as president of UAW, Fain promised a new era of union democracy in the UAW. The election at Mercedes will certainly be an interesting test of the UAW’s professed commitment to union democracy.</p> | |
| <p>For nearly a decade, a minority union has existed at Mercedes in Tuscaloosa and was chartered as UAW local 112 with leadership elected by union members. </p> | |
| <p>When Mercedes workers began exploring a union election last fall, many of the local minority union leaders began exploring leaving the UAW and chartering as an independent union.</p> | |
| <p>The local UAW workers approached the UAW and informed them of their desire to go as an independent union. The UAW in turn agreed to demands for local autonomy. </p> | |
| <p>With a union campaign laid without much international staff until the last few months, the election at Mercedes could be an interesting test of the UAW’s commitment to union democracy. </p> | |
| <p>For more on the <a href="https://laborpolitics.substack.com/p/how-can-labor-win-at-scale">bottom-up approach of Mercedes workers organizing, check out this interview with Rutgers labor professor and writer Eric Blanc </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Only $75 Needed to Reach Goal to Cover Mercedes</strong></p> | |
| <p>Good news folks, only $75 is needed to meet our goal to cover the UAW election at Mercedes in Alabama.</p> | |
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| <p><strong>UAW Workers Established “Union Village” Encampment at UCLA </strong></p> | |
| <p>On Tuesday, Payday broke the story of how <a href="https://paydayreport.com/uaw-president-shawn-fain-vetoes-disinvestment-from-israel-wisc-u-faculty-strike-cannes-film-festival-workers-to-strike/">UAW President Shawn Fain vetoed attempts within the UAW to divest from Israel</a>. UAW represents over 100,000 academic workers and many, who have been involved in campus occupations, were upset by Fain’s veto of the union’s divestment from Israel. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/uaw-president-shawn-fain-vetoes-disinvestment-from-israel-wisc-u-faculty-strike-cannes-film-festival-workers-to-strike/">(See our story here)</a></p> | |
| <p>While the UAW along with other unions endorsed a ceasefire in December, the union has been loath to take more aggressive action to protest Israel’s attack on Gaza. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://twitter.com/uawlabor4pal/status/1750284061484999015">When several UAW members attempted to protest the UAW’s endorsement of Biden at its convention in January, they were literally dragged from the convention by UAW staff </a>as union members began chanting “U-S-A. U-S-A” to drown out their anti-war chants. <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/01/24/uaw-biden-endorsement-gaza/">(Check out Prem Thakker’s story at the Intercept from January)</a></p> | |
| <p>However, rank-and-file UAW members on college campuses continue to take bold action to stop genocide in Gaza. </p> | |
| <p>On UC Berkeley’s campus, UAW members have established a “Union Village.” More from the <em>Daily Bruin</em>: </p> | |
| <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> | |
| <p>“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Academic Student Employee, or ASE, Statewide Chair Tanzil Chowdhury. “People understand the gravity of the moment.”</p> | |
| <p>UAW 4811 plans to hold a strike authorization vote May 13 in response to the police force against Gaza solidarity encampments at UCLA and UCSD, Chowdhury added.</p> | |
| <p>While union members have been at the encampment for the last few weeks in an individual capacity, UAW 4811 did not have an explicit presence until Tuesday, according to UC Berkeley ASE Unit Chair Iris Rosenblum-Sellers.</p> | |
| <p>UC Berkeley’s is the first “Union Village” to be established at any UC encampment, Rosenblum-Sellers added. As of Tuesday afternoon, there were around half a dozen tents in the “Union Village,” but both Chowdhury and Rosenblum-Sellers said union members anticipate filling the remaining space soon.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/student-life/uaw-workers-establish-union-village-as-hundreds-rally-for-rafah-on-sproul/article_e23177f6-0cf8-11ef-9ede-d7857caa73f1.html">For more, check out the Daily Cal</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Biden Voices Support for Locked Out Firefighters</strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier this week, Boeing locked out underpaid firefighters fighting for a higher wage at its base in Everett, Washington. </p> | |
| <p>Earlier today, President Biden issued his support for the locked out firefighters and denounced Boeing. </p> | |
| <p>“Collective bargaining is a right that helps employers and employees,” <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1788608801878196563">tweeted President Joe Biden.</a> “I’m concerned by reports that Boeing locked out IAFF I-66 members. I encourage folks to return to the table to secure a deal that benefits Boeing and gets these firefighters the pay and benefits they deserve.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/its-hot-mess-right-now-is-boeing-firefighter-lockout-putting-everett-employees-risk/BAOKFGVNGZAKXJML2K6HOFQ54Y/">For more on the lockout at Boeing, check out KIRO. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>French Union Powerhouse Backs Cannes Film Festival Strike </strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, earlier this week, a group of rank-and-file precarious film festival workers in Cannes announced that they would strike. Now, the French powerhouse union federation CGT has backed the strike. </p> | |
| <p>“We cinema, audiovisual and animation technicians are united with these workers who are constrained to work in conditions which are financially and materially more and more difficult, so that participating films can be shown in the best possible conditions,” <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/05/cannes-strike-french-union-cgt-supports-festival-workers-1235909146/">said the CGT in a statement.</a> “The making of a film only has a sense if it can be shown, and festivals play a big part in the life and promotion of cinematic works particularly in France.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://deadline.com/2024/05/cannes-strike-french-union-cgt-supports-festival-workers-1235909146/">For more, check out coverage in <em>Deadline.</em></a></p> | |
| <p>News & Strikes Happening Elsewhere </p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://laborpolitics.substack.com/p/how-can-labor-win-at-scale">How Zoom calls and worker-to-worker organizing have helped the UAW rapidly scale its organizing efforts in the South.</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/06/return-office-mandates-lawsuits-employees/">An in depth look at lawsuits filed against “return-to-office” policies</a>.</li> | |
| <li><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/argentina-labor-unions-1-day-strike-president-milei-110072766">Argentina labor unions’ 1-day strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life</a>.</li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/tempe-hotel-workers-striking-asu-graduation-18933071">Why Tempe hotel workers are striking amid ASU’s graduation week</a>.</li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/05/08/1197956379/in-chicano-frankenstein-the-undead-are-the-new-underpaid-labor-force">In the new novel “Chicano Frankenstein”, the undead are the new underpaid workforce</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.nps.gov/blrv/learn/historyculture/200-labor-events.htm">On the 200th anniversary of the first major strike in the United States, the National Park Service has compiled an easy-to-browse history of over 200 moments in US labor history.<br></a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending comments, ideas, complaints, and suggestions to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
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| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk </p> | |
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| <p>Next week, workers at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama will vote on unionizing. It’s a historic UAW election and a win there could open the door to more union organizing throughout the South. </p> | |
| <p><em>(<a href="https://paydayreport.com/listen-mercedes-union-leader-in-alabama-predicts-landslide-victory/">Read our preview of the UAW election at Mercedes</a> & <a href="https://paydayreport.com/listen-mercedes-union-leader-in-alabama-predicts-landslide-victory/">Listen to Our Podcast with a Mercedes Union Leader</a> in Alabama)</em></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-ten-year-battle-a-younger-generation-leads-the-way-at-volkswagen/">Our coverage in Chattanooga went viral with a video of a formerly anti-union worker who turned pro-union</a>, gaining a combined <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeElk/status/1781489163214127570/video/1">500,000 views on Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCedYMbxhF4&t=33s">YouTube</a>. We nearly doubled our YouTube following with this video, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCedYMbxhF4&t=33s">which received more than 4,200 likes. </a></p> | |
| <p>We received wide praise for our Chattanooga coverage, which will really help us appeal for grants to foundations. We only could have gotten that interview if we were in the field. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/600-needed-to-cover-uaw-election-at-mercedes-in-alabama/">Donate to help us cover this crucial UAW election.</a></p> | |
| <p>However, we need to worry about money right now to cover the UAW election at Mercedes in Alabama next week because covering the Chattanooga union election was so expensive. </p> | |
| <p>Initially, we thought that we would need $4,000 combined to cover both the Volkswagen and Mercedes UAW elections. We raised $4,235 from our readers. </p> | |
| <p>However, it cost us approximately $3,578 to cover Chattanooga and now we are debating traveling down to Vance, Alabama to cover the UAW election at Mercedes next week. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Let me give you a breakdown of our costs in Chattanooga: </strong></p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li>$840 for a week’s stay in a La Quinta hotel </li> | |
| <li>$1,500 to hire local videographers (a cost we’re eliminating by 75% as I am going to film myself and simply hire an editor)</li> | |
| <li>$275 on text and audio editors</li> | |
| <li>$383 on airfare</li> | |
| <li>$70 on baggage fees </li> | |
| <li>$160 on taxis and Ubers (I didn’t rent a car, to save money)</li> | |
| <li>$350 on eating out for a week while reporting</li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>$3,578 was spent on covering the UAW victory in Chattanooga out of $4,235 raised for two union elections from our readers, leaving only $657 to cover Alabama.</p> | |
| <p>The remaining money went to buy a $242 plane ticket to Alabama and to cover part of my $720 monthly healthcare costs. </p> | |
| <p>I paid myself no salary for my Chattanooga work. (Fortunately, our monthly recurring donors allowed me to still pay my $1,200-a-month rent in Pittsburgh.) Furthermore, none of this budget includes salary for months of tracking the latest updates on the UAW drive at Volkswagen.</p> | |
| <p><strong>How We Plan to Save Money in Alabama</strong></p> | |
| <p>Now, we are hoping to save money in Alabama. I am going to do all my filming myself to cut out paying videographers and have enough money to pay our editor. </p> | |
| <p>However, I’m very, very nervous about having enough money for hotel, gas, and travel costs in Alabama. I figure I will easily need another $600 for a three night’s stay, transportation, and food. </p> | |
| <p>Our coverage of Chattanooga was a huge success and was at the center of both national and international discourse about the historic UAW election. </p> | |
| <p>However, I am debating shortening the trip to Alabama because we will likely need another $600 easily to cover full costs. </p> | |
| <p>Please donate to help us cover this expected $600 that we will need to cover the historic UAW election in Alabama. </p> | |
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| <title>UAW Prez Shawn Fain Vetoes Disvestment from Israel – Wisc. U Faculty Strike – Cannes Film Festival Workers to Strike</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/uaw-president-shawn-fain-vetoes-disinvestment-from-israel-wisc-u-faculty-strike-cannes-film-festival-workers-to-strike/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 02:32:37 +0000</pubDate> | |
| <category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday is preparing to travel to Alabama next week. Donate to Help Us Cover Historic UAW Election at Mercedes...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday is preparing to travel to Alabama next week. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">Donate to Help Us Cover Historic UAW Election at Mercedes in Alabama. </a> Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">sign up as one of our 776 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>UAW President Shawn Fain Vetoes Disinvestment from Israel </strong></p> | |
| <p>The UAW has billions of dollars of pension funds, some of which are invested in Israel. With nearly ⅓ of its union members representing University employees, the UAW is facing pressure from its members to disinvest from Israel. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ueunion.org/political-action/2015/BDS" rel="noreferrer noopener">The United Electrical Workers (UE) has already embraced the disinvestment strategy from Israel</a>, but the UAW seems hesitant to adopt the approach. </p> | |
| <p>Last week, UAW President Shawn Fain and a majority of executive board members voted against disinvesting from Israel. </p> | |
| <p>It’s not the first time that there has been tension within the UAW over the war in Gaza. Last year, the UAW called for a ceasefire in Gaza but still endorsed President Biden, leading to protests from UAW members during a Biden speech to the union’s membership. <a target="_blank" href="https://theintercept.com/2024/01/24/uaw-biden-endorsement-gaza/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Some UAW members were even dragged out of Biden’s speech at a UAW conference for protesting his policies in Palestine.)</a> </p> | |
| <p>Things could get ugly once again within the UAW as Fain resists calls to divest from Israel. The group UAW Labor for Palestine and its members criticized the UAW’s leadership. </p> | |
| <p>“Again<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ShawnFainUAW" rel="noreferrer noopener"> @ShawnFainUAW</a> is proving that he is not nearly as committed to reform as he campaigned on. Pathetic,” <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/AJMooreHealth/status/1786546906250018870" rel="noreferrer noopener">tweeted UAW member Adam J. Moore. </a>“Business unions gonna business union.”</p> | |
| <p><strong>University of Wisconsin Faculty Walkout in Support of Protesters </strong></p> | |
| <p>At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, faculty have walked out to denounce a crackdown on a campus encampment calling for disinvestment from Palestine. </p> | |
| <p>“Directing campus, city, county and state police to take down the encampment by force was an unnecessary, disproportionate, escalatory and harmful action,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wpr.org/news/uw-madison-faculty-staff-walkout-support-pro-palestinian-protesters" rel="noreferrer noopener">geography professor Keith Woodard told Wisconsin Public Radio.</a> “This shameful action was a failure of leadership who refused to engage in dialogue with student protesters.” </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.wpr.org/news/uw-madison-faculty-staff-walkout-support-pro-palestinian-protesters" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Wisconsin Public Radio. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Boeing Locks Out Firefighters </strong></p> | |
| <p>Boeing is facing complaints that it does not take safety seriously, so it has locked out its unionized firefighters in Everett, Washington. </p> | |
| <p>“Our guys are coming in at $25 per hour and are a couple thousand dollars away from being eligible for food stamps, right now. So, they’re having to work two jobs or seek employment elsewhere,” <a target="_blank" href="https://mynorthwest.com/3959453/local-boeing-firefighters-hit-the-picket-line-for-livable-wages/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Union Vice President John Riggsby told KIRO. </a></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://mynorthwest.com/3959453/local-boeing-firefighters-hit-the-picket-line-for-livable-wages/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out KIRO. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Cannes Film Festival Workers to Strike</strong></p> | |
| <p>Next week, the Cannes Film Festival, but workers there are threatening to strike. From Hollywood Reporter: </p> | |
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| <p>The Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the Screens) collective made the call in a public statement Monday.</p> | |
| <p>The group has long been sounding the alarm about the precarious nature of film festival work, which typically involves short-term freelance contracts. But unlike other so-called intermediate workers in the entertainment industry, many festival workers are not covered by France’s unemployment insurance program, meaning they do not qualify for unemployment benefits in between jobs or projects.</p> | |
| <p>The Sous les écrans noted that the latest set of benefit reforms, set to go through July 1, will further tighten the rules for employees.</p> | |
| <p>“These reforms are throwing festival workers in such precariousness that the majority of us will have to give up our jobs, thus jeopardizing the events we take part in,” the group said.</p> | |
| <p>So far, the group said, the Cannes festival, the French ministry of culture and the French film board, the CNC, have greeted worker concerns “with polite consideration [but] not concrete measures have been offered. That is why the upcoming opening of the Cannes festival is leaving us with a bitter taste.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-festival-workers-calls-for-strike-action-1235890760/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Hollywood Reporter. </a></strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>Strikes & News Happening Elsewhere</strong></p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.wxyz.com/news/uaw-members-at-warren-stellantis-plant-vote-to-authorize-strike-over-facility-conditions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">1,000 Stellantis workers in Warren, Michigan have voted to strike over safety concerns</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-06/mercedes-union-vote-latest-us-raises-alleged-union-busting-to-germany" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Biden Admin presses German government on cracking down on union busting by Mercedes in Alabama</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-05-union-advocate-salts-quietly-jobs.html#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Union advocate’ salts’ quietly take jobs inside NC Amazon warehouse</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.yourtango.com/news/bank-america-employees-striking-after-coworker-died-overwork" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bank of America employees are talking about striking after a co-worker died from overwork</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/italy-rai-journalists-strike-giorgia-meloni-government" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Italian state RAI journalist strike over “suffocating control” by Meloni’s government </a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://deadline.com/2024/05/writers-guild-canada-cmpa-reach-production-agreement-1235906997/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Strike Averted! Writers Guild Of Canada & Canadian Media Producers Association Reach Agreement</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n09/john-lahr/where-s-the-barbed-wire" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">London Review of Books has a review of a new August Wilson biography </a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/05/pope-francis-transgender-sex-workers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finally, a look at how Pope Francis has opened the Vatican to transgender sex workers. </a></strong></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover the UAW election at Mercedes in Alabama</a>. Please, if you can, <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener">sign up as one of nour 776 recurring donors today. </a>Thanks again for all of your support. </p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk </p> | |
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| <title>Listen: Mercedes Union Leader in Alabama Predicts Landslide Victory </title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/listen-mercedes-union-leader-in-alabama-predicts-landslide-victory/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 17:39:12 +0000</pubDate> | |
| <category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Since the late 1990s, UAW Local 149 Vice President Kirk Garner has been involved in efforts to unionize at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. Now, after...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Since the late 1990s, UAW Local 149 Vice President Kirk Garner has been involved in efforts to unionize at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. Now, after the 73% victory at Volkswagen in April, the union says that it is cruising to victory. </p> | |
| <p>“It feels really good. And it’s finally coming to fruition. And we’re excited, everybody’s excited, ready to vote,” says Garner, who predicts that approximately 70% of his co-workers at Mercedes support the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>Unlike previous efforts to unionize at Mercedes, which management had always been able to blunt, it does not appear that management has been able to do very much to stop the UAW in Vance, Alabama. </p> | |
| <p>“We’re having to watch little videos every day. Now management is starting to go around the plant and pat everybody on the back. I don’t think it’s doing any good,” says Kirk. “There really hadn’t really been much of an attack campaign from fellow employees. They really can’t get anything going. We feel really good.” </p> | |
| <p>Last week, Mercedes even attempted to respond to the union’s momentum by firing its plant manager to claim to workers that they were going to change things. Garner says it still had no effect.<br></p> | |
| <p>In past campaigns, Mercedes hinted that the plant might close if workers unionize, but that message isn’t effective either this time. </p> | |
| <p>“I don’t think people fear closing because they just invested $1.2 billion in the plant, in the battery plant and the EVs, and so there’s no fear they’re gonna move,” says Garner. </p> | |
| <p>Instead, Garner says that workers are motivated by the success of the UAW in winning major gains during the “Stand Up” strike. </p> | |
| <p>“When the UAW got some great contracts out of the (Big) Three, people realized that they were leaving a lot on the table,” says Garner. “And so that’s pushed this campaign for the most part, what we were leaving on the table.” </p> | |
| <p>Mercedes union organizers say that the news of the massive victory is helping building their support as they head for election. </p> | |
| <p>“Everybody’s excited,” says Garner. “We’re making calls this week to some of the undecided people, and we’re getting good responses from them. Volkswagen was able to get, you know, some people that hadn’t signed up, to vote for the union.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6B3xvizvaCVpyILnoltanf?si=cc43208ddddc4421"><em>Listen to our full 20-minute interview to understand why workers at Mercedes are likely to vote for the UAW in a landslide.</em></a></p> | |
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| <title>Podcast: Payday Report Mercedes Union Leader in Alabama Predicts Landslide Victory</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-mercedes-union-leader-in-alabama-predicts-landslide-victory/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Payday Report Podcast]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 16:30:02 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Since the late 1990s, UAW Local 149 Vice President Kirk Garner has been involved in efforts to unionize at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. Now, after the 73% victory at Volkswagen in April, the union says that it is cruising to victory. “It feels really...]]></description> | |
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| <p dir="ltr">Since the late 1990s, UAW Local 149 Vice President Kirk Garner has been involved in efforts to unionize at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. Now, after the 73% victory at Volkswagen in April, the union says that it is cruising to victory.</p> | |
| <p dir="ltr">“It feels really good. And it’s finally coming to fruition. And we’re excited, everybody’s excited, ready to vote,” says Garner, who predicts that approximately 70% of his co-workers at Mercedes support the UAW. </p> | |
| <p dir="ltr"> Mercedes union organizers say that the news of the massive victory is helping building their support as they head for election.</p> | |
| <p> “Everybody’s excited,” says Garner. “We’re making calls this week to some of the undecided people, and we’re getting good responses from them. Volkswagen was able to get, you know, some people that hadn’t signed up, to vote for the union.”</p> | |
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| <title>University Employees Strike Wave Begins Amid Campus Crackdown – NCAA May Settle $2.7 Billion w/ Former Athletes – Striking Writers Struggle to Find Work</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/university-employees-strike-wave-begins-amid-campus-crackdown-ncaa-may-settle-2-7-billion-w-former-athletes-striking-writers-struggle-to-find-work/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 22:38:29 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where we have been tracking the growing threat of strikes from campus workers across the United States. University Employees Strike...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where we have been tracking the growing threat of strikes from campus workers across the United States. </p> | |
