Listening to "The Dig" podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacobin-radio/id791564318

This is a great episode talking about modern union organizing, focused on bottom-up/worker driven organizing. One of the challenges today is workers living far apart, not having overlapping social structures, eg co-workers' children going to different schools, etc.

"Socialize before you organize" -- how can we get our co-workers an opportunity for shared social connection?

I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.

Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refresh-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/

Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant Workers

from #WorldOutlook
March 12, 2025

"The following is a statement by the #AmazonLaborUnion – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (#ALU-IBT) Local 1 defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The #ALU represents #Amazon workers at the company’s giant JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

The #ALU statement sets a good example of how the labor movement needs to treat immigrant workers: as fellow workers, as brothers and sisters.

This question has become urgent as the Trump administration has escalated raids, arrests, and deportations of immigrants under the guise of expelling “foreign criminals” from the United States. "

https://world-outlook.com/2025/03/12/amazon-labor-union-defends-immigrant-workers/

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#Teamsters #news

The #ToolbeltGeneration is here FTW

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-many-in-gen-z-are-ditching-college-for-training-in-skilled-trades

WHAT WON’T CHANGE IN TEN YEARS?

Don’t be like me.

Do that, kids.

What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.

Trump signed #executiveorder to dismantle 7 additional federal agencies, including one that oversees #VoiceofAmerica, other govt-funded media outlets around the world. Directed heads of the agencies largely obscure entities that address issues like #labor mediation & #homelessness prevention, #eliminate all functions that are not statutorily #mandated. The leaders should also “reduce the performance of their statutory functions, associated personnel to minimum presence, function required by law.

Please watch (or read or listen to) this: “This 'Next Comes What' podcast episode asks what the point of #protest is, as well as laying out why the #TeslaTakedown movement is such an [effective] form of it. I run through several examples of protest other than demonstrating. (Some of them don’t even require you to show up in public!)...”

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=shEKuhyRpmU?backend_id=2

#resistance #movements #civilRights #civilDisobedience #democracy #1A #demonstrations #activism #mahmoudKhalil #Columbia #science #higherEd #labor #campusProtest #dismantlement #redistribution #plutocracy
from @AndreaPitzer

Be ready, #Utah. You'll need to spread the word and find a signature gatherer in your location or even start gathering signatures yourself.

#utpol has limited the time and expanded the number of locations that need signatures to make it very difficult to put a referendum on the ballot.

This is for public labor unions' ability to collectively bargin in our state.
#labor #laborunion #UEA #Education #PublicEmployees

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/03/14/public-unions-begin-fight-overturn/

At the Tesla “gigafactory” in Grünheide outside Berlin, a number of workers who have gotten sick and provided doctors’ notes explaining their absence from work have received letters telling they have to name exactly what is ailing them and waive doctor-patient confidentiality or they won’t get paid at all. Some of them have been paid “by accident” and told they have to give the money back.

The union IG-Metall says Tesla workers require legal representation 21x more often than average throughout the union nationwide.

https://www.heise.de/news/Tesla-will-kranken-Beschaeftigten-in-Gruenheide-das-Geld-streichen-10316290.html

In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.

2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."

https://www.wecb.fm/in-2019-iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-nearly-6-years-later-all-predictions-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

To all REI members, please use your opportunity to vote for REI's board of directors.

The union for REI workers is asking that we vote "Withhold" against all of the corporate-picked nominees.

https://www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elections

Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future
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For years, Washington, D.C., was insulated from many of the economic forces that decimated many older U.S. cities. Now, as Elon Musk’s mass layoffs shake everything from employment to real estate, the region faces the prospect of decline.
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-dc-trump-musk-federal-government-cutbacks-gloomy-future?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Keep on fighting!

SAG-AFTRA actors' strike set to continue, as union warns of "alarming loopholes" for "AI abuse" in latest proposal

https://www.eurogamer.net/sag-aftra-actors-strike-set-to-continue-as-union-warns-of-alarming-loopholes-for-ai-abuse-in-latest-proposal

This will only become more and more common with unchecked capitalism!

Two Zenless Zone Zero actors lose jobs over AI dispute without notice, finding out alongside players

https://www.eurogamer.net/two-zenless-zone-zero-actors-lose-jobs-over-ai-dispute-without-notice-finding-out-alongside-players

Filipino workers in semiconductors factory declare strike victory…
https://globalvoices.org/2025/03/12/filipino-workers-in-semiconductors-factory-declare-strike-victory/
"#Labor activists in the Philippines saw a major victory after a 74-hour strike of 1,800 workers at Nexperia #Philippines, a #Dutch semiconductors factory. The strike ended in victory on March 8 after the management agreed to increase daily wages and reinstate dismissed #union officials."

Pandemie-Ursprung: Hielt das Kanzleramt BND-Einschätzung zu Corona zurück?

Laut Medienberichten ging der Auslandsgeheimdienst BND in der Pandemie mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit davon aus, dass das Coronavirus seinen Ursprung in einem Labor in China hatte. Doch das Kanzleramt soll die Einschätzung zurückgehalten haben.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bnd-corona-ursprung-wuhan-labor-bundesregierung-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

Starbucks workers at the S. Dale Mabry & Neptune location in Tampa, Florida just won their election to become the 550th union Starbucks store in the United States! #labor #union #unions #unionstrong #WorkersRights #work #workers https://bsky.app/profile/sbworkersunited.org/post/3ljbjab7czc2s

You are a telecom company!

How come your employees can't use your service to do their jobs wherever they are?!

Telecom tells employees they won’t get bonuses if they don’t follow RTO policy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/vodafone-says-it-will-withhold-bonuses-from-employees-who-dont-return-to-office/