🌎 Discussion: Labor, Unions, and Workers' Rights

[blueharvest]

On Labor Day, think of the children working graveyard shifts right under our noses

Instead of trying to protect children, lawmakers are answering the calls of industry to make it easier for them to be exploited.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Lily Adler]

On Labor Day, think of the children working graveyard shifts right under our noses

Instead of trying to protect children, lawmakers are answering the calls of industry to make it easier for them to be exploited.

www.usatoday.com

Governor Huckabee-Sanders signed a bill making it easier for minors to be used for cheap labor because they don't want to pay their parents or guardians a living wage.

 

[Lily Adler]

Should we require federal holidays to be mandatory to the private sector no exceptions. Guarantee workers in the private sector the same days off that pharmacists, banks, post office, and federal workers get?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Labor Day hotel strikes reflect the frustrations of a workforce largely made up of women of color

More than 10,000 workers at 25 U.S. hotels are on strike after choosing Labor Day weekend to amplify their demands for higher pay, fairer workloads and the reversal of COVID-era cuts.

apnews.com

 

[InCali]

Should we require federal holidays to be mandatory to the private sector no exceptions. Guarantee workers in the private sector the same days off that pharmacists, banks, post office, and federal workers get?

No need. Establish publicly owned companies in power, water, and housing production and give those people their holidays. Let's see who wants to work for whom.

 

[squeekness]

On Labor Day, think of the children working graveyard shifts right under our noses

Instead of trying to protect children, lawmakers are answering the calls of industry to make it easier for them to be exploited.

www.usatoday.com

Child labor shouldn't be legal.

 

[Lily Adler]

Child labor shouldn't be legal.

Look at all those workers watching her sign it.

 

[InCali]

Look at all those workers watching her sign it.

Look at all that cheap labor watching her sign it. None of whom will have to work as children.

 

[Lily Adler]

The Intercept (@theintercept.com)

Ryan Grim and David Sirota examine how a memo from 1971 laid the groundwork for enshrining corporate corruption in American politics. https://interc.pt/4g7cEbE

bsky.app

 

[InCali]

I can't believe Joe brought up the Molly Maguires....


My union mentor, who tried to join the Lincoln Battalion Lincoln Battalion - Wikipedia , but was told to go home because he was too young, told me a lot of pretty scary stories along these lines. I won't repeat them, but, uh.... they're pretty gnarly. He later joined the Merchant Marines in WWll and lived to tell of it. He was a machinist at UCLA and we met during our organizing campaign for 4,000 technical workers at the University of California. If you can find it and are interested, he's part of the documentary "The Men Who Sailed the Liberty Ships".

Things were different back then, but maybe not as different as we'd like to think. There are people who have economic power who will do anything to keep it and maintain the control they possess.

 

[blueharvest]

What do working Americans fear more than death? Retirement.

These are the reasons some Americans are more scared of retirement than of getting divorced or fired.

www.usatoday.com

 

[blueharvest]

Labor Day hotel strikes reflect the frustrations of a workforce largely made up of women of color

More than 10,000 workers at 25 U.S. hotels are on strike after choosing Labor Day weekend to amplify their demands for higher pay, fairer workloads and the reversal of COVID-era cuts.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[InCali]

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Well, robots are really expensive. If they break, it costs a ton of money. If a person breaks, you can just have someone cover for them and hire someone else for cheap because you're already paying HR to do that.

 

[squeekness]

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I'm not the least bit surprised.

 

[blueharvest]

More than 17,000 AT&T workers strike over unfair labor practice by company

Strike started on 16 August over firm’s delays in bargaining a new contract since the process began in June

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[InCali]

Dear Kevin,

The answer to your question is that Unions did. You see, for non-exempt employees under the FLSA, they gat paid hourly and if you want them to works after their shift is done, we have this thing called "overtime" and they get paid at least time and a half for that. In my contract with my employer, if they call me and want me to work, it's a 2 hour minimum even if I'm only on the phone for 15 minutes. If they want me to come into work, it's a 4 hour minimum including travel time and both count towards overtime.

Sorry that we're being so unfair to you, but we like to have lives too.

 

[squeekness]

We are not your slaves!!!!!

 

[blueharvest]

Unions Need to Get More Serious About Organizing

Support for unions is at an all time high. How can the labor movement convert that into more power? Investing in organizing.

inequality.org

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Amazon says in a federal lawsuit that the NLRB's structure is unconstitutional

Amazon is challenging the structure of the National Labor Relations Board in a lawsuit that also accuses the agency of improperly influencing the outcome of a union election at a company warehouse more than two years ago.

apnews.com

 

[Teelie]

Amazon desperate to make themselves look worse and avoid unions giving their workers power.