| <p><strong>University Employees Strike Wave Begins Amid Campus Crackdowns</strong></p> | |
| <p>Across the United States, Palestinian justice protestors are occupying campuses and demanding that their universities divest from Israel. </p> | |
| <p>According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), t<a target="_blank" href="https://acleddata.com/2024/05/02/pro-palestine-us-student-protests-nearly-triple-in-april-acled-brief/" rel="noreferrer noopener">he number of campus protests in favor of Palestine tripled last month. </a>Now, university employee unions across the United States are beginning to strike. </p> | |
| <p>Hundreds of employees at CUNY went on <a href="https://twitter.com/cunyonstrike/status/1785868440877625648" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a May Day strike to protest crackdowns on protests on their campuses. </a> Last week, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/university-of-texas-faculty-strike-alabama-amazon-workers-could-vote-again/">faculty at the University of Texas went on an illegal strike in solidarity with Palestinian justice protestors. </a></p> | |
| <p>At Dartmouth, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/swcdartmouth/status/1785636793787850824" rel="noreferrer noopener">UE members are striking over wages while showing solidarity with Palestinian protestors on campus. </a>Their union has also <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/swcdartmouth/status/1786210626278215723" rel="noreferrer noopener">called for the resignation of Dartmouth’s President over its arrests of over 90 Palestinian protestors</a>.</p> | |
| <p>Graduate employees at USC have filed NLRB unfair labor practice charges against the administration for their crackdown and are also threatening to strike. </p> | |
| <p>Across town at UCLA, graduate employees are voting on whether to strike in protest over a crackdown on student protests on campus. </p> | |
| <p>“Should the university decide to curtail the right to participate in protected, concerted activity; discriminate against union members or political viewpoints; and create or allow threats to members’ health and safety, among others, UAW 4811 members will take any and all actions necessary to enforce our rights,” the UAW 4811 Executive Board said in its statement.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/01/labor-unions-express-support-for-palestine-solidarity-encampment-at-ucla" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out the Daily Bruin. </a></p> | |
| <p>$1,000 Needed to Fully Fund Alabama Mercedes Vote Coverage </p> | |
| <p>It looks like we are going to need at least a $1,000 to fully fund our coverage of the UAW election at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">Donate to help us cover this historic UAW election. </a> Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">sign up as one of our 776 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>NCAA May Have to Pay $2.7 Billion to Former Student Athletes </strong></p> | |
| <p>In order to settle a class-action antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA, a $2.7 billion settlement is being discussed. From ESPN: </p> | |
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| <p>Sources told ESPN this week that parties have proposed the NCAA’s national office — rather than its individual member schools or conferences — would pay for the settlement of past damages over a period of 10 years. The NCAA payments would be paid to former college athletes who say they were illegally prevented from making money by selling the rights to their name, image and likeness.</p> | |
| <p>The settlement would come with a corresponding commitment from conferences and schools to share revenue with athletes moving forward, sources said. The settlement would establish a framework for power conferences to share revenue with their athletes in the future. Sources have told ESPN that schools are anticipating a ceiling of nearly $20 million per year for athlete revenue share moving forward. (That figure is derived from a formula that’s expected to be, per sources, 22% of a revenue metric that’s still being discussed, which is set to be based on various revenue buckets. It would be up to the schools to share that much.)</p> | |
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| <p><strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40071715/ncaa-pay-more-27b-settle-antitrust-suits-sources-say" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out ESPN. </a></strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>A Year Late, Striking Writers Guild Struggle to Find Work </strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, a year after the Writers’ Guild strike, most former strikers say they struggle to find work. From Variety: </p> | |
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| <p>“There’s less things being made,'” said Justin Halpern, a WGA board member and co-showrunner of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary.” “If you have been able to secure employment as a writer during this time of contraction, you are making a living wage. But the problem is, there’s not a lot being made right now.”</p> | |
| <p>The contraction was already underway before the WGA went on strike, followed by SAG-AFTRA two months later. Production has resumed but remains below pre-strike levels, according to data <a target="_blank" href="https://filmla.com/post-strike-production-rebound-slow-to-materialize-in-early-2024/" rel="noreferrer noopener">released</a> last month by FilmLA.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/wga-strike-work-shortage-crisis-writers-1235986452/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Variety. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Strikes & News Happening Elsewhere</strong></p> | |
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| <li><strong><a href="https://www.epi.org/blog/the-inspiring-wave-of-student-worker-organizing-that-the-trump-administration-tried-to-stop/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nearly 45,000 student workers at private colleges and universities have formed unions since 2022</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/chrysler/2024/04/30/uaw-plans-strike-authorization-vote-at-stellantis-warren-plant-over-safety/73515177007/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">UAW warns of strike authorization vote at Stellantis Warren plant over safety concerns</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/metro-atlanta-uber-lyft-drivers-planning-strike-demanding-fair-pay-protections/PJVJM5S6KVAG7LXD5QFY4QX77Y/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Metro Atlanta Uber and Lyft drivers plan strike, demand fair pay and protections</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article288165440.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Workers at KC domestic violence shelter seek help from politicians in push to form union</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/new-legislation-will-allow-maryland-library-workers-to-form-unions/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New legislation will allow Maryland library workers to form unions</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><strong><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-ready-lock-out-a220-workers-if-offer-rejected-2024-05-01/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Airbus ready to lock out Canadian workers if offer rejected</a></strong></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://deadline.com/2024/05/les-miserables-cannes-film-festival-workers-planning-protests-potential-strike-action-over-pay-1235899443/">Finally, workers at the Cannes Film Festival are threatening to go on strike this month</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. We will have more next week. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments, and complaints <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to Help Us Cover the UAW Election at Mercedes in Alabama.</a> Please, if you can, s<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener">ign up as one of our 776 recurring donors today. </a>Thanks again for all the support.</p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk </p> | |
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| <title>Americans for Prosperity Staffer Attacks Payday for Brazil Coverage</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/americans-for-prosperity-attacks-payday-for-brazil-coverage/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 21:48:43 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[On this May Day, celebrating international worker solidarity, I thought of a recent attack by an American for Prosperity political operative against Payday Report for...]]></description> | |
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| <p>On this May Day, celebrating international worker solidarity, I thought of a recent attack by an American for Prosperity political operative against Payday Report for our coverage in Brazil. </p> | |
| <p>Criticizing recent attempts to crack down on disinformation on social media in Brazil, <a href="https://twitter.com/sjkoch1984/status/1778435998977835016">an American for Prosperity staffer based in the wealthy suburb of Aspinwall, tweeted</a>, “Guess this is why<a href="https://twitter.com/MikeElk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> @MikeElk</a> spends so much time there these days! Putting out propaganda after propaganda piece for<a href="https://twitter.com/PaydayReport" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> @PaydayReport</a> and the Lula administration!!! While asking Americans to fund his trip!!!”</p> | |
| <p>Many people wonder why a labor reporter from Pittsburgh would be in Brazil. The answer is simple: we live in an international labor movement, and we are stronger when we learn from each other. </p> | |
| <p>More than that, I owe it to the Brazilian people to use my platform to help teach Americans about inspiring models of organizing in Brazil, such as the Landless Workers Movement, which has helped more than 400,000 families occupy and own their rights to their land since the 1990s</p> | |
| <p>Nearly twenty years ago, in 2006, I received a scholarship to study at PUC-Rio, the first term of Lula’s administration.</p> | |
| <p>At the time, we had Bush as President, whereas Brazil had Lula, an autoworkers union leader. He led a series of dramatic strikes against US automakers in Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s that brought down the dictatorship. I learned a tremendous amount. </p> | |
| <p>The lessons I learned in my year and a half of studying in college in Brazil have stayed with me and helped me during my entire career that followed as an American labor reporter:</p> | |
| <p>I also studied at PUC-Rio with Marielle Franco, a Rio City Councilwoman who was assassinated in 2018 by right-wing paramilitary forces in Brazil.</p> | |
| <p>Thanks to foundation support and reader donations, I’ve been working on a documentary about Marielle for the past year. Nearly all American publications had ignored her story, but our comrades found it encouraging that a small labor publication would stick with the story. </p> | |
| <p>While we were out filming this past March, the Brazilian federal police arrested the former chief of the Rio police and two politically powerful brothers for her assassination.</p> | |
| <p>Our story on the arrests of her killers garnered more than 300,000 views and was the most popular story Payday published in the past year. </p> | |
| <p>Now, Payday is continuing to work on our feature-length documentary about Marielle Franco and the movement that her death inspired. </p> | |
| <p>When Marielle Franco was assassinated, she was the only Black woman on the Rio City Council, and now several Black women are running for office in Brazil at record rates. </p> | |
| <p>Marielle remains a symbol for the left in Brazil and is inspiring people to fight in bold new ways. </p> | |
| <p>Many Brazilian activists have taken inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement. As American activists, we have done very little to study their movements; we, as Brazilians, have yet to do much to study their movements. If we knew the story of Marielle Franco and the movement that her death inspired, it would inspire us even more. </p> | |
| <p>Our movement is stronger when we understand movements from other parts of the world. </p> | |
| <p>We have filmed nearly 30 hours of footage in Brazil and now need to pay people to help us edit the film. We need your help to pay for those costs. </p> | |
| <p>Please, this May Day, give a few dollars for international labor solidarity and help us edit this film. </p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate">Donate to help us edit our documentary, <em>Marielle Vive.</em> </a></p> | |
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| <title>With 70% UAW Support, Mercedes Fires Plant Manager – Volkswagen & UAW Agree to Contract Talks</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/with-70-uaw-support-mercedes-fires-plant-manager-volkswagen-uaw-agree-to-contract-talks/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 02:49:52 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Greetings from the Burgh, where we are closely monitoring the action at Mercedes down in Alabama.  Anne Feeney Memorial Events at Heinz History Center &...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where we are closely monitoring the action at Mercedes down in Alabama. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Anne Feeney Memorial Events at Heinz History Center & Mr Smalls Tomorrow</strong></p> | |
| <p>There will be a series of memorial events tomorrow to honor labor folk singer Anne Feeney tomorrow. </p> | |
| <p>There will be a memorial lunchtime lecture at the Heinz History Center. Then, in the evening, there will be a memorial show at Mr Smalls starting at 6:30. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/anne-feeney-memorial-next-wednesday-may-1st/">More details can be found here. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>With 70% Sign Up, Mercedes Desperately Dismisses Manager</strong></p> | |
| <p>UAW Local 249 Vice President Kirk Garner has confirmed to Payday Report that the UAW has achieved 70% signup at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. </p> | |
| <p>“I think, we are gonna win by similar margins to what the UAW did at Volkswagen in Chattanooga,” said Garner referencing the breakthrough </p> | |
| <p>In a desperate move to stop the UAW’s momentum, Mercedes has dismissed its plant manager. The company has pleaded with workers to give them a second chance and reject the unio0n. </p> | |
| <p>Already, the company has eliminated a two-tier wage system, given workers an 11% pay raise, and now has fired its plant manager. </p> | |
| <p>“If that’s what you get for just *talking* union, imagine what you can win when you *join* the union,’ <a href="https://twitter.com/JonahFurman/status/1785380281618199033">tweeted UAW Communication Director Jonah Furman.</a> “May 13-17, get ready”</p> | |
| <p><strong>Help Pay for Hotels in Alabama</strong></p> | |
| <p>Folks, the UAW election is going to be at Mercedes in two weeks and we need your help to cover it. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">Donate to help us pay for hotel room and food while we are down there.</a> Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">sign up as one of our 776 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>UAW and Volkswagen Agree to Negotiate a Contract</strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier today, Volkswagen and UAW announced in a joint statement that they would begin negotiating a first union contract at their facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee. </p> | |
| <p>“Volkswagen and union workers around the world have a long history of successfully building vehicles together, and we are jointly committed to a strong and successful future at Volkswagen Chattanooga with the UAW,”, Volkswagen & UAW said in a joint statement today. “ Both sides are now focused on collective bargaining and entering negotiations in the spirit of working together to reach a fair agreement and build world-class automobiles together”. </p> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">Donate to help us cover hotel & food costs in Alabama.</a> Please, if you can,<a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/"> sign up as one of our 774 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p>Thanks again for all the support. </p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <title>University of Texas Faculty Strike – Alabama Amazon Workers Could Vote Again</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/university-of-texas-faculty-strike-alabama-amazon-workers-could-vote-again/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 03:03:13 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where I took a couple days off after a wild couple of weeks In the last three weeks, I covered...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from the Burgh, where I took a couple days off after a wild couple of weeks</p> | |
| <p>In the last three weeks, I covered the capture of the killers of Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro, the historic UAW election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, and the re-election of Summer Lee in Pittsburgh.</p> | |
| <p><strong>$340 Short of Closing Budget Hole on UAW Coverage at Volkswagen </strong></p> | |
| <p>We are still $340 short of closing our budget hole to fully cover the costs of our UAW coverage at Volkswagen. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">Donate to Help Us Cover the Costs of UAW Coverage at Volkswagen.</a> Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">sign up as one of our 774 recurring donors tonite. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>University of Texas Faculty Strike in Solidarity with Student </strong></p> | |
| <p>Yesterday, images of the Texas Department of Public Safety beating anti-war protestors at the University of Texas went viral. Now, faculty at the University are striking until the Texas police authorities are removed from campus. </p> | |
| <p>“There can be no business as usual when our campus is occupied by city and state troopers, who are preventing our students from engaging in first amendment rights,” said a group of faculty supporting the strike. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ut-austin-faculty-strike-in-solidarity-with-pro-palestine-student-protesters/"><strong>For more, check out Truthout</strong></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Amazon Alabama Workers May Vote to Unionize Again </strong></p> | |
| <p>The momentum could keep going down south as workers may be gearing up for another vote at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama</p> | |
| <p>In 2021, workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama lost a union election by a margin of 2-to-1. In 2022, the workers voted again, but the vote has never been counted as both the company and the union have challenged more than 300 ballots. </p> | |
| <p>Now two years later, the union may get its second chance at an election. From NPR: </p> | |
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| <p>Now, the NLRB judge will review the 311 ballots that are still uncounted. Both sides have filed other objections to the vote, accusing each other of breaking rules. The judge will consider that too.</p> | |
| <p>Also on the agenda is an <a href="https://www.nlrb.gov/case/10-CA-290944">order by a regional NLRB director</a> issued last year. It alleges that Amazon had violated labor laws, including by interrogating, surveilling and threatening pro-union workers, plus setting “overly broad” restrictions on workers’ access to the warehouse in their off hours.</p> | |
| <p>Witnesses will begin to testify on Monday and continue into July.</p> | |
| <p>What the judge decides could either establish the outcome of the last union election or set that election aside in favor of yet another do-over. Given high turnover at Amazon warehouses, this rerun would be the first time many current workers would have a chance to vote.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1246423390/amazon-warehouse-alabama-union-vote"><strong>For more, check out NPR</strong></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Links </strong></p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://twitter.com/deidrejowen/status/1782800779335565398">Poll: Alabama Strongly Supports Unionizing Mercedes Workers</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://uaw.org/gm-aramark-workers-win-major-gains-raise-the-standard-for-sanitation-workers/">1,000 General Motors Aramark Win 43% Raise</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/italys-state-tv-journalists-strike-133714689.html">Italy’s state TV journalists to strike over Meloni government’s grip</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-guild-of-canada-votes-to-authorize-strike-1235881245/">Writers Guild of Canada overwhelmingly votes to authorize strike over AI, Fair Pay</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/months-after-a-strike-deadline-was-set-why-arent-virgin-hotels-workers-walking-off-the-job-3038976/">Months after a strike deadline was set, why aren’t Virgin Hotels workers walking off the job?</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.ksn.com/news/kansas/ku-faculty-vote-to-unionize/amp/">1,550 Kansas State Faculty Vote to Unionize</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/business/starbucks-union-workers-negotiate.html">Finally, Starbucks has returned to the bargaining table with its union after a year-long impasse. </a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p><strong>Alright folks, that’s all for today. Keep sending story ideas, tips, comments and complaints to </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><strong>[email protected]</strong></a><strong>. </strong></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">Donate to Help Us Cover the UAW Election at Mercedes in Alabama</a>. Please if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">sign up as one of our 774 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
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| <title>Anne Feeney Memorial Next Wednesday May 1st</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/anne-feeney-memorial-next-wednesday-may-1st/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:54:15 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[The Heinz History Museum is marking May Day, or International Workers Day, with a panel to honor labor folk singer Anne Feeney, who died from...]]></description> | |
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| <p>The Heinz History Museum is marking May Day, or International Workers Day, with a panel to honor labor folk singer Anne Feeney, who died from COVID in 2021.</p> | |
| <p>Feeney’s work rallying labor and feminist causes is being featured in a new exhibit at the museum dubbed “A Woman’s Place: How Women Shaped Pittsburgh”. </p> | |
| <p>Her busy touring schedule, which included playing for strikers on picket lines, earned her the moniker “the Mother Jones of Pittsburgh ”.</p> | |
| <p>The panel at Heinz History Center will begin at noon on May 1. Further details were not yet available.</p> | |
| <p>“Her grandfather actually fought on the picket lines with Mother Jones in West Virginia,” her son Dan Berlin said. “He was a labor organizer; William Patrick Feeney and mom always drew a lot of inspiration from him and from that lineage”. </p> | |
| <p>Now, school children will be able to learn about Feeney when they visit the Heinz History Center, which excites her own adult children. </p> | |
| <p>“I think she’d be thrilled. She has always felt that her work is very much part of a movement, a movement that started well before her and we’ll carry on well after her,” he said. “So I think she’d be really, really pleased to be represented in this exhibit hall set up”. </p> | |
| <p>In addition to the event at the Heinz History Center, her son and daughter are hosting a Memorial Concert at 6 p.m..</p> | |
| <p>The show will feature Liz Berlin of Rusted Root, Emma’s Revolution, the Pittsburgh Labor Choir, Evan Greer, Mike Stout, and more.</p> | |
| <p>“People all around the world are still singing my mom’s songs, and there are so many people who loved her who haven’t gotten a chance yet to celebrate her in-person, because of the pandemic,” said Amy Sue Berlin, Feeney’s daughter, who is organizing the event with Greer, who was Feeney’s friend and touring partner.</p> | |
| <p> “My mom loved May Day, so we couldn’t think of a better way to honor her than with a big concert here in Pittsburgh, the city she loved.”</p> | |
| <p>“We couldn’t do anything, when she passed away during COVID times,” she said. “Now, we’re finally able to get together and be in person to give her the party that she deserves to have and to honor her the way she would want to be honored”. </p> | |
| <p>The show will begin at 6 p.m. on May 1 at Mr. Smalls Theater, 400 Lincoln Ave, Millvale. The show is free, but there is a suggested donation of $25, which will go to the Anne Feeney Hellraiser fund that is supporting emerging artists. To register for tickets go to <a href="https://mrsmalls.com/events/anne-feeney/">www.mrsmalls.com/events/anne-feeney</a>.<strong> </strong></p> | |
| <p>In her obituary, Greer wrote, “starting in 1987–when she was inspired by Faith Petric to quit her job as an attorney and dedicate her life to touring and making music in support of workers–Anne played more than 4,000 shows across North America and Europe. She also was president of the East Hills Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). She performed for striking workers on countless picket lines, in union halls, and at some of the largest protests of the last century, including the protests that shut down the WTO in Seattle in 1999 and the historic March for Women’s Lives in 2004. Her performance at the WTO was featured in the documentary “This is What Democracy Looks Like”. She organized dozens of tours supporting various causes, including the Sing Out for Single Payer Healthcare tour in 2009, and raised tens of thousands of dollars for strike funds and progressive causes.</p> | |
| <p>“Anne’s anthem “Have You Been to Jail for Justice” has been sung by activists around the world, and was recorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary. She was a songwriter, but also a song collector who gave life to classic union hymns like Woody Guthrie’s “Union Maid,” and Joe Hill’s “Dump the Bosses off Your Back.” She released 12 albums over the course of her career, and shared stages with iconic artists like Pete Seeger, Loretta Lynn, John Prine, Toshi Reagon, The Mammals, Dan Bern, the Indigo Girls, and Billy Bragg. A lover of Irish music, she committed hundreds of Irish songs to memory, and led yearly singing tours of Ireland. She was a regular at Kerrville Folk Festival, Oregon Country Fair, and other major festivals.”</p> | |
| <p>Evan Greer contributed to this article.</p> | |
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| <p>PITTSBURGH, PA. – As a freelance labor reporter, I was always outraged by the poor treatment I received when we covered workers’ rights. When I founded Payday Report back in 2016, I wanted to found a publication that reflected the union democracy and transparency that I grew up with in a UE family in Pittsburgh. </p> | |
| <p>We have always prided ourselves on treating employees fairly, transparently, paying them at least $32-an-hour, and in keeping with the democratic trade union spirit and solidarity that inspires so many of us to join in helping others. </p> | |
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| <title>AIPAC & Allies Not Spending Against Summer Lee – Oliver Stone to Release Lula Documentary at Cannes</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/aipac-allies-not-spending-against-summer-lee-oliver-stone-to-release-lula-documentary-at-cannes/</link> | |
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| <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:54:16 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from Pittsburgh, where it appears that Congresswoman Summer Lee is cruising to re-election that is set to take place tomorrow.  AIPAC & Allies...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Greetings from Pittsburgh, where it appears that Congresswoman Summer Lee is cruising to re-election that is set to take place tomorrow. </p> | |
| <p><strong>AIPAC & Allies Not Spending Against Summer Lee </strong></p> | |
| <p>Tomorrow is primary Election Day in Pittsburgh’s heavily Democratic district. Congresswoman Summer Lee looks like she will prevail easily in her re-election bid. </p> | |
| <p>Back in October, when Summer Lee was one of the first eight democrats to call for a ceasefire after Israel started attacking Gaza, many assumed she would be in danger of re-election. In her first election, AIPAC and its allies spent more than $5 million against her. </p> | |
| <p>However, the AIPAC and its allies are not spending anything as it appears she will easily cross to re-election. From Dave Weigel at Semafor: </p> | |
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| <p>The Democratic base’s fatigue with Israel’s counteroffensive is real, and it’s a factor in Pittsburgh. Of the 13 progressive House Democrats who called for a ceasefire on Oct. 16, three were from Chicago, and none of them broke a sweat to win their primaries last month. Lee, the next Democrat facing this test, has benefitted from incumbency, from changing moods about the war, and from progressive fears that their small bloc in Congress is being targeted.</p> | |
| <p>Progressive donors mobilized quickly around Lee. By the end of 2023, she’d raised $1.4 million; she raised $1.9 million, total, for the 2022 race where she had to fend off millions of dollars from the extended AIPAC universe. (Patel had raised nearly $311,000 by the end of last year.) And the Democratic Party’s shift on Israel has clearly helped her. Lee said that she agreed with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s speech last month, urging Israel to <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/schumer-netanyahu-israel-palestinians-elections-1ebf21e4c9c0f6f42478bb26e1db7a9b" rel="noreferrer noopener">hold new elections</a>, and urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go.</p> | |
| <p>“It really speaks to how obvious the international violations are right now,” she said. “We’re seeing this movement from Democratic politicians who have traditionally been very friendly, and given a lot of grace to Netanyahu’s government.”</p> | |
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| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/09/2024/how-a-ceasefire-backing-progressive-scared-pro-israel-groups-out-of-her-race" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Semafor. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Mercedes Union to Hold Election May 13th-17th</strong></p> | |
| <p>After the massive victory of 73% at Volkswagen in Tennessee, the UAW will now turn its attention to Mercedes, where they hope to keep the momentum going. </p> | |
| <p>For more than 25 years, workers have been struggling to organize at Mercedes. <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-after-25-years-mercedes-workers-say-union-could-come-any-day-now/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(See our story and listen to our podcast on their 25-year fight)</a></p> | |
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| <p><strong>Oliver Stone to Release Lula Documentary</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, Oliver Stone announced today that his documentary on Lula’s life will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month. </p> | |
| <p>Stone follows Lula from his false imprisonment through his campaign and returns to the presidency of Brazil. The film is expected to premiere later in the year in the United States. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2024/04/festival-de-cannes-vai-exibir-documentario-sobre-lula-dirigido-por-oliver-stone.shtml" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Folha de São Paulo. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Alright, yinz, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments, and complaints to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </strong></p> | |
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| <title>73% Win Puts Volkswagen Workers in Strong Bargaining Positioning </title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/73-win-puts-volkswagen-workers-in-strong-bargaining-positioning/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 06:04:00 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE – “I’ve been through three of them. So it was just a different field for this time,” says 12-year Volkswagen worker Dontun Rutledge, standing drinking a bottle of whiskey outside of UAW’s victory party in Chattanooga last night. </p> | |
| <p>In his 12 years working at the plant, the UAW had tried and failed at Volkswagen in 2014 and again in 2019. Yesterday, the union won an astounding victory, with 73% of workers voting for the union, a sign of unity among the workforce. </p> | |
| <p>“Even with some of the older cats, there was in there, and they were the older guys, one day was in there, that were ant-union. They now is on board,” says Rutledge.</p> | |
| <p>“We are unified. You know, we know we’re not playing,” says Volkswagen employee Reggie Cole. </p> | |
| <p>As a German company, Volkswagen has repeatedly claimed that it would be neutral and bargain if it won. Prior to yesterday’s victory, the plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was the only Volkswagen plant in the world without a union. </p> | |
| <p>It’s unclear if Volkswagen will stay true to its pledge and negotiate a union contract in good faith. However, the 73% vote in favor of the union shows that Volkswagen’s union is united and could present a credible strike threat. </p> | |
| <p>“We are sending a strong message to our management team. Yes, we are real, you do have to recognize us,” said Volkswagen worker Vince Vaughn, speaking at the victory party. “We wanna sit down at the table and we wanna, as a team, because we are a union:” </p> | |
| <p><em>(For more on the victory, check out our long piece <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-04-19-ten-year-battle-younger-generation-leads-volkswagen/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“After Ten-Year Battle, A Younger Generation Leads the Way at Volkswagen.”)</a></em></p> | |
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| <title>UAW Wins Historic Volkswagen Union Election in a Landslide</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/uaw-wins-historic-volkswagen-union-election-in-a-landslide/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 01:44:44 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE – The NLRB announced tonight that UAW won a historic union election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga Tennessee. The union won with 73% as...]]></description> | |
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| <p>CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE – The NLRB announced tonight that UAW won a historic union election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga Tennessee. The union won with 73% as workers voting in favor of the union.</p> | |
| <p>It was the third time in ten years that the UAW tried to unionize, losing narrowly in two previous efforts. Now, with a victory in Chattanooga, it opens the door to more unionizing across the South. </p> | |
| <p>“About time. Mercedes is next,” texted Mercedes Alabama worker Kirk Garner, where the UAW is slated to hold a union election from May 13th to May 17th. </p> | |
| <p>For more than a decade, the UAW tried and failed to win elections. However, the UAW maintained a minority union, UAW Local 42, that kept advocating on behalf of the union for a decade. </p> | |
| <p>In the last few years, things changed dramatically at the plant in 2022 when Volkswagen added a brand new assembly line for the production of the Volkswagen ID.4. </p> | |
| <p>“We are growing, and a lot more people can smell the BS now when they say that,” says Volkswagen worker Zach Costello. </p> | |
| <p>With labor shortages throughout the manufacturing sector, many of the workers hired by Volkswagen were much younger and more diverse. Some had even moved from more pro-union parts of the country to work there.</p> | |
| <p>While in the past, Volkswagen workers, who had less experience with unions, were skeptical of the bureaucracies of the scandal-tainted UAW, younger Southern workers seemed more receptive to trying something new.</p> | |
| <p>“A lot of the people who’ve been staunchly anti-union are from an older generation,” says 32-year-old Caleb Michalski, a safety lead, who was previously anti-union, but became pro-union. “A lot of the younger generation, through a combination of social media and education and stuff like that, they realize, like, hey, it doesn’t make sense.”</p> | |
| <p>(Read my story<a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-04-19-ten-year-battle-younger-generation-leads-volkswagen/"> “After Ten-Year Battle, a Younger Generation Leads the Way at Volkswagen”</a>)</p> | |
| <p>Many of the workers like him say that they were encouraged to vote for the UAW after seeing how the union had reformed itself and changed, winning the “Stand Up” strike. </p> | |
| <p>“Seeing the current president clean up house, address corruption issues, and stand up for the workers. That was what instantly piqued my curiosity,” said Michalski. </p> | |
| <p>Workers at the plant say that they were inspired watching the waves of strikes that happened following the pandemic. </p> | |
| <p>“Seeing the writers go on strike and standing up for the rights that was, I was so excited about that,” says Michalski. “In the back of our minds was like, “Man, I wonder if auto workers, if we’re going to start seeing something like that here.’ And then once the UAW went on strike, and a lot of us are feeling a lot more hopeful, something positive is happening here as well.” </p> | |
| <p>Now, Michalski hopes that the pro-union sentiment in his plant spreads to plants across the country. </p> | |
| <p>“I am hopeful that things can finally take root in the South, that we can finally start seeing an empowered working people throughout this country, but particularly here in the South. Because I feel it’s a long time coming,” says Michalski. </p> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[A formerly anti-union Volkswagen worker explains why he now supports the union at Volkswagen.]]></description> | |
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| <p>A formerly anti-union Volkswagen worker explains why he now supports the union at Volkswagen.</p> | |
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| <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:34:34 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE – Ten years ago, Angelo Hernandez’s father was involved in the union drive at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga. That effort narrowly failed, but a decade later, the son may be able to achieve his father’s dream.</p> | |
| <p>“He was the one who, like, told me about the union before I was even in this job,” says the 20-year-old Hernandez.</p> | |
| <p>When the current union drive got started late last year, his dad started pushing him to get involved. “I’m here and I’m gonna go for it right now,” Angelo says he told his dad.</p> | |
| <p>For more than a decade, workers have fought, argued, and tried to persuade their colleagues to join a union. After the first loss at this Volkswagen plant in 2014, the United Auto Workers even established a minority union, Local 42.</p> | |
| <p>But in two prior union elections in Chattanooga, the UAW was unable to move the needle enough to win, losing the first time, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/02/14/united-auto-workers-lose-historic-election-at-chattanooga-volkswagen-plant/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">626-712</a>, and on a second try in 2019, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/volkswagen-workers-talk-wildcat-strike-following-narrow-defeat-in-chattanooga-amid-unionbusting/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">776-833</a><a href="https://paydayreport.com/volkswagen-workers-talk-wildcat-strike-following-narrow-defeat-in-chattanooga-amid-unionbusting/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">. The U.S. remained the only country in the world where Volkswagen workers were non-union.</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>THINGS BEGAN TO CHANGE IN 2022</strong>, when Volkswagen expanded the plant to produce the all-electric ID.4. In the process, the company hired over 2,000 new workers.</p> | |
| <p>With labor shortages throughout the manufacturing sector, many of the workers hired by Volkswagen were much younger and more diverse. Some had even moved from more pro-union parts of the country to work there.</p> | |
| <p>While in the past, Volkswagen workers, who had less experience with unions, were skeptical of the bureaucracies of the scandal-tainted UAW, younger Southern workers seemed more receptive to trying something new.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://prospect.org/topics/mike-elk/"><em><strong>More from Mike Elk</strong></em></a></p> | |
| <p>“I just hope it goes through,” says 25-year-old Manny Perez. “And I’m not well informed about it. I just know. Being able to have a voice of your own is more important than just letting other people decide for you.”</p> | |
| <p>Over the last decade, there has been a sea change among workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant, in large part due to this newer, younger workforce. It could lead to a historic victory in the union election, which concludes today, and the signature victory for organized labor in the South that has eluded them for years. Votes will be tallied this evening.</p> | |
| <p>“A lot of the people who’ve been staunchly anti-union are from an older generation,” says 32-year-old Caleb Michalski, a safety lead, who has worked on various assembly teams at the Volkswagen plant. “A lot of the younger generation, through a combination of social media and education and stuff like that, they realize, like, hey, it doesn’t make sense.”</p> | |
| <p><strong>VOLKSWAGEN HAS CLAIMED TO BE NEUTRAL</strong> in each campaign at the Tennessee plant. But under the radar, they have fought the union, while linking arms with <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/116653/bob-corkers-uaw-intervention-chattanooga-vw-vote-speaks-volume" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">leading politicians</a>, who repeatedly warned that the plant would close or lose shifts. Southern governors are trying the same tactics this time around, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-governors-highly-concerned-workers-are-about-to-form-unions_n_662001f0e4b0256906b72c7a" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">signing a joint statement</a> expressing alarm at the UAW campaign here and elsewhere.</p> | |
| <p>In 2019, Volkswagen fired or transferred several unpopular shop floor managers, and brought back a popular plant manager, Frank Fisher, who promised to make things better.</p> | |
| <p>“When I first started it was January 2020, immediately after the last election, and it was when, you know, the plant manager said, ‘Hey, let’s fix this in-house,’” says Michalski. “And they made a lot of changes. And so when I first started, right at the beginning of that first wave of changes, I was impressed by it.”</p> | |
| <p>He said that the receptiveness of management made him believe that it was possible to get problems at work addressed without a union.</p> | |
| <p>“Before, I was always like, ‘Well maybe the right people just don’t know,’” he says.</p> | |
| <p>However, as a safety lead, Michalski found himself frustrated in his efforts to get issues addressed within the plant. Volkswagen regularly requires him and his co-workers to lift vehicles, which can weigh over 700 or 800 pounds, and sometimes as much as 1,400 pounds.</p> | |
| <p>For nearly a year, he begged Volkswagen to get a hoist. They took little action, while many members of his team got hurt.</p> | |
| <p>“I hurt my back in November, I’ve been having chronic pain for the last month, I can barely turn my head and neck,” says Michalski. “Every single one of us have gotten injured. We’ve had two guys that had to have shoulder surgeries, a third one that’s going to have to have shoulder surgery, and one guy shattered his kneecap.”</p> | |
| <p>Michalski finally had to talk to the CEO of Volkswagen America to get a hoist approved. But weeks later, the hoist still hasn’t been installed.</p> | |
| <p>“I shouldn’t have to talk to the CEO of a multibillion-dollar corporation just to get a hoist,” says Michalski. “I think that we need the ability to say, ‘Hey, this process is unsafe.’ And that’s it, not having to argue for weeks and weeks, and weeks of meetings to say like, ‘Hey, we need a hoist.’”</p> | |
| <p>In addition to the decade-long battle to win hearts and minds at the plant, Volkswagen workers also say that the success of the “Stand Up Strike” at the Big Three U.S. automakers helped spur interest in the union.</p> | |
| <p>“You have strike after strike happening around the country. You had the writers, the actors, and then UAW followed up,” says Volkswagen worker Zach Costello, speaking of the “Summer of Strikes” last year. “And then you had the big contract [UAW] got. That, like, sparked an insane amount of discussion around unions all around the plant.”</p> | |
| <p>In the closing days of the campaign, workers say that Volkswagen’s anti-union tactics are having little effect on dissuading workers. Due to the influence of German labor law, the company has not yet engaged in anti-union “captive audience” meetings or one-on-one discussions, which can be lethal in killing union support.</p> | |
| <p>Instead, anti-union forces at Volkswagen have largely focused on TV and online ads attempting to tie the UAW election to President Biden, who is unpopular in this red state, though perhaps not entirely at the plant. Near the entrance to the plant sits a banner that reads: “Back Biden, Vote UAW.”</p> | |
| <p>In recent days, local TV ads and billboards have been blasting the UAW with messages like “UAW = Biden.” The union has endorsed Biden, who walked the picket line during the Big Three Stand Up Strike. In an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/18/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-volkswagen-plant-in-tennessee/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">official statement</a> that the union has sent to its members, Biden congratulated workers in Chattanooga for the union drive. “As one of the world’s largest automakers, many Volkswagen plants internationally are unionized,” Biden said in the statement. “As the most pro-union president in American history, I believe American workers, too, should have a voice at work. The decision whether to join a union belongs to the workers.”</p> | |
| <p>The ads are warning members repeatedly that their dues money will be spent on helping Biden’s re-election campaign.</p> | |
| <p>“UAW membership nationwide is at its lowest point since 2009. Maybe the UAW should care more about its members than politics?” <a href="https://www.stillnouaw.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">said anti-union groups in online ads blanketing Chattanooga</a>.</p> | |
| <p>With the Volkswagen plant located in “Trump country” in eastern Tennessee, UAW activists have responded by distancing themselves from the political function of their union.</p> | |
| <p>“This vote is not about politics,” Volkswagen worker Isaac Meadows told the <em>Prospect</em> in an interview. “This vote is about the workers … standing up for themselves.”</p> | |
| <p>Electing the UAW could inspire workers at other plants in the South to unionize. Already, the UAW has filed for a union election at a Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, and it has several other campaigns under way.</p> | |
| <p>Vanderbilt University sociology professor Josh Murray, who has spent years studying unionizing efforts in the South, thinks that a win at Volkswagen could create a domino effect.</p> | |
| <p>“In social movement theory there is the idea of the ‘politics of the possible,’ which says movement success breeds future movement success because it mobilizes people by giving them evidence that winning is possible,” says Murray. “Applied to the UAW, the huge victory in the strikes against GM, Ford, and Stellantis makes victory at Volkswagen more likely, and a victory at Volkswagen would make further victories at currently non-unionized plants more likely.”</p> | |
| <p>In the closing days of the third UAW election at Volkswagen in a decade, that hope is evident among workers and organizers.</p> | |
| <p>“As far as workers reclaiming our power, it starts with us,” says Michalski. “And if we can be the first to start bringing organized labor to good-paying jobs with workers who have rights here in the South, I’m all for it.”</p> | |
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| <title>UAW Runs from Politics in VW Fight – WaPo: 2/3rd VW Workers Pro-Union – UAW Centering Black Workers in Fight</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/uaw-runs-from-politics-in-vw-fight-wapo-2-3rd-vw-workers-pro-union-uaw-centering-black-workers-in-fight/</link> | |
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| <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:57:55 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from Chattanooga, where I am recovering from a 12-hour flight from Rio de Janeiro and getting into the action here. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south-2/">Big thanks to all of our readers, who donated to get us here. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Tennessee Governor Forms Alliances with 5 Other Southern Governors to Fight UAW</strong></p> | |
| <p>Today, the Governor of Tennessee announced a new alliance with Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott.</p> | |
| <p>The Governors are warning that unionization will lead to factories closing in their states. </p> | |
| <p>“No one wants to hear this, but it’s the ugly reality” <a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2024/4/16/gov--lee-joins-coalition-of-governors-in-opposing-uaw-s-unionization-campaign.html">said the governors in a jointly released statement. </a>“We’ve seen it play out this way every single time a foreign automaker plant has been unionized; not one of those plants remains in operation. And we are seeing it in the fallout of the Detroit Three strike with those automakers rethinking investments and cutting jobs.” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2024/4/16/gov--lee-joins-coalition-of-governors-in-opposing-uaw-s-unionization-campaign.html">Read the full statement here</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>UAW Shying Away from Politics in Volkswagen Unionizing Blitz </strong></p> | |
| <p>Over 4,300 Volkswagen workers will begin to vote in a three day National Labor Relations Board election here in Chattanooga. </p> | |
| <p>Nationwide, the UAW has grown its role in politics, recently becoming one of the first national unions to call for a ceasefire in Gaza</p> | |
| <p>However, in the closing days of the election, local TV ads and billboards are blasting the UAW with messages like “UAW = Biden.” President Biden previously endorsed the UAW efforts to unionize at Volkswagen. </p> | |
| <p>The ads are warning members repeatedly that their dues money will be spent on helping Biden’s election campaign. </p> | |
| <p>“UAW membership nationwide is at its lowest point since 2009. Maybe the UAW should care more about its members than politics?” <a href="https://www.stillnouaw.com/">said anti-union groups in online ads blanketing Chattanooga. </a></p> | |
| <p>With the Volkswagen plant located in “Trump Country” in Eastern Tennessee, UAW activists have responded by distancing themselves from the political function of their union. </p> | |
| <p>“The biggest anti-campaign right now is trying to make this a political thing and there are political ramifications,” Volkswagen worker Issac Meadows told Payday Report in an interview. “However, this vote is not about politics. This vote is about the workers, the worker(s) standing up for themselves.” </p> | |
| <p>Also, in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-miHjbyIZTk&t=1s">viral video produced by the labor news site More Perfect Union and distributed by the UAW </a>widely on social media, UAW workers emphasized repeatedly that the vote is not a “partisan matter.” </p> | |
| <p>“Everybody’s wanting to make this a political issue,” says UAW activist Vince Vaughn in the video. “There is nothing political about what we, the employees, are doing here.” </p> | |
| <p><strong>UAW Featuring More Black Workers in Campaign </strong></p> | |
| <p>In the previous two UAW elections at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Black workers, who are a minority in the plant, were not regularly featured or presented. </p> | |
| <p>Now, the UAW is featuring the plant’s Black workers much more widely.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-miHjbyIZTk&t=1s">Check out this video from More Perfect Union on how the UAW is featuring African-American workers more widely. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>WaPo: ⅔ of Workers Interviewed Show Pro-Union Voting Intention </strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, the Washington Post’s Jeanne Whalen interviewed 25 workers at random in the parking lot of Volkswagen and reports that ⅔rd of them say that they are pro-union. </p> | |
| <p>From the Washington Post: </p> | |
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| <p>“Of 26 Volkswagen workers who stopped to talk to a Washington Post reporter outside the factory gates this month, more than two-thirds said they planned to vote yes in the historic ballot that will test the UAW’s strategy of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/29/uaw-toyota-tesla-organize/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4">organizing</a> a dozen automakers’ southern factories. Six workers said they were undecided and two were opposed.</p> | |
| <p>“I’m pretty vocal about the union at work, and I usually ask a lot of people how they feel,” Collins said, en route to his shift building Atlas SUVs and electric ID.4 vehicles. “And from all the people I talk to, I’ve only come across three people who are against it.”</p> | |
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| <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/15/vw-uaw-tennessee-union-vote/">For more, check out the Washington Post. </a></p> | |
| <p>Alright folks, that’s all for all today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
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| <link>https://paydayreport.com/how-bidens-new-clean-air-rules-help-uaw-drive-at-vw/</link> | |
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| <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:15:26 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p><em><a href="https://prospect.org/environment/2024-03-22-new-epa-clean-car-rule-transform-unions/">The following piece is cross-posted from Dave Dayen, Executive Editor of the American Prospect </a></em></p> | |
| <p>Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) <a href="https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/epa-auto-emissions-rule" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">finalized new tailpipe emissions rules</a> for U.S. cars, the biggest Biden administration climate rule that had not yet been completed. While the rules are a bit loosened from last year’s initial proposal, giving car companies more time to reduce emissions, it still has the same overall outcome of cutting carbon pollution from vehicle transportation in half by 2032. The rules also limit other noxious pollutants from internal combustion engines, like soot and nitrogen oxide.</p> | |
| <p>While the rules are formally “technology-neutral,” meaning that the emissions targets can be reached in any way the car companies see fit, in order to hit those numbers, companies will almost certainly have to sell more vehicles powered by electricity, either in whole or in part (like with hybrids or plug-in hybrids). The EPA says that as much as 56 percent of new auto sales could consist of EVs in the 2030 to 2032 model years, if not more.</p> | |
| <p>There are other rules coming soon, including the Department of Transportation’s fuel economy standards and a separate EPA rule for heavy trucks. But this rule limiting tailpipe emissions is a big deal for the climate, and for the public health of people who breathe in tailpipe emissions and suffer accordingly.</p> | |
| <p>It just might also be a major win for American labor.</p> | |
| <p>That’s because the United Auto Workers’ first attempt in its bold strategy to organize non-union U.S. auto plants is at a Volkswagen facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This plant’s primary output is currently Volkswagen’s only electric vehicle in the U.S., and even the weaker timelines in the new rules make it close to impossible to close that plant or shift EV production elsewhere. That robs UAW antagonists of a critical and oft-deployed argument against union drives: that the facility would lose business or have to close if the unionization is successful.</p> | |
| <p>The UAW, which <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-wants-epa-soften-vehicle-emissions-plan-2023-07-07/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pushed for a slower phase-in</a> last year, seemed pleased with the final version. In a <a href="https://uaw-newsroom.prgloo.com/press-release/uaw-statement-on-the-epas-new-greenhouse-gas-emissions-rule" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">statement</a>, the union said that “the EPA has created a more feasible emissions rule” that “provid[es] a path forward for automakers to implement the full range of automotive technologies to reduce emissions … We reject the fearmongering that says tackling the climate crisis must come at the cost of union jobs.” In fact, in this case, it’s going to facilitate those union jobs.</p> | |
| <p>This week, the UAW announced that they have <a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/03/tennessee-volkswagen-uaw-union-election" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">filed for a union election</a> at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, with a bargaining unit of 4,300 hourly employees. The plant has <a href="https://media.vw.com/en-us/releases/1698" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">manufactured the ID.4</a>, an all-electric compact SUV, since 2022. It’s the company’s flagship EV, which it has called “a new chapter for Volkswagen in America.”</p> | |
| <p>The ID.4 is an American-produced vehicle, eligible under the Inflation Reduction Act’s domestic-sourcing rules for the $7,500 EV consumer rebate. The steel, interior parts, electronic components, and battery are all made in America. More important for Volkswagen, the supply chain is already set up.</p> | |
| <p>“There’s no way they can shut that factory down,” said Corey Cantor, senior associate of electric vehicles at BloombergNEF. He points out that the ID.4 represented 11.5 percent of all Volkswagen sales in the U.S. Eliminating the model would have been bad for business; with the tailpipe rules coming into force in 2027, it would now put VW out of compliance. Even John Bozzella, president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, the industry’s lead trade group, said in reaction to the new EPA rules, “The future is electric.”</p> | |
| <p>Shifting ID.4 production elsewhere would be just as difficult. The facility in Chattanooga has a battery assembly plant and a battery engineering lab on site. The company <a href="https://media.vw.com/en-us/releases/1117" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced Chattanooga</a> as its EV hub in 2019, and didn’t start making EVs there until three years later. With the tailpipe rule just a few years away, Volkswagen doesn’t have the time to rejigger its supply chain in the event of a successful union drive.</p> | |
| <p>The <em>Prospect</em> <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-02-15-southern-autoworkers-organize-vw-business-class-tries-to-wallop/">wrote about the UAW’s Volkswagen campaign</a> last month, noting that in prior efforts at the plant going back to 2014, state political officials, outside corporate front groups, and anti-union plant managers raised the possibility of the plant closing if workers voted for collective bargaining. Managers shared articles about a 1988 VW closure in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, that was blamed on UAW activity. (Low sales actually led to that shuttering.)</p> | |
| <p>This time around, organizers are preparing to rebut that claim, explaining that Volkswagen has already committed to increasing production at the plant. Now they have another point to make: The new EPA rules make closing the plant a virtual impossibility. “They will not do all this preparation just to pick up and leave,” Yolanda Peoples, who works on the engine assembly line, told the <em>Prospect </em>last month.</p> | |
| <p>Yes, it’s likely that conservative groups will challenge the EPA rule, and if Republicans gain power next year, they’ll likely try to overturn it. But California <a href="https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/california-stellantis-trump-epa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hardening its tailpipe emissions rules</a> will make this attempted sabotage difficult, since the nation’s largest state can set its own standards by law, which many other states follow. An auto industry looking for certainty and uniformity typically adheres to them. And even if that weren’t the case, the Chattanooga election will happen long before the right can do anything about the EPA’s rules.</p> | |
| <p>Robbed of the biggest tool to frighten workers, opponents of the union will have to <a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/03/tennessee-volkswagen-uaw-union-election" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">fend off a more diverse workforce</a> than the plant previously had from voting to assert their rights. The results in two previous votes of the VW plant were very close; a virtual guarantee that the plant will continue to thrive regardless of union status could be enough to put it over the top.</p> | |
| <p>That’s important for VW workers, but also for the rest of the industry. A breakthrough in the South will have resonance across other factories that the UAW is trying to organize. That includes the Mercedes facility in Vance, Alabama, where <a href="https://uaw.org/we-are-the-majority-workers-at-mercedes-benzs-largest-us-plant-announce-majority-support-for-movement-to-join-uaw/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">half the workers</a> have signed union cards, and the Alabama Hyundai and Missouri Toyota plants, where <a href="https://uaw.org/we-keep-toyota-running-workers-at-critical-toyota-plant-launch-campaign-to-join-the-uaw/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">more than 30 percent</a> have signed cards. The union has <a href="https://uaw.org/uaw-announces-40-million-commitment-to-organizing-auto-and-battery-workers-over-next-two-years/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pledged $40 million</a> toward organizing these and <a href="https://uaw.org/over-10000-autoworkers-sign-union-cards-across-13-non-union-automakers-in-major-milestone-for-historic-organizing-drive/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">several other auto and battery plants</a>, mostly in the South, over the next two years. That’s the largest funding for a union organizing drive, relative to the number of workers it’s targeting, in U.S. history.</p> | |
| <p>Hyundai has banked on an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/hyundai-and-kia-emerge-as-teslas-biggest-u-s-rivals-bc610384" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">electric-vehicle strategy</a>. While its EVs are made in Korea now, it’s currently <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/georgia/articles/2023-10-25/hyundai-is-rapidly-building-its-first-us-electric-vehicle-plant-with-production-on-track-for-2025" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">building an EV plant</a> in Georgia. All of these companies, if they want to stay in compliance and on the road in the U.S., must bring EV production here. And if VW leads the way with a unionized EV plant, it will help make the case for others to follow.</p> | |
| <p>Anti-union forces know that the Volkswagen election is critical to whether the auto sector will see a wave of unionization. “The left wants Tennessee so bad, because if they get us, the Southeast falls, and it’s game over for the republic,” Tennessee state Rep. Scott Cepicky (R) <a href="https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/transcript-leaked-audio-from-house-republican-caucus-meeting/article_1d214778-dc81-11ed-9aab-071eeaf54531.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">said</a> last year in a private meeting.</p> | |
| <p>And breakthrough unionizing may not just stay with the auto sector. Courage is contagious. It could break the seal on other workplaces in the South, and on industrial unionization efforts like the <a href="https://teamster.org/divisions/amazon-division/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Teamsters’ drive at Amazon</a>. It could show to every union in America that investing in organizing can yield results. As my colleague <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-02-26-auto-workers-go-all-in/">Harold Meyerson</a> has noted, the UAW’s efforts challenge the labor status quo, which has devalued organizing in favor of protecting the members they still have. U.S. labor law <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2023-12-04-big-barrier-uaw-union-drive/">still presents hurdles</a> to this organizing, but the UAW has a lot going in its favor, and the EPA rules add one more factor. That could help spur a snowball effect for workers everywhere.</p> | |
| <p>Transportation pushes more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than any other sector. The EPA rules are one critical way to address that. But the boost it gives to create good, union-paying jobs helps strengthen the coalition for the energy transition. That may be just as critical a legacy of the effort.</p> | |
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| <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 02:01:22 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where I will be flying up to Chattanooga from to join the fight there in 5 days and things appear to be heating up. </p> | |
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| <p><strong>Volkswagen Focusing on Biden in Anti-Union Literature </strong></p> | |
| <p>This week, Volkswagen launched a full court press to persuade workers to vote against the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>Lawn signs appeared outside of Chattanooga’s Volkswagen Plant from the StillNoUAW campaign discouraging workers with messages saying “UAW=Biden” and “#RememberWestmoreland.” (Referencing the closure of Volkswagen’s last North American plant in Westmoreland County, where my mother worked, that closed in 1988 after several wildcat UAW strikes). </p> | |
| <p>The signs direct workers to check out the website<a href="http://StillNoUaw.com"> StillNoUAW.com</a>, which features photos of the “Stand Up Strike,” and warns Volkswagen workers to not allow “Chattanooga to Become Detroit.” </p> | |
| <p>When the website opens up, it features an immediate quote from Donald Trump on his social media platform “Truth Social” reading, “[UAW President] Shawn Fain is a Weapon of Mass Destruction on Auto Workers & the Automobile Manufacturing Industry in the United States.”</p> | |
| <p>The site and messaging from the company focuses heavily on the UAW’s role in supporting Biden and opposing Trump. </p> | |
| <p>“The UAW endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and again in 2024, repeatedly attacking former President Trump,” says the <a href="https://www.stillnouaw.com/">Still No UAW website</a>. “UAW membership nationwide is at its lowest point since 2009. Maybe the UAW should care more about its members than politics?” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.stillnouaw.com/">Read the full website here. </a></p> | |
| <p><em>Update: Since posting yesterday, it appears that the signs appear to be torn down. The signs also appeared to be made by a group calling itself “VW Chatt Workers, for VW Chatt Workers”. It’s unclear what level of coordination the group has with Volkswagen. </em></p> | |
| <p><strong>No Captive Audience Meetings at Volkswagen </strong></p> | |
| <p>So far, the German automaker has refrained from captive audience meetings that many other anti-union employers successfully use. Captive audience meetings are outlawed in Germany and could be a violation of German law for a German company to use them abroad. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-04-08-american-workers-german-law-uaw-unions/">(For more on how German labor law could help workers organize, check out Harold Meyerson at the American Prospect) </a></p> | |
| <p>So far, pro-union Volkswagen workers say that tying the UAW to Biden isn’t having much effect in Chattanooga. </p> | |
| <p>“They keep trying to use politics to divide us, and to scare us into getting back into line,” Volkswagen worker Zach Costello told Payday Report. He says that the highlight on politics hasn’t had a large impact in the plant, persuading “only a couple of edge voters here and there, but no significant exodus, but they are trying hard to use that.” </p> | |
| <p><strong>19 Stories on UAW Drives Filed in 2024 – Give $19 to Help Us File More </strong></p> | |
| <p>So far, Payday has filed 19 stories about the UAW drive, more than any other media outlet. (<a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/">Be sure to read our 5 page analysis of why this UAW election is different from the ones I covered in 2014 and 2019</a>)</p> | |
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| <p><strong>Concession Workers Strike 76s vs. Pistons Game in Philadelphia </strong></p> | |
| <p>Tonite, the 76ers vs Pistons Game went on despite a strike by concession workers employed by Aramark at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. </p> | |
| <p>“We are looking for humane treatment. We work for a multi-billion-dollar company and we have no healthcare offered to us. We have no paid sick time, we get no paid time off,” bartender Carlton Epps told WHYY. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://whyy.org/articles/aramark-strike-philadelphia-wells-fargo-center-unite-here-local/">For more, check out WHYY. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Baltimore Dockworkers Fear Unemployment </strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, thousands of dockworkers in Baltimore fear long-term unemployment as their port shuts down. From Washington Post: </p> | |
| <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> | |
| <p>“The workers gathered in dive bars, union buildings and port parking lots this week, uncertain whether they’ll get government assistance while crews work furiously to clear the tangle of bridge wreckage that is now submerged in the Patapsco River.</p> | |
| <p>A lot of the workers were afraid to talk Monday, the union representatives all said “no comment,” and everyone is nervous that their predicament will be forgotten and that the forecast by the Army Corps of Engineers that it will be able to clear the shipping channel by the end of May is too optimistic.</p> | |
| <p>However long the wait ends up being, it will feel longer.</p> | |
| <p>Last year this was the busiest port in the nation for the transport of cars and light trucks, and it’s a hub for other types of vehicles and machinery, all of which can require specialized equipment and facilities to load and unload, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/05/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-actions-following-the-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse/">according</a> to the White House.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/08/key-bridge-baltimore-longshoremen/">For more, check out the Washington Post. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Strikes & News Happening Elsewhere </strong></p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/union-petitions-up-36-unfair-labor-practices-charge-filings-up-7-in-the">Union Petitions Up 36%, Unfair Labor Practices Charge Filings Up 7% in the First Half of Fiscal Year 2024</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://apnews.com/article/amazon-labor-union-election-35b63f38aa1c7f82bc86c21936e02a78">Two years after its historic win, a divided Amazon Labor Union lurches toward a leadership election</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.musicalartists.org/miami-city-ballet-management-launches-aggressive-coordinated-union-busting-campaign/">Miami City Ballet management launches aggressive, coordinated union busting campaign</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/cinema-village-unionization-drive-1235867494/">Workers at Cinema Village, one of New York’s oldest art theaters, launch unionization drive</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-players-union-trade-blame-for-pitcher-injuries-as-mlbpa-condemns-pitch-clock-league-faults-velocity/">MLB, players union trade blame for pitcher injuries as MLBPA condemns pitch clock, league faults velocity</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/04/113_372371.html">Korea’s strike wave of doctor walkouts continue</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://time.com/6964364/exclusive-no-tech-for-apartheid-google-workers-protest-project-nimbus-1-2-billion-contract-with-israel/">Finally, a look at how Google workers are organizing against the company</a> </li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p><strong>Alright yinz, that’s all for today. Keep sending story ideas, tips, comments, and complaints to </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><strong>[email protected]</strong></a><strong> </strong></p> | |
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| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk</p> | |
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| <p>In just 3 months in 2023, Payday Report has filed 19 dispatches and stories on the UAW’s effort to organize at non-union employers particularly in the South, more than any other outlet on the left. </p> | |
| <p>Next week, we will arrive in Chattanooga to cover the historic UAW election at Volkswagen there set to take place from April 17th to 19th. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/">(See our viral 5 page analysis of why this UAW election is different than the other two that I covered at Volkswagen in 2014 and 2019)</a></p> | |
| <p>We will likely spend the rest of the summer on the road covering UAW elections in the South and we are gonna need to raise a lot of money to do it. </p> | |
| <p>Mercedes workers filed for a union election last week. They will likely have one by the end of April or early May. </p> | |
| <p>Toyota workers in Troy, Missouri say they are close to having a majority of workers sign up at their plant. Hyundai workers in Montgomery, Alabama have already gone public with a union campaign and are making steady progress. </p> | |
| <p>A win in Chattanooga could inspire other non-union workers to fight for the same kind of benefits that non-union workers won in the historic Stand Up Strike. </p> | |
| <p>The UAW has tried twice to unionize at Chattanooga and failed both in 2014 and 2019. This campaign feels very different. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/">(Read my analysis of how things changed there over the last decade). </a></p> | |
| <p>I was there and covered both those campaigns in 2014 and 2019. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/the-battle-for-chattanooga-toxic-masculinity-ableism-anti-union-campaign-at-volkswagen/">(Read my 4,000-word analysis of the 2014 defeat titled “Toxic Masculinity & the Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen.”)</a></p> | |
| <p>In 2016, I used my NLRB settlement from being illegally fired for union organizing at POLITICO and moved to Chattanooga. It was clear that things were beginning to change in the South, and I shared this inspiring story in my coverage of the third union attempt at Volkswagen. </p> | |
| <p>While living in Chattanooga, I tracked and covered the efforts of the minority union to keep the union fight alive there for more than a decade. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/volkswagen-workers-talk-wildcat-strike-following-narrow-defeat-in-chattanooga-amid-unionbusting/">(See my 2019 story on how the minority union at Volkswagen in Chattanooga continued to fight)</a></p> | |
| <p>Something about this election in 2024 seems very different than those previous union elections. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/payday-interactive-strike-tracker/">After the massive strike wave that saw over 3,000 strikes since the beginning of the pandemic according to Payday Report’s Strike Tracker</a>, workers are mobilizing in new ways, as we saw during the success of the “Stand Up Strike”.</p> | |
| <p>We have hired local camera crew in Chattanooga to help us cover the Volkswagen union election and are hoping to hire one in Alabama to help us, but we need to secure the money to </p> | |
| <p>A win in Chattanooga will open the door for organizing and we are gonna need a lot of money to cover it. </p> | |
| <p>Donate to help us raise $5,000 to cover the first two UAW elections at Mercedes and Volkswagen. We will likely need to ask for more as more organizing drives pop up, but help us cover these first two.</p> | |
| <p>Donate to help us cover this historic union victory.</p> | |
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| <title>Help Cover UAW Elections at VW & Mercedes in the South</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-elections-at-vw-mercedes-in-the-south/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:53:10 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[In just the first 3 months in 2023, Payday Report has filed 19 dispatches and stories on the UAW’s effort to organize at non-union employers...]]></description> | |
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| <p>In just the first 3 months in 2023, Payday Report has filed 19 dispatches and stories on the UAW’s effort to organize at non-union employers particularly in the South, more than any other outlet on the left. </p> | |
| <p>Next week, we will arrive in Chattanooga to cover the historic UAW election at Volkswagen there set to take place from April 17th to 19th. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/">(See our viral 5 page analysis of why this UAW election is different than the other two that I covered at Volkswagen in 2014 and 2019)</a></p> | |
| <p>We will likely spend the rest of the summer on the road covering UAW elections in the South and we are gonna need to raise a lot of money to do it. </p> | |
| <p>Mercedes workers filed for a union election last week. They will likely have one by the end of April or early May. </p> | |
| <p>Toyota workers in Troy, Missouri say they are close to having a majority of workers sign up at their plant. Hyundai workers in Montgomery, Alabama have already gone public with a union campaign and are making steady progress. </p> | |
| <p>A win in Chattanooga could inspire other non-union workers to fight for the same kind of benefits that non-union workers won in the historic Stand Up Strike. </p> | |
| <p>The UAW has tried twice to unionize at Chattanooga and failed both in 2014 and 2019. This campaign feels very different. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/">(Read my analysis of how things changed there over the last decade). </a></p> | |
| <p>I was there and covered both those campaigns in 2014 and 2019. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/the-battle-for-chattanooga-toxic-masculinity-ableism-anti-union-campaign-at-volkswagen/">(Read my 4,000-word analysis of the 2014 defeat titled “Toxic Masculinity & the Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen.”)</a></p> | |
| <p>In 2016, I used my NLRB settlement from being illegally fired for union organizing at POLITICO and moved to Chattanooga. It was clear that things were beginning to change in the South, and I shared this inspiring story in my coverage of the third union attempt at Volkswagen. </p> | |
| <p>While living in Chattanooga, I tracked and covered the efforts of the minority union to keep the union fight alive there for more than a decade. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/volkswagen-workers-talk-wildcat-strike-following-narrow-defeat-in-chattanooga-amid-unionbusting/">(See my 2019 story on how the minority union at Volkswagen in Chattanooga continued to fight)</a></p> | |
| <p>Something about this election in 2024 seems very different than those previous union elections. <a href="https://paydayreport.com/payday-interactive-strike-tracker/">After the massive strike wave that saw over 3,000 strikes since the beginning of the pandemic according to Payday Report’s Strike Tracker</a>, workers are mobilizing in new ways, as we saw during the success of the “Stand Up Strike”.</p> | |
| <p>A win in Chattanooga will open the door for organizing and we are gonna need a lot of money to cover it. </p> | |
| <p>Donate to help us raise $5,000 to cover the first two UAW elections at Mercedes and Volkswagen. We will likely need to ask for more as more organizing drives pop up, but help us cover these first two.</p> | |
| <p>Donate to help us cover this historic union victory.</p> | |
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| <title>Chattanooga Officials Threaten Subsidizes if VW Unionizes – German Courts Could Crack Down on Union Busting in Alabama – Simpson to Air “Night of Living Wage”</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/chattanooga-officials-threaten-to-cut-tax-incentives-if-vw-unionizes-german-courts-could-crack-down-on-union-busting-in-alabama-simpson-to-air-night-of-living-wage/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:27:23 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where I am getting ready to go directly to Chattanooga in a week.  With the union campaign heating up...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where I am getting ready to go directly to Chattanooga in a week. </p> | |
| <p>With the union campaign heating up there, I won’t have time to go back to Pittsburgh. I’m going directly to Chattanooga so I can dig in for the fight.</p> | |
| <p><strong>Chattanooga Officials Threaten to Cut Tax Incentives if VW Unionizes</strong></p> | |
| <p>This week, <a href="https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/apr/01/wamp-others-call-for-vote-against-uaw-at/#/questions">Republican Chattanooga County and City officials held a press conference outside of Volkswagen’s plant</a>. </p> | |
| <p>Appearing in front of a banner that read “Protect Our Jobs – Vote NO UAW,” the elected officials told assembled reporters and TV crews that the city and county have invested millions of dollars into the plant over the years and they would be closely monitoring the election</p> | |
| <p>In a County Council meeting this week, Hamilton County Mayor Welton Wamp warned that if the workers at the plant voted to unionize that it would have <a href="https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/apr/03/hamilton-county-commissioners-clash-over-vw/">“major consequences” </a>for the plant moving forward; a subtle reference that the county may vote to cut off millions of dollars of subsidies for the plant. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/">In both the 2014 and 2019 campaigns at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, local officials also threatened to cut off tax incentives, which proved effective both times in dampening union support. </a></p> | |
| <p>However, Volkswagen in 2022 expanded their plant to produce electric vehicles, making any downsizing extremely unlikely with the incentives that President Joe Biden has provided for electric vehicle production. </p> | |
| <p>For more on why the plant is unlikely to close, <a href="https://prospect.org/environment/2024-03-22-new-epa-clean-car-rule-transform-unions/">check out Dave Dayen at the American Prospect. </a><em><br></em><a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/"><em>(</em></a><em>Be sure to also </em><a href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/"><em>check out my 5-page analysis of why the UAW drive at VW in Chattanooga is very different than two previous drives that I covered there in 2014 and 2019)</em></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Donate Hotel Points for UAW Election Coverage in Chattanooga</strong></p> | |
| <p>I am going to have to stay for more than a week in Chattanooga to cover the UAW Election at Volkswagen. To avoid having to rent a car, I am going to stay in downtown Chattanooga and have the camera operator drive us around. </p> | |
| <p>It will likely cost us nearly $700 for a week’s stay. </p> | |
| <p>If anyone has any hotel points that they want to donate to help us defer the costs, please contact me <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-election-at-vw-in-chattanooga/">Donate to Help Us Cover the Historic UAW Election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>German Courts Could Crack Down on Union Busting in Alabama </strong></p> | |
| <p>This week, the UAW announced that they are going to file for a union election at Mercedes within the week, meaning that a union election will likely be held by late April or early May. </p> | |
| <p>The union has already filed multiple National Labor Relations Board charges against Mercedes in the US, but now the UAW has also filed charges against Mercedes Benz in Germany. </p> | |
| <p>Under the “German Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains,” UAW can be held liable for the mistreatment of its workers in Alabama. </p> | |
| <p>The UAW is the first American company to file a complaint under the new law, which just took effect last year. </p> | |
| <p>“Workers at Mercedes-Benz’s sprawling assembly and battery plant in Vance, Ala., are organizing to join the UAW and have faced fierce backlash from company management,” the UAW said in a statement. “Every Mercedes-Benz plant in the world is unionized — except the company’s two plants in the United States”. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://uaw.org/uaw-files-charges-in-germany-against-mercedes-benz-companys-anti-union-campaign-against-u-s-autoworkers-violates-new-german-law-on-global-supply-chain-practices/">Read a full list of the charges that UAW has filed against Mercedes-Benz in a German Court. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Union Democracy Revolt Squashed in Major League Players’ Union </strong></p> | |
| <p>Last week,<a href="https://paydayreport.com/bolsonaro-indicted-revolt-in-major-league-baseball-player-union-saskatchewan-teachers-threatens-basketball-championship/"> Payday covered how major league players had risen up in revolt against the Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark </a>and demanded that Harry Marino receive a leadership role in the organization. </p> | |
| <p>However, now it appears that the uprising has been quashed with the help of sports agent Scott Boras. </p> | |
| <p>“We still have issues to discuss, but one thing clear among the MLB executive subcommittee members is that this is no longer a Harry Marino discussion, in any respect,” <a href="https://africa.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39802349/tony-clark-agendas-fueling-effort-oust-bruce-meyer">said MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark in a statement released by the union. </a></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://africa.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39855008/mlbpa-executive-director-tony-clark-compensation-nearly-doubled-2023-per-union-financial-report">For more, check out ESPN. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>California Schools to Compete w/ Fast Food Companies to Hire Workers after $20-an-Hour Minimum Wage </strong></p> | |
| <p>This week, California enacted a $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers. Now, some schools in California say they are competing with fast food companies to hire workers, particularly to work in cafeterias. </p> | |
| <p>“They are all very worried about it. Most are saying they anticipate it will be harder and harder to hire employees,” Carrie Bogdanovich, president of the California School Nutrition Association, told the AP. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-fast-food-minimum-wage-school-workers-eecf616b677c3bac087b3a6940137817">For more, check out the AP. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Simpsons to Air “Night of the Living Wage” on Sunday</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, the Simpsons will air an episode on Sunday entitled “Night of the Living Wage.” The episode is set to air on Sunday Night at 8/7c on Fox and the next day on Hulu. From <em>TV Regular</em>: </p> | |
| <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> | |
| <p>“When Marge lands a job in a high-pressure ghost kitchen, she quickly realizes that the working conditions are less than ideal. Determined to improve the situation for herself and her fellow workers, Marge decides to take action and start a union. However, her noble efforts lead to unexpected consequences, and she finds herself facing challenges she never anticipated.</p> | |
| <p>As Marge navigates the ups and downs of her new job and union endeavors, audiences can look forward to plenty of laughs, heartfelt moments, and perhaps even some valuable lessons about the importance of standing up for one’s rights. Don’t miss “Night of the Living Wage” on April 7 at 8:00 PM, only on FOX.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://tvregular.com/2024/03/31/the-simpsons-season-35-episode-14-night-of-the-living-wage-april-7-2024-preview-spoilers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-simpsons-season-35-episode-14-night-of-the-living-wage-april-7-2024-preview-spoilers">For more, check out TV Regular. </a></p> | |
| <p>Simpsons writer Cesar Mazariegos said the episode was inspired by the Hollywood Strikes. </p> | |
| <p>“We wrote this ep in the lead up to the<a href="https://twitter.com/WGAWest"> @WGAWest</a> and<a href="https://twitter.com/sagaftra"> @sagaftra</a> strikes, and produced it after winning our contract,” <a href="https://twitter.com/CesarWeGetIt/status/1775545742624784776">tweeted Mazariegos.</a> “Our amazing<a href="https://twitter.com/IATSE"> @IATSE</a> animators and production staff did a hell of a job on this one, and their contract is up next.” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1775978109386305967">Check out a preview clip of the episode, which is a parody of the hit show “The Bear.” </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Strikes & News Elsewhere </strong></p> | |
| <ul class="wp-block-list"> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-04/chile-port-workers-stage-protests-threatening-commodity-exports">Chile port worker stage protests nationwide</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-doctors-strike-president-yoon-673d7cd4fe30cec0601519ff7c4b2466">South Korea’s president meets leader of doctors’ strike as he seeks to end their walkout</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/immigrant-who-died-in-ice-custody-spent-13-years-in-solitary-many-in-wa-prisons/">Immigrant who died in ICE custody spent 13 years in solitary — many in WA prisons</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.kaaltv.com/news/mayo-clinic-pushes-back-against-rochester-nurse-unionization-efforts/">Mayo Clinic pushes back against Rochester nurse unionization efforts</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://nwlaborpress.org/2024/04/potbelly-sandwich-spent-100k-to-fight-union/">Potbelly Sandwich spent $100k to fight union</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/university-of-montana-grad-employees-form-union">University of Montana grad employees form union</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2024-04-03/unionized-reporters-at-the-democrat-and-chronicle-voting-to-strike-this-weekend-if-a-new-contract-has-not-been-reached">Finally, reporters at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle have voted to strike during the eclipse this week when the town will be flooded tourists. </a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p><strong>Alright yinz, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </strong></p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-election-at-vw-in-chattanooga-2/">Donate to help us cover the historic UAW election at Volkswagen.</a> Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-election-at-vw-in-chattanooga-2/">sign up as one of our 776 recurring donors today. </a>Thanks for your all support and contributions. </p> | |
| <p>Love & Solidarity, </p> | |
| <p>Melk </p> | |
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| <title>Anti-UAW Union Buster Secretly Behind Hit Labor News Site</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/anti-uaw-union-buster-secretly-behind-hit-labor-news-site/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 06:02:56 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[LaborUnionNews.com has quickly become the “Drudge Report of Labor News”; the largest aggregator of news about unions on the web, boasting that it links to...]]></description> | |
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| <p><a href="http://www.laborunionnews.com">LaborUnionNews.com</a> has quickly become the “Drudge Report of Labor News”; the largest aggregator of news about unions on the web, boasting that it links to over 50 news articles a day and has posted links to more than 34,000 labor news articles since it started in 2023. </p> | |
| <p>Among labor movement activists, LaborUnionNews.com quickly amassed a large following mainly due to its daily posting of NLRB union election petitions and prolific aggregation of labor news. </p> | |
| <p>As a veteran labor reporter, I signed up for a subscription a few months ago to help prepare our labor newsletter. I thought it was a low-budget labor news aggregator; they even solicited crowdfunding from labor readers, as a site like my own Payday Report does. </p> | |
| <p>Now, I have discovered that <a href="http://www.laborunionnews.com">LaborUnionNews.com </a>is run by a notorious union buster named Peter List, who runs a multi-million dollar union-busting empire. </p> | |
| <p>A decade ago, I exposed that List had previously worked with Senator Bob Corker to help anti-union forces narrowly defeat the UAW in 2014. </p> | |
| <p>Now, the website uses its mass following to spread fake news about anti-the UAW in the run-up to the historic UAW election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, which could confuse many local reporters and activists. </p> | |
| <p>On the surface, LaborUnionNews.com could appear similar to other popular lower-budget labor news sites and aggregators like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.laborpress.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Labor Press</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://labortribune.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Labor Tribune</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://nwlaborpress.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Northwest Labor Press</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://onlabor.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener">On Labor</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Things Work,</a> and maybe even <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/subscribe/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Payday Report</a>.</p> | |
| <p>However, mixed among links to mainstream labor news about real labor struggles and even links to left-wing websites about the UAW election in Chattanooga (including links to Payday Report), List has begun subtly mixing in anti-UAW articles that could confuse and trick many readers. </p> | |
| <p>Yesterday,<a target="_blank" href="https://laborunionnews.substack.com/p/union-watchdog-uaw-leaders-bask-in?utm_source=substack&publication_id=705369&post_id=143205862&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=60xb&triedRedirect=true" rel="noreferrer noopener"> List blasted out a link to his thousands of followers that reads</a>, “Union Watchdog: UAW Leaders Bask In Puerto Rico As Members Get Laid Off.” </p> | |
| <p>The article, published simply under the byline “LaborUnionNews.com,” one of the few original articles on the website, links to a study put out by <a target="_blank" href="https://laborlab.us/on-the-line-the-truth-about-the-center-for-union-facts/" rel="noreferrer noopener">the anti-union “Center for Union Facts” </a>about <a target="_blank" href="https://uawlocal862.org/blog/uaw-donates-28k-help-members-puerto-rico" rel="noreferrer noopener">a conference held in Puerto Rico, where the UAW represents over 5,000 union members.</a> </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/exclusive-union-buster-rick-berman-on-his-anti-uaw-strategy-at-vw-in-chattanooga/" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>(In 2019, I profiled how the group worked heavily against the UAW in Chattanooga during the second UAW election there). </em></a></p> | |
| <p>“At a time when Fain and UAW leaders are hoping to unionize foreign-owned automakers, with travel to exotic places like Puerto Rico, the new union leadership may run the risk of being viewed by its current members, as well as potential new members, as being only a slight departure from the prior leaders who spent millions of dollars of members’ dues on themselves,” <a target="_blank" href="https://laborunionnews.substack.com/p/union-watchdog-uaw-leaders-bask-in?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=705369&post_id=143205862&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=60xb&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote the post on LaborUnionNews.com</a> </p> | |
| <p>Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that <a target="_blank" href="https://uawlocal862.org/blog/uaw-donates-28k-help-members-puerto-rico" rel="noreferrer noopener">the UAW represents over 5,000 union members in Puerto Rico, where the conference was hosted. </a>(UAW Region 9A even recently produced an online video highlighting Puerto Rico’s proud history.)</p> | |
| <p>While the article may seem like one done by a low-budget union democracy activist concerned about union spending,<a target="_blank" href="https://olmsapps.dol.gov/query/orgReport.do?rptId=864381&rptForm=LM21Form" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Peter List has paid more than $1.5 million to freelance union busters in 202</a>2 alone, according to federal Department of Labor records tracked by the website<a target="_blank" href="https://laborlab.us/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> LaborLab.</a> </p> | |
| <p>However, given all the links to legitimate news organizations on LaborUnionsNews.com, a rank-and-file Volkswagen worker reading the article blasting the UAW’s conference in Puerto Rico would not know that a union buster secretly wrote the article or that the union that had 5,000 members in Puerto Rico. </p> | |
| <p>Given that List previously worked with union busters at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, including Senator Bob Corker, the article will likely be used to falsely accuse the UAW leadership of vacationing in Puerto Rico on the union’s dime. Volkswagen supervisors may even share in anti-union workers to make the UAW look corrupt. </p> | |
| <p>Payday Report discovered that List owns <a target="_blank" href="http://laborunionnews.com" rel="noreferrer noopener">LaborUnionNews.com </a>after noticing the site was registered to an address on the resort community of Pawley Island, South Carolina, an unusual place for a labor publication to be based. After some googling, I quickly discovered that the Pawley Island address was the same address routinely used by List’s various anti-union operations, including Kouture Kulture and Labor Union Report. </p> | |
| <p>Not only does List not disclose his name in posting on LaborUnionNews.com, but he also doesn’t disclose his extensive work with former Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), which successfully led efforts to defeat a UAW attempt at Volkswagen in 2014. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/emails-show-bob-corkers-chief-of-staff-coordinated-with-anti-uaw-groups" rel="noreferrer noopener">In 2014, I broke the story for <em>In These Times</em> magazine about how List had worked with Corker</a> to spread similar anti-UAW talking points among plant workers. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/emails-show-bob-corkers-chief-of-staff-coordinated-with-anti-uaw-groups" rel="noreferrer noopener">Using documents obtained initially by NewsChannel 5 in Nashville</a>, I traced emails from just before the union election, which showed Sen. Corker’s chief of staff and one of Gov. Haslam’s cabinet members were part of an email chain with both Chattanooga-based and national anti-union consultants about efforts to draw attention to three videos produced to fight the UAW at Volkswagen. </p> | |
| <p>The videos feature testimonials from workers at previous UAW plants claiming that the UAW destroyed Detroit and led to the closure of a former Volkswagen plant in Westmoreland County, PA, in 1988. </p> | |
| <p><em>(Full disclosure: both my mother and aunt worked at the plant and were active in the union efforts in the 1980s). </em></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/emails-show-bob-corkers-chief-of-staff-coordinated-with-anti-uaw-groups" rel="noreferrer noopener">During the height of the anti-union drive, in a February 10, 2014 email with the subject line ”Video views so far today,” sent to many on Bob Corker’s staff, Peter List boasted of the anti-UAW videos’ web traffic.</a> </p> | |
| <p>The email was addressed to, among others, Sen. Corker’s chief of staff, Tony Womack; Maury Nicely, the head of the local Chattanooga anti-union group Southern Momentum; Charleston, S.C.-based anti-union consultant Jim Gray; and former Volkswagen plant manager Don Jackson, whose <a target="_blank" href="https://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/16420/the_battle_for_chattanooga_southern_masculinity_and_the_anti_union_campaign" rel="noreferrer noopener">role</a> in campaigning against the UAW I had previously revealed. Also in the chain was Tim Spires, president and CEO of the Chattanooga Regional Manufacturers’ Association, which <a target="_blank" href="https://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/15965/volkswagen_tied_to_another_anti_union_group" rel="noreferrer noopener">promoted</a> anti-UAW events, and Ron Harr, president and CEO of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.</p> | |
| <p>The next day, Corker’s Chief of Staff, Todd Womack, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newschannel5.com/category/267935/vw-incentive-offer-related-emails" rel="noreferrer noopener">forwarded</a> List’s email to Tennessee economic and community development commissioner Bill Hagerty — a member of Gov. Haslam’s cabinet — and Hagerty’s chief of staff, Will Alexander (who was the son of former U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander) with a message saying ”If you would, please don’t forward this version, but this is the video I mentioned. Thanks much, Todd.”</p> | |
| <p>At the time, Peter List refused to answer questions about why he was emailing Senator Corker’s staff, telling me in 2014, ”It seems you’ve fallen into the trap that people actually pay attention to what politicians say.”</p> | |
| <p>Corker, whose anti-UAW talking points were prepared in part by List, was widely quoted on TV and in the local newspapers, helping to defeat <a target="_blank" href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/emails-show-bob-corkers-chief-of-staff-coordinated-with-anti-uaw-groups" rel="noreferrer noopener">the UAW’s first union drive at VW in Chattanooga by a vote total of 626 for the union to 712 against the union.</a> </p> | |
| <p>With the UAW trying for its third time in a decade to win a union drive at VW in Chattanooga, List is using LaborUnionNews.com to plant anti-UAW stories composed by union busters into the local conversations. With links to legitimate news organizations and even left-wing ones, some workers may be tricked into believing their anti-UAW talking points, but union buster trackers like Bob Funk say workers should be weary. </p> | |
| <p>“Labor Union News is run by one of the most prolific union-busters in the country,” says LaborLab Executive Director Bob Funk. “Beyond promoting outdated economic policies that look like they were copy-pasted from the 1980s, you have to question the motives of someone who makes millions of dollars traveling the country telling underpaid and underappreciated working families they don’t need unions.” </p> | |
| <p><em>UPDATE: After publication, union buster Peter List emailed Payday Report union buster Peter List contacted Payday Report to say that he was misunderstood. </em></p> | |
| <p><em>“We should talk sometime (we did once back in 2014, I think),” wrote List in an email to Payday Report. “I’m really not the bogeyman you make me out to be (but I do enjoy the ‘notorious’ moniker)”. </em></p> | |
| <p><em>List also invited me to come onto his podcast. I declined the invitation and responded with a set of questions demanding to know who funded his work against the UAW. </em></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-election-at-vw-in-chattanooga-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to Help Us Cover the Historic UAW Election at VW in Chattanooga </a></p> | |
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| <p>From April 17th to 19th, a historic union election will be underway at Volkswagen in Chattanooga. </p> | |
| <p>If the UAW wins in Chattanooga, it will open the door to organizing at non-union auto plants throughout the South. </p> | |
| <p>Currently, a majority of Mercedes workers in Alabama have signed up to join the UAW, and an election is expected soon. Public union drives have been announced at Hyundai in Alabama and Toyota in Missouri. </p> | |
| <p>A win in Chattanooga could inspire other non-union workers to fight for the same kind of benefits that non-union workers won in the historic Stand Up Strike. </p> | |
| <p>The UAW has tried twice to unionize at Chattanooga and failed both in 2014 and 2019. This campaign feels very different. <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Read my analysis of how things changed there over the last decade). </a></p> | |
| <p>I was there and covered both those campaigns in 2014 and 2019. <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/the-battle-for-chattanooga-toxic-masculinity-ableism-anti-union-campaign-at-volkswagen/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Read my 4,000-word analysis of the 2014 defeat entitled “Toxic Masculinity & the Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen.”)</a></p> | |
| <p>In 2016, I used my NLRB settlement from being illegally fired for union organizing at POLITICO and moved to Chattanooga. It was clear that things were beginning to change in the South, and I shared this inspiring story in my coverage of the third union attempt at Volkswagen. </p> | |
| <p>While living in Chattanooga, I tracked and covered the efforts of the minority union to keep the union fight alive there for more than a decade. <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/volkswagen-workers-talk-wildcat-strike-following-narrow-defeat-in-chattanooga-amid-unionbusting/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(See my 2019 story on how the minority union at Volkswagen in Chattanooga continued to fight)</a></p> | |
| <p>Something about this election in 2024 seems very different than those previous union elections. After the massive strike wave that saw over 3,000 strikes since the beginning of the pandemic, workers are mobilizing in new ways, as we saw during the success of the “Stand Up Strike.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Read my entire 5-page analysis “How Things Changed in Chattanooga” over the past decade of the union fight there)</a></p> | |
| <p>This is a crucial fight to cover, and it could inspire other workers to unionize elsewhere. I would like to hire a crew of local video journalists to tell the story of workers fighting back. </p> | |
| <p>I’m the only national labor reporter who has covered all three union attempts, and I desperately want to be there to cover what could be a historic union victory. Payday Report can provide coverage that no other publication in the country can. </p> | |
| <p>All of this is expensive. It will require paying the video journalists, airfare for me, hotel costs, and food, which is going to be important because we’re going to need it to work. </p> | |
| <p>Payday will need $2,000 to cover this historic union election fully. We must raise all of this money before the union election. </p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover this historic union victory. </a></p> | |
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| <title>Rio Governor Says Franco Arrests Delayed to Help Bolsonaro Election – Boeing Whistleblower Files Released – Boston Univ. Using AI as Scabs</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/rio-governor-says-franco-arrests-delayed-to-help-bolsonaro-boeing-whistleblower-files-released-boston-univ-using-ai-as-scabs/</link> | |
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| <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:44:42 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Folks,  Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where I am getting ready to wind down my filming on my documentary about the assassination of Marielle Franco...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Folks, </p> | |
| <p>Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where I am getting ready to wind down my filming on my documentary about the assassination of Marielle Franco and head to Chattanooga, Tennessee. </p> | |
| <p><strong>17% Raised Towards $2,000 Goal in Late Night Twitter Blitz </strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier today, I sent an email outlining our plan & budget to cover the historic UAW election at VW in Chattanooga. We have 20 days to raise $2,000. </p> | |
| <p>So far, we have raised $335 towards our $2,000 Goal. This is 16% of our goal with 20 days left to go. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-election-at-vw-in-chattanooga/">Donate to help us cover the historic UAW election at VW in Chattanooga.</a> Please, if you can, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-uaw-election-at-vw-in-chattanooga/">sign up as one of our 773 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Rio Governor Says Arrests in Marielle Franco Assassination Delayed to Help Bolsonaro</strong></p> | |
| <p>Yesterday, <a href="https://www.metropoles.com/colunas/paulo-cappelli/marielle-policia-evitou-prender-lessa-em-ano-eleitoral-aponta-witzel">former Rio de Janeiro State Governor Wilson Witzel said that the announcement of the initial arrest of the gunman who killed Marielle Franco was delayed to help the 2018 Presidential campaign of Jair Bolsonaro. </a></p> | |
| <p>In October of 2018, Witzel was elected Governor of Rio de Janeiro state as an ally of Jair Bolsonaro, although he later turned against Bolsonaro. Witzel would later be impeached for embezzlement and corruption as Rio’s Governor by members of both Lula and Bolsonaro’s parties.</p> | |
| <p>However, Witzel had shown a special sensitivity to the family of Rio City Councilwoman Marielle Franco, who was assassinated in March of 2018. During his election in 2018, Witzel personally apologized to Franco’s family for offensive comments made about the slain Franco by members of his political party. </p> | |
| <p>Yesterday, <a href="https://www.metropoles.com/colunas/paulo-cappelli/marielle-policia-evitou-prender-lessa-em-ano-eleitoral-aponta-witzel">in an interview with Metropole,</a> Witzel accused Rio Civil Police Chief Rivaldo Barbosa of covering it up to help Bolsonaro’s election as President in October of 2018. Barbosa was arrested this week by federal police and accused of planning and covering up the assassination of Franco</p> | |
| <p>During the transition period, Witzel was briefed on the investigation into the assassination of Rio City Councilwoman Marielle Franco. At the time, Barbosa told him that the police already knew, prior to Bolsonaro’s election, who the gunman was, but did not act because they were waiting to catch the people who planned the assassination. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/rio-police-chief-arrested-for-killing-marielle-franco/">With evidence now that Rio Police Chief Barbosa planned the assassination</a>, Witzel accused Barbosa of delaying the initial arrest of the gunman to help Bolsonaro’s election chances. </p> | |
| <p>The gunman, Ronnie Lessa, lived in the same apartment complex as Bolsonaro and socialized with him. The news of his arrest would have hurt Bolsonaro’s presidential run. </p> | |
| <p>The arrest of Lessa was ultimately delayed till March of 2019; helping Bolsonaro to avoid a potentially damaging scandal in the middle of his presidential campaign</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/rio-police-chief-arrested-for-killing-marielle-franco/">Barbosa, who has been arrested this week for covering up the assassination,</a> had been appointed Chief of the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police just a day before the assassination by General Walter Braga Neto, who was overseeing the Rio Civil Police as part of federal intervention. Neto previously served as Defense Minister under Bolsonaro and was Bolsonaro’s vice presidential candidate in the 2022 presidential election. </p> | |
| <p>Currently, Neto is under investigation for helping plot a coup with Bolsonaro and is considered Bolsonaro’s right-hand man.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/rio-police-chief-arrested-for-killing-marielle-franco/">Neto’s appointment of Rivaldo as Civil Police Chief a day before the assassination of Marielle Franco</a> raises serious questions about what role Bolsonaro may have played in the assassination. Witzel implicated Neto for having motive to delay the initial arrests of the gunman. </p> | |
| <p>“Can you imagine if this information is released, if they are arrested on the eve of the election. Marielle’s killer is a resident and neighbor of the candidate. How would the information go at that moment?” <a href="https://www.metropoles.com/colunas/paulo-cappelli/marielle-policia-evitou-prender-lessa-em-ano-eleitoral-aponta-witzel">Witzel told Metropoles.</a> </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.metropoles.com/colunas/paulo-cappelli/marielle-policia-evitou-prender-lessa-em-ano-eleitoral-aponta-witzel">For more, check out the full interview with Metropoles (Portuguese)</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Dead Boeing Whistleblower Documents Released </strong></p> | |
| <p>Over at <em>The American Prospect</em>, Moe Tkacik got a hold of court documents in the case of dead Boeing whistleblower John “Swampy” Barnett. From <em>The American Prospect</em>: </p> | |
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| <p>The bosses hit Swampy with a new initiative called “Multi-Function Process Performer,” through which quality inspectors were directed to outsource 90 percent of their duties to the mechanics they were supposed to be supervising. This was supposed to speed up production and save Boeing millions once it successfully shed the thousands of inspectors it intended to axe. </p> | |
| <p>Swampy believed relying on mechanics to self-inspect their work was not only insane but illegal under the Federal Aviation Administration charter, which explicitly required quality inspectors to document all defects detected, work performed, and parts installed on a commercial airplane in one centralized database. Swampy knew he was caught in a prisoner’s dilemma. If he went along, he was breaking the law; if he didn’t, whistleblowers who complained about unsafe practices were routinely terminated on grounds of violating the same safety protocols they had opposed violating.</p> | |
| <p>Swampy calculated that it would be a bigger pain for Boeing to fire him for doing the right thing than following orders, so he kept his head down and continued managing his inspectors as though he were back in Everett, taking special care to meticulously record every episode of noncompliance (and nonconformance, which is similar but not identical) he encountered. He documented his discovery that machinists installing floor panels had been littering long titanium slivers into wire bundles and electrical boxes between the floorboards and the cargo compartment ceiling panels, where they risked causing an electrical short. A series of mysterious battery fires had already caused the FAA to ground the 787 for a few months just over a year after the first plane had been delivered. He wrote that 75 out of a package of 300 oxygen masks slated for installation on a plane did not actually pump oxygen. His team compiled a list of 300 defects on a fuselage scheduled for delivery, and he discovered that more than 400 nonconforming aircraft parts had gone missing from the defective parts cage and likely been installed on planes illegally and without documentation, by managers and mechanics desperate to get them out the door.</p> | |
| <p>Few quality managers were as stubborn as Swampy. A Seattle Times story detailed an internal Boeing document boasting that the incidence of manufacturing defects on the 787 had plunged 20 percent in a single year, which inspectors anonymously attributed to the “bullying environment” in which defects had systematically “stopped being documented” by inspectors. </p> | |
| <p>They weren’t fooling customers: Qatar Airways had become so disgusted with the state of the planes it received from Charleston that it refused to accept them, and even inspired the Qatar-owned Al Jazeera to produce a withering documentary called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os">Broken Dreams</a>, in which an employee outfitted with a hidden camera chitchatted with mechanics and inspectors about the planes they were producing. “They hire these people off the street, dude … fucking flipping burgers for a living, making sandwiches at Subway,” one mechanic marveled of his colleagues; another regaled the narrator with tales of co-workers who came to work high on “coke and painkillers and weed” because no one had ever had a urine test. Asked if they would fly the 787 Dreamliner; just five of 15 answered yes, and even the positive responses did Boeing no favors: “I probably would, but I have kind of a death wish, too.”</p> | |
| <p>The day after Broken Dreams premiered, Swampy got an email informing him that he’d been put on a 60-day corrective action plan four weeks earlier. His alleged offense constituted using email to communicate about process violations; the HR file noted, fictitiously, that his boss had discussed his “infraction” with him earlier.</p> | |
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| <p><a href="https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/">For more, check out the American Prospect. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Boston University Might Use AI to Replace Striking Graduate Employees</strong></p> | |
| <p>As Boston University graduate employees enter into a strike, the university administration is suggesting that faculty use AI to replace them. </p> | |
| <p>In an email obtained by <em>Daily Beast</em>, the BU Dean of Arts & Sciences Stan Sclaroff suggested that faculty “engage generative AI tools to give feedback or facilitate ‘discussion’ on readings or assignments.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/boston-university-suggests-replacing-striking-grad-students-with-ai">For more, check out the Daily Beast. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Canadian High School Students Walk Out in Saskatchewan in Solidarity with Rotating Strikes </strong></p> | |
| <p>For the first time in 40 years, teachers in Saskatchewan have been involved in a series of rotating province-wide strikes that have caused major headaches for the government. With teachers unable to strike everyday, students are now beginning to walk out to show their solidarity with the teachers. </p> | |
| <p>“None of us are getting the education or the funding we need for things that we want to do, and I find this more important than my education right now,” <a href="https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon-students-walk-out-of-school-to-protest-teacher-contract-stalemate-1.6823667">high school student Danica Epps told the <em>Saskatoon Times</em>. </a>“They need to fund our education.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon-students-walk-out-of-school-to-protest-teacher-contract-stalemate-1.6823667">For more, check out the <em>Saskatoon Times</em>. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Finnish Transport Unions Extend General Strike Another Week </strong></p> | |
| <p>In Finland, the transport unions have extended their nearly month-long general strike by another week. </p> | |
| <p>“The strikes will continue from Monday morning onwards for a week,” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finnish-unions-extend-strikes-over-labour-reforms-by-another-week-2024-03-27/">SAK (Central Organization of Finnish Unions) President Jarkko Eloranta told Reuters.</a> “We are trying to negotiate and compromise with the government but unfortunately there has been no response to these efforts.”</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finnish-unions-extend-strikes-over-labour-reforms-by-another-week-2024-03-27/">For more, check out Reuters. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>A Portrait of 6 Latino Construction Workers Killed in Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse </strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, the Baltimore Banner has a moving portrait of the 6 Latino immigrant construction workers killed in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. From the <em>Baltimore Banner</em>:</p> | |
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| <p>Maynor was like a brother to Hector Suazo, his 34-year-old nephew. Hector, who talked to The Baltimore Banner from Honduras, described Maynor as a pillar of the family who was extroverted and always full of joy. He had an entrepreneurial mind and wanted to open a small business in Owings Mills, where he lived.</p> | |
| <p>He was originally from the small municipality of Azacualpa. The town’s people live mostly in poverty and there aren’t a lot of jobs, Hector said. Many in the community saw migrating to the United States as one of the few ways to secure a better life. Maynor helped his family financially after coming to the U.S., sending $600 to $800 each month enabling the family to run a small hotel.</p> | |
| <p>The family was able to rise from poverty because of him, Hector said.</p> | |
| <p>He also helped care for his twelve nephews and nieces, Hector said. It’s because of Maynor that they were able to go to school rather than work. Maynor made sure they had what they needed, that they had food at their table.</p> | |
| <p>The rest of Maynor’s salary supported him, his wife and two children.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/boston-university-suggests-replacing-striking-grad-students-with-ai"><strong>For more, check out the Baltimore Banner. </strong></a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Alright yinz, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><strong>[email protected]</strong></a><strong> </strong></p> | |
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| <p>From April 17th to 19th, a historic union election will be underway at Volkswagen in Chattanooga. </p> | |
| <p>If the UAW wins in Chattanooga, it will open the door to organizing at non-union auto plants throughout the South. </p> | |
| <p>Currently, a majority of Mercedes workers in Alabama have signed up to join the UAW, and an election is expected soon. Public union drives have been announced at Hyundai in Alabama and Toyota in Missouri. </p> | |
| <p>A win in Chattanooga could inspire other non-union workers to fight for the same kind of benefits that non-union workers won in the historic Stand Up Strike. </p> | |
| <p>The UAW has tried twice to unionize at Chattanooga and failed both in 2014 and 2019. This campaign feels very different. <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Read my analysis of how things changed there over the last decade). </a></p> | |
| <p>I was there and covered both those campaigns in 2014 and 2019. <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/the-battle-for-chattanooga-toxic-masculinity-ableism-anti-union-campaign-at-volkswagen/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Read my 4,000-word analysis of the 2014 defeat entitled “Toxic Masculinity & the Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen.”)</a></p> | |
| <p>In 2016, I used my NLRB settlement from being illegally fired for union organizing at POLITICO and moved to Chattanooga. It was clear that things were beginning to change in the South, and I shared this inspiring story in my coverage of the third union attempt at Volkswagen. </p> | |
| <p>While living in Chattanooga, I tracked and covered the efforts of the minority union to keep the union fight alive there for more than a decade. <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/volkswagen-workers-talk-wildcat-strike-following-narrow-defeat-in-chattanooga-amid-unionbusting/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(See my 2019 story on how the minority union at Volkswagen in Chattanooga continued to fight)</a></p> | |
| <p>Something about this election in 2024 seems very different than those previous union elections. After the massive strike wave that saw over 3,000 strikes since the beginning of the pandemic, workers are mobilizing in new ways, as we saw during the success of the “Stand Up Strike.”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Read my entire 5-page analysis “How Things Changed in Chattanooga” over the past decade of the union fight there)</a></p> | |
| <p>This is a crucial fight to cover, and it could inspire other workers to unionize elsewhere. I would like to hire a crew of local video journalists to tell the story of workers fighting back. </p> | |
| <p>I’m the only national labor reporter who has covered all three union attempts, and I desperately want to be there to cover what could be a historic union victory. Payday Report can provide coverage that no other publication in the country can. </p> | |
| <p>All of this is expensive. It will require paying the video journalists, airfare for me, hotel costs, and food, which is going to be important because we’re going to need it to work. </p> | |
| <p>Payday will need $2,000 to cover this historic union election fully. We must raise all of this money before the union election. </p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate to help us cover this historic union victory. </a></p> | |
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| <title>After the Pandemic and the Stand Up Strike, Everything Changed at Volkswagen in Chattanooga</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pandemic-and-the-stand-up-strike-everything-changed-at-volkswagen-in-chattanooga/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:41:25 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[On a cold, drizzly Valentine’s Day in 2014, I spent the night at a UAW party at the old wood-paneled IBEW hall next to Chattanooga’s...]]></description> | |
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| <p>On a cold, drizzly Valentine’s Day in 2014, I spent the night at a UAW party at the old wood-paneled IBEW hall next to Chattanooga’s brand-new Volkswagen plant as workers eagerly awaited union election results.</p> | |
| <p>One Volkswagen worker passed around a moonshine bottle as nearly 200 people crammed the union hall. The energy was lit as people seemed optimistic that the union would win. </p> | |
| <p>“I am excited,” <a target="_blank" href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/after-uaw-defeat-at-volkswagen-in-tennessee-theories-abound" rel="noreferrer noopener">Volkswagen worker Justin King told me as he was putting on his cowboy boots to get ready for the party.</a></p> | |
| <p>Earlier in the evening, at his house in Orchard Knob, labor, and community organizer Michael Gilliland was nervous. Something seemed off; Chattanooga had been blanketed with unprecedented anti-union TV ads, and support for the union had dissipated quickly in the final days. </p> | |
| <p>The party at the IBEW hall quickly died when the vote was announced as 626 for the union and 712 against. </p> | |
| <p>Instead of drinking that moonshine and celebrating a historic union victory in the South that Valentine’s Day, I sat in a freezing car in Volkswagen’s parking lot with veteran New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, trying to make sense of what went wrong.</p> | |
| <p>In 2019, I again traveled to Chattanooga, hoping the UAW could win there. They had been fighting for five years as a minority union and organizing shop-floor actions, winning some changes for workers. I hoped that maybe this time, I would get to attend a raucous victory party of UAW workers. </p> | |
| <p>However, Michael Gilliland was pessimistic. The corruption scandal around the UAW was growing, and the anti-union forces in town once again blanketed the city with hundreds of thousands of dollars in anti-union ads. </p> | |
| <p>Sadly, once again, he was right, as the union lost by<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/volkswagen-workers-talk-wildcat-strike-following-narrow-defeat-in-chattanooga-amid-unionbusting/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> a margin of 776-833. </a></p> | |
| <p>Now, for the first time in decades, I have seen Gilliland, who heads the community labor organization CALEB (Chattanooga in Action for Love, Equality, and Benevolence), optimistic about the chances of the UAW winning at Volkswagen. </p> | |
| <p>After the pandemic and the ensuing strike wave, which saw more than 3,000 strikes since 2020, and the success of the Stand Up Strike, Gilliland feels that the atmosphere has completely changed in the community. </p> | |
| <p>“I think that there’s an energy that most likely comes from the momentum that was created last year, with the Big Three win being so recently victorious, and to be able to show those comparisons of bargaining with the Big Three,” says Gilliand. “lt creates a lot of opportunity to think about what those changes might look like in concrete terms for workers on the line.” </p> | |
| <p>In 2014, when the UAW first tried for an election, anti-union forces put recent concessions by the UAW as evidence that Volkswagen had little to unionize for. </p> | |
| <p>As part of the auto bailout in 2009, new hires under UAW contracts at GM made $16.50 an hour. During the 2014 UAW election, new non-union assembly line workers at Volkswagen started at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.labornotes.org/2013/10/auto-workers-try-new-angle-volkswagen" rel="noreferrer noopener">$14.50 an hour</a>, which, with cost-of-living differences between Tennessee and the Midwest factored in, is arguably slightly higher. </p> | |
| <p>“What the UAW is offering, we can already do without them,” anti-union Volkswagen worker Mike Burton, <a target="_blank" href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/after-uaw-defeat-at-volkswagen-in-tennessee-theories-abound" rel="noreferrer noopener">who created the website for the “No 2 UAW” campaign, told me in 2014. </a></p> | |
| <p>The union ultimately lost that vote in 2014 by a narrow margin of only 626 for the union to 712 against. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/02/17/organized-labors-future-in-the-south/sweetheart-deals-hurt-labor" rel="noreferrer noopener">As I wrote for the New York Times at the time</a>, “Many Chattanooga workers had trouble seeing the upside of joining the U.A.W.” </p> | |
| <p>(Read my full 4,000-word long form on that defeat,<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/the-battle-for-chattanooga-southern-masculinity-the-anti-union-campaign-at-volkswagen/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> “The Battle for Chattanooga: Southern Masculinity & The Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen.”</a>)</p> | |
| <p><strong>Federal Government Intervention & Rank-and-File Revolt Depose UAW Leadership </strong></p> | |
| <p>In 2019, when the UAW tried for a union election again, the UAW felt much more optimistic. However, at the time, the UAW was accused in the press of corruption charges as several senior UAW officials had already pled guilty to accepting bribes from their employers. </p> | |
| <p>Hammered with captive audience anti-union meetings and hundreds of thousands of dollars in TV ads highlighting the union’s corruption, the union once again lost by a margin of 776 for the union to 833 against. </p> | |
| <p>“There was actually a corruption scandal with UAW, “says 34-year-old Volkswagen worker Zach Costello. “All you would hear about is corruption, corruption, corruption.” </p> | |
| <p>A few months after the election, several of its top leaders, including UAW President Gary Jones, were arrested for accepting bribes from employers, validating the distrust many Volkswagen workers had of the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>The federal government would eventually intervene and force the UAW to accept a consent decree that opened space for union reformers.</p> | |
| <p>As part of the consent decree, the UAW was forced to hold a referendum on whether rank-and-file members should be allowed to vote directly for the UAW’s president or elect a president through a complex and opaque system of delegates, which the UAW had used for 80 years.</p> | |
| <p>UAW members voted overwhelmingly to have their president directly elected by referendum. In 2023, reformer Shawn Fain was elected president, defeating incumbent Ray Curry, the first time an incumbent president had been defeated in the history of the UAW. </p> | |
| <p>Fain immediately moved to take the union on a more militant footing. In September of 2023, Fain led his union in a series of escalating strikes against factories owned by all of the Big Three, the first time in the history of the UAW that the union had struck at all three automakers simultaneously. </p> | |
| <p>The union won impressive wage gains of at least 25% at all three big employers. The union then decided to use that momentum to launch an ambitious $40 million organizing effort at non-union auto manufacturers in the U.S. South. </p> | |
| <p>Non-union employers responded frantically, with Volkswagen offering workers an 11% wage increase this year in the hopes of fighting off a union drive there. It wasn’t enough to dissuade workers. </p> | |
| <p><strong>A National Campaign Instead of Isolated Battles </strong></p> | |
| <p>The UAW launched a nationwide organizing effort. In addition to filing for a union election at Volkswagen, the UAW has announced that a majority of workers at Mercedes in Alabama have signed up to join the union. Public union campaigns have also been launched at Hyundai in Montgomery, Alabama, and Toyota in Troy, Missouri. </p> | |
| <p>If workers win in Chattanooga, it will likely give momentum to those other union campaigns, creating unprecedented momentum for union organizing in the anti-union South. </p> | |
| <p>Unlike previous union campaigns, where Volkswagen union organizers felt isolated, now they feel like they are part of a nationwide campaign. </p> | |
| <p>“It’s happening all along the country, and especially here in the South that the fact that that investment, time organizing energy is being immediately translated towards major organizing efforts all across the South, I think gives an opportunity for organizing committees to build off of each other,” says Michael Gilliland. </p> | |
| <p>Volkswagen’s union effort is happening after the pandemic.<a target="_blank" href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/175556/americans-approve-unions-support-right-work.aspx" rel="noreferrer noopener"> According to Gallup, in 2014, only 53% of Americans said they had positive views of unions. </a></p> | |
| <p>During the pandemic, the popularity of unions skyrocketed, as workers went on <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/payday-interactive-strike-tracker/" rel="noreferrer noopener">more than 3,000 strikes since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Payday Report’s Strike Tracker. </a></p> | |
| <p>Following the pandemic, <a target="_blank" href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/12751/labor-unions.aspx" rel="noreferrer noopener">union popularity is at a near-record high, with 67% of Americans approving of unions, according to Gallup. </a></p> | |
| <p>“You have strike after strike happening around the country. You had the writers, the actors, and then UAW followed up,” says Volkswagen worker Zach Costello speaking of the “Summer of Strikes” last year. “And then you had the big contract they got. That, like, sparked an insane amount of discussion around unions all around the plant.” </p> | |
| <p>Volkswagen workers, who went through three different union attempts at the plant, say they see a very different mentality this time, particularly among young people, who were less enthusiastic about unions in previous elections. </p> | |
| <p>“There are a lot of young workers in the plant now and this generation wants respect,” says veteran Volkswagen worker Steve Cochran. “They’re not okay with mistreatment by management. They see what’s happening at Starbucks and Amazon”. </p> | |
| <p>Workers of color at the plant also say that they feel more empowered than in previous union campaigns at the plant.</p> | |
| <p> “Momentum this time is way better than the first two times we’ve tried to unionize,”<a target="_blank" href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/05/1228933397/union-membership-black-and-latina-women-2023" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Volkswagen worker Yolanda Peoples told NPR</a>. “Among African American women, there has been a boost as far as getting it organized this time. I see a big change.”</p> | |
| <p>Peoples credited the UAW putting forward African-American women as spokespeople during the “Stand Up Strike” in playing a role in this. </p> | |
| <p>“I believe that watching the Big Three is one of the things that changed their minds,” Peoples told NPR. “And actually seeing more African American women standing up with the UAW too has been a changing factor.”</p> | |
| <p><strong>Biden’s EPA Rules Help Union Drive</strong></p> | |
| <p>In past anti-union campaigns, union busters warned that the plant could close if people voted for the union. However, Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant expanded in July of 2022, adding a brand new assembly line for the production of the Volkswagen ID.4. </p> | |
| <p>“We are growing, and a lot more people can smell the BS now when they say that,” says Volkswagen worker Zach Costello. </p> | |
| <p>Indeed, <a target="_blank" href="https://prospect.org/environment/2024-03-22-new-epa-clean-car-rule-transform-unions/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dave Dayen at <em>The American Prospect</em> has argued that Biden’s new EPA emission rules force employers to produce more electric cars</a>, making it extremely unlikely that Volkswagen would close the plant. </p> | |
| <p>“There’s no way they can shut that factory down,” <a target="_blank" href="https://prospect.org/environment/2024-03-22-new-epa-clean-car-rule-transform-unions/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Corey Cantor, Senior Associate for electric vehicles at BloombergNEF, told Dayen. </a></p> | |
| <p>The tide has changed for the UAW at Volkswagen at Chattanooga, and Michael Gilliland, for the first time in a decade, seems optimistic. </p> | |
| <p>“I think there are plenty of people that see what’s happening, as you know, carrying our hopes for the city in their hands that every worker at Volkswagen can create a new standard of living wages,” says Gilliland. “So, I think we really recognize how important it is not just as a regional fight, not just as a national fight, or a fight for a union. But like what this might mean for workers and working-class people in the local economy”. </p> | |
| <p>Hopefully, this year, I’ll get to cover a victory party at the old union hall in Chattanooga after a decade of waiting and hoping for a union breakthrough in the South. </p> | |
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| <title>UAW Election at VW in Chattanooga Set for April 17th – Mercedes Workers File Unfair Labor Charge – Cillian Murphy to Star in Miners for Democracy Biopic</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/uaw-election-at-vw-in-chattanooga-set-for-april-17th-mercedes-workers-file-unfair-labor-charge-cillian-murphy-to-star-in-miners-for-democracy-biopic/</link> | |
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| <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:06:53 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where Bolsonaro may be under house arrest very soon. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Bolsonaro May Be Forced Into House Arrest </strong></p> | |
| <p>Yesterday, the New York Times revealed that Bolsonaro stayed at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia for two days in a bid to seek asylum.</p> | |
| <p>Under the terms of legal order that took away Bolsonaro’s passport in February as part of an investigation into his attempt to order a coup, the former Brazilian president was not allowed to leave the country. By staying for two nights at the Hungarian embassy, Bolsonaro technically left the country. </p> | |
| <p>Now, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexander de Moraes is giving Bolsonaro 48 hours to explain why he was at the Hungarian embassy. If de Moraes is unsatisfied with Bolsonaro’s answer, he could order Bolsonaro into house arrest or force him to wear an electronic ankle monitor. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Jair-Bolsonaro-Must-Explain-His-Stay-at-the-Hungarian-Embassy-20240326-0007.html">For more, check out Telesur English. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Volkswagen Union Election Set for April 17-19th </strong></p> | |
| <p>I am getting ready to head back to the United States on April 10th to go down to Chattanooga to cover the union election. (Big thanks to our readers for helping me afford to change my ticket back). </p> | |
| <p>Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board announced that Volskwagen would hold a union election for 4,300 workers on April 17-19th. Payday is hoping to hire a camera operator to help us film in Chattanooga. </p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate">Donate to help us cover this historic union election</a>. Please, if you can, <a href="http://www.paydayreport.com/donate">sign up as one of our 774 recurring donors today. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Mercedes Workers File Federal Charges Against Mercedes </strong></p> | |
| <p>Last month, Mercedes workers in Vance, Alabama announced that a majority of workers at the plant had signed union cards and expect to file for a union election soon. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://paydayreport.com/podcast-payday-report-after-25-years-mercedes-workers-say-union-could-come-any-day-now/"><em>(See our story “After 25 Years, Mercedes Workers Say Union Could Come “Any Day Now”)</em></a> Today, Mercedes workers announced that they have filed federal unfair labor practice charges against Mercedes. </p> | |
| <p>One pro-union Mercedes worker, Al Ezell, who has stage 4 lung cancer, was given permission by management to have his cellphone on the floor to attend to medical phone calls. However, earlier this month, he was disciplined for it despite having permission. </p> | |
| <p>“Management called me into the office to discipline me for having my phone on the floor. My manager looked me in the face and told me she didn’t care that I have cancer or that I had permission, she was going to enforce the company’s zero tolerance policy,” said Ezell. “We’ve never had a zero-tolerance policy for having a phone on the floor. Management is just trying to scare us, but we won’t back down.” </p> | |
| <p>Workers also say that they are being interrogated for voicing pro-union sentiments in anti-union captive meetings. </p> | |
| <p>“During the meeting, I told management that it was suspicious that I was being called into the office on the same day that I spoke up in an anti-union meeting,” said Taylor Snipes. “My manager said the two had nothing to do with one another, but then proceeded to aggressively interrogate me about why I support having a union.” </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://uaw.org/alabama-workers-file-federal-charges-against-mercedes-benz-request-government-injunction-to-end-companys-illegal-union-busting/?fbclid=IwAR1LpH29qvPPCX70ymBzXFI-JitFFdmuDAaSSi2YBBVelK_LOhJoyIkmyaA_aem_AagpWsNG4-tFPNLeki5XgjaCPhM0UmlmXRqJ56-KNntDVQ--BoYZCjb6jwKXXp92xCCtk6fIH7nmcxrgmqEXrg3P">For more, check out the UAW’s website. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>IATSE Continues to Make Progress at the Bargaining Table </strong></p> | |
| <p>On July 31st, IATSE’s contract is set to expire. With workers mobilized from last summer’s strikes and the studios still reeling from the economic effects, IATSE says that they are pleased to see the studio association (AMPTP) making progress at the bargaining table. </p> | |
| <p>Now, IATSE locals 600, 729, and 800 announced that they reached a tentative agreement on local “craft-specific” issues related to workplace conditions. The union still has to bargain a national contract on wages and hourly issues, but the union said the progress on the local issues is a positive sign. </p> | |
| <p>“I commend the Negotiating Committees of Locals 600, 729 and 800 for their work,” <a href="https://iatse.net/hollywood-basic-local-negotiations-update-locals-600-729-and-800-reach-tentative-agreements-with-amptp/">said IATSE Vice President Mike Miller in a statement</a>. “The fact that tentative agreements were reached shows that the multi-faceted preparation work done by all our West Coast Studio Locals going into these talks is paying dividends.”</p> | |
| <p><strong>Cillian Murphy to Make Movie on Assassination of Miners for Democracy Leader</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, Cillian Murphy, who won the Oscar for Best Actor for portraying Robert Opennheimer in the film Oppenheimer, has signed to star in an adaptation of the book <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/blood-runs-coal/">“Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America.”</a> </p> | |
| <p>The film depicts the 1969 murder of Miners for Democracy leader Jock Yablonski at the hands of corrupt Mineworkers Union leader Tony Boyle. </p> | |
| <p>Murphy would play Yablonski’s son Chip. A labor lawyer, Chip Yabolinski fought to have both of his parent’s murders prosecuted, and also to have the federal government overturn the election. </p> | |
| <p><a href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/cillian-murphy-universal-blood-runs-coal-oscar-oppenheimer-mark-bradley-book-1235867900/">For more, check out Deadline.</a></p> | |
| <p><strong>News & Strikes Happening Elsewhere </strong></p> | |
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| <li><a href="https://www.kuow.org/stories/is-the-change-signaled-by-boeing-s-leadership-shakeup-what-the-company-actually-needs">Boeing’s unions want more of a seat at the table</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/boeing-punished-unionized-pilots-with-layoff-nlrb-judge-rules">Boeing punished unionized pilots with layoff, NLRB judge Rules</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/daly-city-hospital-strike/3491205/">Over 400 Daly City hospital workers go on strike</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.thestand.org/2024/03/seattle-unions-fight-to-save-gig-workers-wage-ordinance/">Seattle unions fight to save gig workers’ wage ordinance</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://workdaymagazine.org/the-chicago-teachers-union-wants-to-end-student-homelessness-at-the-bargaining-table/"> Chicago Teachers Union wants to end student homelessness at the bargaining table</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240326050813">Seoul’s bus union votes to strike over wage</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240325">Finally, US Department Of Labor requires Tennessee parts manufacturer To turn over profits from oppressive child labor use, compensate victims</a></li> | |
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| <p><strong>Alright yinz, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments and complaints to </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><strong>[email protected]</strong></a><strong> </strong></p> | |
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| <p><strong>Love & Solidarity, </strong></p> | |
| <p><strong>Melk</strong></p> | |
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| <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:23:55 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>The New York Times reports that Bolsonaro sought asylum in the Hungarian embassy earlier this month. He traveled there after his passport was confiscated by the federal government after several of his top aides were indicted for plotting a coup. </p> | |
| <p> Bolsonaro slept in the Hungarian embassy for two days while rumors swirled that Bolsonaro would be arrested. </p> | |
| <p>Last week,<a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/bolsonaro-indicted-revolt-in-major-league-baseball-player-union-saskatchewan-teachers-threatens-basketball-championship/" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Bolsonaro was indicted for falsifying his COVID-19 vaccine card, a federal crime in Brazil.</a></p> | |
| <p>In early February, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/world/americas/jair-bolsonaro-hungary-video.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bolsonaro’s top aides and staff were also arrested after the Brazilian Supreme Court revealed that they attempted to plot a coup. </a></p> | |
| <p>Questions also surround whether or not Bolsonaro was involved in the assassination of Marielle Franco. <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/bolsonaro-forced-to-turn-over-passport-as-top-aides-arrested-over-coup-plot/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Yesterday, the Rio Police Chief Rivalado and two close political allies of Bolsonaro were arrested for plotting to kill her. </a></p> | |
| <p>Many in Brazil wonder why Bolsonaro failed to investigate the case at a federal level, given the roadblocks at the local level. </p> | |
| <p>Rivaldo’s arrest raised additional questions about the role that Bolsonaro and his allies had played in the assassination of Marielle Franco. </p> | |
| <p>He had been appointed Chief of the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police just a day before the assassination by General Walter Braga Neto, who was overseeing the Rio Civil Police as part of federal intervention. Neto previously served as Defense Minister under Bolsonaro and was Bolsonaro’s vice presidential candidate in the 2022 presidential election. </p> | |
| <p>Currently, Neto is under investigation for helping plot a coup with Bolsonaro and is considered Bolsonaro’s right-hand man.</p> | |
| <p>Neto’s appointment of Rivaldo as Civil Police Chief a day before the assassination of Marielle Franco raises serious questions about what role Bolsonaro may have played in the assassination. </p> | |
| <p>Bolsonaro and the gunman Lessa were known to socialize together – they lived in the same apartment complex, and their children had even dated. Several family members of people involved in the conspiracy were also employed by Bolsonaro’s son, Rio City Councilman Carlos Bolsonaro. </p> | |
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| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:19:42 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL – At 5 A.M. on Palm Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio state auditor general Domingos Brazão, were all arrested by Brazilian federal police for plotting to assassinate Rio City Councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes in 2018. </p> | |
| <p>Just days after the murder, Barbosa <a target="_blank" href="https://extra.globo.com/casos-de-policia/nos-estamos-no-caminho-certo-diz-rivaldo-barbosa-sobre-investigacao-da-morte-de-marielle-22599537.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">told reporters</a>, “We will not rest while this crime is not solved,” but now Barbosa stands accused of being one of the murderers himself. </p> | |
| <p>The head of Rio’s homicide investigation unit, Giniton Lages, was also forced into house arrest after it was revealed that he was accused of illegally obstructing investigations into the assassination of Marielle Franco. </p> | |
| <p>Lages wrote a best-selling book on his investigation into Marielle Franco’s assassination. In high-profile interviews, Lages had previously sought to portray himself as determined to seek the truth about who killed Marielle. </p> | |
| <p>The news of the arrests sent shockwaves through Rio de Janeiro on one of the year’s holiest days, Palm Sunday. The arrests came after Brazil’s Minister of Justice announced this week that the gunman Ronnie Lessa was cooperating with authorities and they had accepted a plea deal. </p> | |
| <p>As news of the arrests was made public, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino, the longtime Communist party leader whom Lula had previously tapped to take over the investigation as Justice Minister when he took office in 2022, tweeted a line from Psalm 92.</p> | |
| <p>“Though the wicked flourish like the grass, and the workers of wickedness flourish, they are destined for eternal loss,” <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/FlavioDino/status/1771841227098394822" rel="noreferrer noopener">tweeted Dino.</a> “Like a palm tree, the righteous will flourish, they will rise like a cedar of Lebanon.”</p> | |
| <p>In 2019, two former Brazilian military policemen, Ronnie Lessa and Élcio Vieira de Queiroz, were arrested for killing Rio City Councilwoman Marielle Franco. </p> | |
| <p>However, for over five years, activists have found themselves frustrated in seeking answers to who ordered the assassination of Marielle Franco. Activists even took to wearing t-shirts and holding signs with the simple question, “Quem Mandou Matar Marielle” (Who Sent Them to Kill Marielle). </p> | |
| <p>Now, with the arrest of Rio de Janeiro’s ex-Chief of Police Rivaldo Barbosa and the head of the homicide department Ginito Lages, it became clear why activists were unable to get these answers until Lula took over the investigation at the federal level following his election in 2022. </p> | |
| <p>“The Civil Police were not only flawed but complicit in this crime,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C45ovq0ryvE/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Marielle’s widow, Rio City Councilwoman Mônica Benício, wrote on Instagram. </a></p> | |
| <p>Three weeks before Marielle Franco was assassinated, she had been appointed to head a Rio de Janeiro city commission investigating the 2018 military takeover of the Rio de Janeiro police. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.france24.com/en/20180224-military-takeover-rio-police-stirs-dictatorship-ghosts" rel="noreferrer noopener">During the 2018 military takeover of the Rio civilian police</a>, military police officers replaced civilian police chiefs, and 8,500 army soldiers were deployed to battle drug gangs in Rio, resulting in a 40% increase in killings by the police. </p> | |
| <p>As part of the military takeover, 8,500 army soldiers were deployed to streets in Rio de Janeiro, resulting in a 40% increase in police killings. A record 1,500 people were killed by the police in Rio de Janeiro in 2018, the year that the military was in charge of Rio.</p> | |
| <p>As part of the takeover, General Braga Neto, Bolsonaro’s right-hand man, appointed Rivaldo head of the civil police in Rio de Janeiro. </p> | |
| <p>The military and civil police were accused by Marielle Franco of working closely with paramilitary gangs. Paramilitary gangs run by former police officers run protection rackets, own large apartment buildings, and often engage in drug dealing themselves.</p> | |
| <p>The Brazão brothers, who were closely linked to paramilitary gangs in Rio de Janeiro, had long been suspected of murdering Marielle Franco. As a Rio City Councilwoman, Franco had been investigating how Brazáo, who earned the nickname “King of Jacarepagua,” used his ties to paramilitary gangs to increase his political influence and grow his business as a major developer in Jacarepagua, a large suburb of Rio. </p> | |
| <p>However, Mônica Benício said she was shocked to learn that Rivaldo Barbosa, the former Police Chief of Rio de Janeiro, had conspired to kill Marielle Franco. She said that Barbosa had met with the day after Marielle’s assassination and pledged that he would catch Marielle’s killer. </p> | |
| <p>“Rivaldo, who received our families shortly after Marielle and Anderson were murdered, with the cynical smile that only the most corrupt of bureaucracies can produce, telling us that the case would be a top priority to be resolved as quickly as possible,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C45ovq0ryvE/" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote Benício on Instagram.</a> “His name involved in this brutal execution only demonstrates the size of the abyss we live in in the State of Rio de Janeiro, with institutions widely compromised in the most rotten webs of crime, corruption and the death market.” </p> | |
| <p>Rivaldo’s arrest raised additional questions about the role that Bolsonaro and his allies had played in the assassination of Marielle Franco. </p> | |
| <p>He had been appointed Chief of the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police just a day before the assassination by General Walter Braga Neto, who was overseeing the Rio Civil Police as part of federal intervention. Neto previously served as Defense Minister under Bolsonaro and was Bolsonaro’s vice presidential candidate in the 2022 presidential election. </p> | |
| <p>Currently, Neto is under investigation for helping plot a coup with Bolsonaro and is considered Bolsonaro’s right-hand man.</p> | |
| <p>Neto’s appointment of Rivaldo as Civil Police Chief a day before the assassination of Marielle Franco raises serious questions about what role Bolsonaro may have played in the assassination. </p> | |
| <p>Bolsonaro and the gunman Lessa were known to socialize together – they lived in the same apartment complex, and their children had even dated. Several family members of people involved in the conspiracy were also employed by Bolsonaro’s son, Rio City Councilman Carlos Bolsonaro. </p> | |
| <p>Mônica Benício and Agatha Arnaus, the widow of Marielle’s slain driver, Anderson Gomes, said in a joint statement that while they were glad that the Brazão brothers and Rivaldo had been arrested, there was still much that needed to be investigated about the assassination. </p> | |
| <p>“There is a fight ahead, and we will be stronger and stronger to face it,” the widows said in a joint statement released today on Palm Sunday in Rio de Janeiro. Today, democracy wins. Today, Marielle and Anderson begin to have justice for their lives taken. We will not rest until justice is fully served—for Marielle and Anderson, for our families, for Brazil’s democracy.”</p> | |
| <p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuiKrtAoDl8">(Watch our full interview with Mônica Benício from earlier this month)</a></em></p> | |
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| <title>PA AFL-CIO Endorses Summer Lee for the 1st Time – MLB Players Union Democracy Fight Intensifies – World Down Syndrome Day </title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/pa-afl-cio-endorses-summer-lee-for-the-1st-time-mlb-players-union-democracy-fight-intensifies-world-down-syndrome-day/</link> | |
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| <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:22:47 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <description><![CDATA[Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where the right-wing Bolsonaro-style state governor has banned two Brazilian legends from playing in Brasil’s largest stadium.  Bolsonaro Ally Bans...]]></description> | |
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| <p>Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where the right-wing Bolsonaro-style state governor has banned two Brazilian legends from playing in Brasil’s largest stadium. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Bolsonaro Ally Bans Brazilian Anti-Dictatorship Legends from Performing in Maracanã</strong></p> | |
| <p>In 1969, the Grammy-winning Caetano Veloso, one of the founders of the <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic%C3%A1lia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tropicalismo</a> musical movement, was arrested and imprisoned for several months by the Brazilian military dictatorship. Eventually, he was forced into exile and lived for several years abroad. </p> | |
| <p>Once again, the 81-year-old Veloso and his sister, the famed singer Maria Bethânia, are being blocked from playing a high-profile show at Brazil’s largest stadium.</p> | |
| <p>This week, tickets went on sale. Quickly, the show sold out online within 30 minutes at a music venue in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood of Rio. </p> | |
| <p>Initially, the group wanted to play at the 80,000-seat Maracanã, the largest stadium in Brazil.</p> | |
| <p>However, the stadium is operated by the state of Rio de Janeiro, whose governor is the right-wing Bolsonaro ally, Claudio Castro. He vetoed the idea of letting them play there, claiming that it could hurt the field conditions needed to play soccer at the stadium. </p> | |
| <p>Veloso’s wife Paula Lavigne publicly posted a link to a news story from <em>O Globo</em> that said that Casto denied them a permit because of Veloso’s constant critiques of Bolsonaro and Veloso. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://rollingstone.uol.com.br/musica/show-de-caetano-e-bethania-teria-sido-barrado-no-maracana-por-governador/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Rolling Stone. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>PA AFL-CIO Endorses Summer Lee for the 1st Time</strong></p> | |
| <p>Since her first election to the State House in 2018, Summer Lee has never once won the endorsement of the PA AFL-CIO. <a target="_blank" href="https://prospect.org/politics/summer-lees-organizing-model-has-upended-pittsburgh/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Some affiliate unions have long opposed Lee due to her opposition to fracking and calls for crackdowns on pollution. </a></p> | |
| <p>In 2020, in her re-election for State Representative, Summer Lee <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2020-08-05/state-afl-cio-snubs-lee-in-election-endorsement" rel="noreferrer noopener">was the only incumbent Democrat in the state legislature whom the PA AFL-CIO did not endorse</a>. </p> | |
| <p>In 2022, the PA AFL-CIO, under the leadership of Frank Synder, declined to endorse her in her run for an open Congressional seat <a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/irwins-law-firm-fought-against-college-athletes-unionizing-crazy-mocha-workers-organizing-%EF%BF%BC/" rel="noreferrer noopener">even though her opponent headed a legal division that did anti-union work. </a></p> | |
| <p>Now, with the PA AFL-CIO under the leadership of its first-ever woman President, Angela Ferritto, the PA AFL-CIO has endorsed Lee. </p> | |
| <p>“Summer Lee has been fighting for the rights of workers since she was first elected to Congress in 2022. Summer cares about unions and issues that matter to our members,” said Angela Ferritto in a press release. “The PA AFL-CIO is proud to support Summer Lee because we know she will advocate on behalf of our members.”</p> | |
| <p>Many unions, which had not previously endorsed Lee in other races, have also warmed to her because of her active role as a first-term Congresswoman on picket lines. </p> | |
| <p>“The first time Summer ran for public office, in 2018 in the 34th legislative district, UE could see that she was the kind of progressive political leader we’ve been looking for, and we endorsed her,” said long-time Lee backer Al Hart, the retired editor of the <em>UE News</em>. “I’m very glad to see that the Pennsylvania labor movement recognizes what an extraordinary fighter for working people she is, and has thrown its support behind her”</p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzb4BV-lV8I" rel="noreferrer noopener">Check out Summer Lee’s first television ad, which features her role in supporting UE’s strike at Wabtec last summer. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>MLB Player’s Union Democracy Fight Intensifies </strong></p> | |
| <p>Over the past week, members of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) have been in an intense fight to change their union’s leadership.</p> | |
| <p>Initially, a majority of players’ union representatives wanted MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark to change its deputy director, 62-year-old Bruce Meyer, and replace him with 33-year-old Harry Marino, who led efforts to unionize minor leaguers. </p> | |
| <p>However, after Tony Clark refused to listen to a majority of union members, many began organizing to replace Clark. ESPN’s Jeff Passan has the story: </p> | |
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| <p>“Near the end of the call, the matter had been put to an informal poll, and a significant majority of the dozens of players in attendance raised their hands in favor of change. Faced with his hand-picked No. 2 receiving a no-confidence vote from a large portion of the union’s executive board, MLBPA executive director Tony Clark told the group that it was his decision whether Meyer would be removed from his job.</p> | |
| <p>He was not wrong. Union rules grant Clark, not the players, the right to hire and fire. But the sentiment espoused by Clark at that moment roiled players throughout the game Tuesday and Wednesday, enveloping the union with the sort of palace intrigue typically reserved for a Sunday night HBO series. The veteran was among a large swath of players troubled by Clark’s comment after hearing him say consistently, over more than a decade running the MLBPA, that players run the union. The fallout cast questions across the rank and file not just about Meyer’s murky future but Clark’s long-term viability as executive director.</p> | |
| <p>The call ended with no clarity on the future of union leadership. Backers of Clark have since rallied around him, attempting to whip support from players for what they believe will be a showdown for control of the MLBPA. While Clark could remain in charge of the union he has guided for more than a decade, the power play has damaged him considerably — and player leadership does wield the power to unilaterally vote him out of the position. If they do, Marino, the 33-year-old who blindsided the baseball establishment with a daring power play, could find himself not as Clark’s deputy but in the top role himself, though he’ll have to work to sway player leaders who were left in the dark about the move and know little about him.</p> | |
| <p>Interviews with more than two dozen people involved in the fight — union officials, the outsiders seeking to unseat them, players on the union’s executive board and throughout the league, and influence-wielding agents — offered a portrait of a union in flux amid an offseason of lower-than-expected spending on free agents.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39775220/mlbpa-union-coup-tony-clark-harry-marino" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out ESPN’s Jeff Passan’s long-form on the union democracy fight within the MLBPA. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Georgia Bans Subsidies for Companies that Voluntarily Recognize Unions </strong></p> | |
| <p>Today, Georgia voted to ban tax subsidies for companies that voluntarily recognize unions. </p> | |
| <p>The legislation could affect major employers in the state, like UPS, Ford, and Microsoft, that have nationwide voluntary union recognition agreements. It would force unions and the federal government to go through costly National Labor Relations Board elections instead of an employer simply recognizing the union. </p> | |
| <p>Right-wing groups like <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-labor-unions-economic-incentives-9a28191ab8174588b0809c290c0a1279" rel="noreferrer noopener">the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are pushing states nationwide to adopt legislation that would make union organizing more cumbersome. </a>The statute will likely be legally tested as it would allow states to preempt federal law, in violation of the Constitution. </p> | |
| <p>“If the ALEC statute survives preemption review, states will be free to experiment with a whole host of ways to better enable workers to form and join unions,” <a target="_blank" href="https://onlabor.org/hey-alec-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote Benjamin Sachs on the blog On Labor</a>. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://onlabor.org/hey-alec-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out On Labor. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>On World Down Syndrome Day, Recognizing the Importance of Employment Integration</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, on World Down Syndrome Day, Pittsburgh <em>Public Source</em> has a moving story of integrating a man with Down Syndrome into the workforce at a local Giant Eagle grocery store. From <em>Public Source</em>: </p> | |
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| <p>“My brother Tommy bags groceries for Giant Eagle customers. </p> | |
| <p>I drop him off on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays for his four-hour shifts at the store in McIntyre Square in the North Hills. </p> | |
| <p>Sometimes I watch him before heading out: He stands at the end of a checkout counter and scoops up items from the conveyor belt, quickly and efficiently bagging them to keep the line moving. A job coach hovers in the background, stepping in when he needs guidance. I can see that he’s learned to bag raw meat separately to avoid cross-contamination, and he intuitively knows when to move to a counter with a longer checkout line. </p> | |
| <p>Tommy has found purpose and joy in employment. He moonwalks between checkout counters, integrating his love of dance into the work. Customers know him by name and thank him as they leave the store. He’s thriving and I’m so proud of him. </p> | |
| <p>But we’ve traveled a long, difficult road to get here: Tommy is 30 years old and this role at Giant Eagle is his first job.”</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-disabilities-employment-tommy-giant-eagle-down-syndrome/" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out Public Source. </a></p> | |
| <p>Strikes & News Happening Elsewhere </p> | |
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| <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/conde-nast-layoffs-union-members-protest-alleged-additional-cuts-1235856703/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Conde Nast sues its union </a></li> | |
| <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2024/03/how-flint-teachers-organized-a-sick-out-to-address-the-teacher-pay-crisis.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Flint teachers organized a sick-out to address the teacher pay crisis</a></li> | |
| <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ei-ie.org/en/item/28414:palestine-teachers-stand-by-their-students-amid-war-and-destruction" rel="noreferrer noopener">Palestinian teachers stand by their students amid war and destruction</a></li> | |
| <li><a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/kenya-doctors-strike-hospital-emergency-services-cb939eda98a39219ab66ccf138aee8e8" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Kenyan doctors stop providing emergency services at public hospitals as strike enters second week</a></li> | |
| <li><a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-doctors-strike-suspensions-efbdddae9c6a4ddee19f4ba294202db3" rel="noreferrer noopener">South Korea will suspend the licenses of striking junior doctors starting next week</a></li> | |
| <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/finland-strike" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finnish port strike enters its 3rd week</a></li> | |
| <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/CWAUnion/status/1770428216701825308" rel="noreferrer noopener">6th Wells Fargo branch unionizes in Florida</a></li> | |
| <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39761452/dartmouth-says-bargain-basketball-players-union" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dartmouth says it won’t bargain with basketball players’ union</a></li> | |
| <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/ueunion/posts/pfbid0a6uuXoQonudDWW9dEyzwqNDKfdwXxkbpVdmBhqJMc8rQ2mSq2zdMapoeqQNjauRtl" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finally, a big happy 87th birthday to the United Electrical Workers (UE) </a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Alright, yinz, that’s all for today. Keep sending tips, story ideas, comments, and complaints to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </p> | |
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| <title>Bolsonaro Indicted – Revolt in Major League Baseball Players Union – Saskatchewan Teachers Strike Threatens Basketball Championship</title> | |
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| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 03:49:33 +0000</pubDate> | |
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| <p>Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been indicted. </p> | |
| <p><strong>Bolsonaro Indicted for Falsifying COVID Vaccine Records </strong></p> | |
| <p>Earlier today, the Brazilian federal police announced that they were indicting former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for falsifying vaccine records for himself and his daughter Laura. The false vaccine cards were then used to travel to the United States. </p> | |
| <p>The evidence was obtained as part of a plea deal caught by Bolsonaro’s military aide, Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid. </p> | |
| <p>Earlier this year, Cid was indicted for a scheme to sell Rolex watches gifted to Bolsonaro by foreign leaders and distribute the money to the Bolsonaro family in violation of federal law. To avoid prosecution, Cid revealed to authorities that Bolsonaro had ordered him to falsify his vaccine record to enter the United States. </p> | |
| <p>Bolsonaro denied being involved in any plan to falsify records but proudly stated that he had not received the COVID-19 Vaccine. </p> | |
| <p>“It’s a selective investigation. I’m calm. The world knows that I didn’t take the vaccine,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-indicted-suspected-fraud-vaccine-records-2024-03-19/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bolsonaro told Reuters today.</a> </p> | |
| <p>In addition to being indicted for falsifying vaccine records, Bolsonaro is also being charged with leading a criminal conspiracy to cover up the crime. Bolsonaro could face up to 1-to-3 years in prison if he is convicted. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/world/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-charges-covid.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out the New York Times. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Revolt in Major League Baseball Players Union </strong></p> | |
| <p>Today, The Atlantic and ESPN reported that major league baseball players are moving closer to removing their union’s leadership. </p> | |
| <p>The moves come as many players accuse baseball owners of illegally colluding to reduce their salaries. This offseason, $1 billion was offered less in contracts than in the previous offseason. </p> | |
| <p>The players want the union to change leadership to take a more militant line against the owners. They also want MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark to remove his head of baseball operation, 62-year-old Bruce Meyers, and replace him with 33-year-old Harry Marino. </p> | |
| <p>Marino, a former minor league pitcher turned lawyer, had previously served as the founding executive director of the Advocates for Minor Leaguers, a non-profit group set up to advocate for minor leaguers. The group successfully pushed the MLBPA, which had previously been loath to represent minor leaguers, to bargain on behalf of players. </p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://paydayreport.com/as-housing-crisis-grips-minor-league-baseball-non-union-players-win-victories-through-organizing/" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Read Payday’s 2021 interview with Marino)</a></p> | |
| <p>In 2022, Marino joined the MLBPA staff and negotiated the first-ever collective bargaining agreement on behalf of minor league players. However, after disagreements with Clark and Meyer, Marino left the union in July 2023. </p> | |
| <p>Now, a majority of player representatives are calling on the MLBPA to replace Clark’s deputy Meyer with Marino. They are also calling for the union’s budget to be audited. </p> | |
| <p>However, Clark and Meyer, who are closely aligned with agent Scott Boras, are fighting back and attacking the rank-and-file revolt in the union. Marino, though, has come out swinging. </p> | |
| <p>“The players who sought me out want a union that represents the will of the majority,” <a target="_blank" href="https://theathletic.com/5353993/2024/03/19/scott-boras-mlbpa-tony-clark-coup/?access_token=2655884" rel="noreferrer noopener">said Marino in a statement to the Athletic.</a> “Scott Boras is rich because he makes — or used to make — the richest players in the game richer. That he is running to the defense of Tony Clark and Bruce Meyer this morning is genuinely alarming.”</p> | |
| <p>Now, both Meyer and Tony Clark may be pushed out in the rank-and-file revolt. From the Athletic: </p> | |
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| <p>The discord comes as the overall down winter for free agents has banded together some agents and players who have long been unhappy with the union, but had never arrived at the point of action before this year’s market downturn.</p> | |
| <p>As the MLBPA and the player and agent communities remain in a state of limbo, it was becoming increasingly clear Tuesday that a middle-ground scenario where Clark stays as the boss and works side-by-side with Marino is unlikely, according to people briefed on the matter. Both Clark and Meyer grew to greatly distrust Marino in the time they worked together. A scenario where Clark stays and Meyer exits without Marino assuming a prominent role in the union did not appear likely either. Meyer and a union spokesperson declined to comment Tuesday.</p> | |
| <p>The politics underlying the turmoil are sprawling. Many player agents, including some who are now supportive of Marino, have long perceived Clark and Meyer to show favoritism to Boras, the most powerful agent in the game. Boras, Clark, and Meyer have always denied an improper relationship.</p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://theathletic.com/5353993/2024/03/19/scott-boras-mlbpa-tony-clark-coup/?access_token=2655884" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out the Athletic. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>4,000 Saskatchewan Teachers Strike; Potentially Cancel Basketball Championships</strong></p> | |
| <p>Finally, over 4,000 Saskatchewan teachers have shut down schools throughout the Canadian province. The strike is even threatening to shut down the provincewide basketball championship series HOOPLA, where universities for scholarships scout many seniors. </p> | |
| <p>Administrators are trying to turn parents against the teachers for shutting down HOOPLA. </p> | |
| <p>However, the union is saying that they will allow the basketball championship to go on if the province’s education ministry agrees to binding arbitration. </p> | |
| <p>“If the government agreed to binding arbitration for classroom complexity or provided their bargaining team with the mandate that included classroom complexity, we could return to the table to negotiate an agreement,” Saskatchewan Teachers Federation president Samantha Becotte told the CBC. </p> | |
| <p>Despite the negative publicity against the teachers union, it says it will stand firm on its demands. </p> | |
| <p>“There is a concern about public perception of these actions, but our hope is that the public recognizes the fight that teachers are having to get this government to make long-term commitments to public education. It shouldn’t be this hard,” <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/events-in-peril-sask-teachers-strike-1.7147092" rel="noreferrer noopener">Becotte told the CBC. </a></p> | |
| <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/events-in-peril-sask-teachers-strike-1.7147092" rel="noreferrer noopener">For more, check out the CBC. </a></p> | |
| <p><strong>Alright, yinz, that’s all for today. Keep sending links, story ideas, comments, and cooking recipes to <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </strong></p> | |
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| <title>Help Me Fly to Chattanooga to Cover the UAW Election at Volkswagen</title> | |
| <link>https://paydayreport.com/help-me-fly-to-chattanooga-to-cover-the-uaw-election-at-volkswagen/</link> | |
| <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></dc:creator> | |
| <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:30:54 +0000</pubDate> | |
| <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> | |
| <guid isPermaLink="false">https://paydayreport.com/?p=15562</guid> | |
| <description><![CDATA[Earlier today, the UAW announced that they had filed for a union election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga with over 70%. The union lost twice in...]]></description> | |
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