Working at the 1st unionized Starbucks, a thread...

THURSDAY: Striking United Mine Workers are continuing to take the fight against WarriorMetCoal from rural Alabama to cities worldwide. Thursday's International Day of Action will see rallies outside of Warrior Met investors in DC, NYC, Boston, Denver, Australia & more. DM for details.

Would be genuinely awesome if Wirecutter Union published a piece rating the best tools for worker organizing 😍💪

Good primer on one of the most important things happening in the US labor movement right now

Today hundreds of our NYTimesGuild members were denied access to their contract talks. Management refused to bargain if they were present. This is unacceptable. It’s time for The New York Times to stop stalling and start bargaining.

New: From Amazon to Hollywood to Chipotle to John Deere to Kellogg's, workers are resisting the ways they say companies steal, strain, and regulate their time bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 'You're only existing to do that job,' an IATSE cameraman told me #Striketober

🤬 I simultaneously can and cannot believe someone would even ask this of their employees. Unpaid overtime is just code for exploitation.

Unionize Amazon
Unionize Tesla
Unionize Starbucks
Unionize Facebook

Give workers more power,
Make the billionaires sweat

#Striketober

#striketober followed by #noworknovember wrapped up by #spankynewcontracember UNION STRONG!! we stand with all the workers striking, now into infinity +1

#Striketober continues! After protracted negotiations, today, AFA-CWA Piedmont Flight Attendants voted 100% to authorize a strike. afacwa.org/flight_attenda… #1u

BREAKING: Nearly 2,000 Local 5 Kaiser Permanente members voted to authorize a strike with 93% YES votes! This vote authorizes our committee to call for a strike if necessary to win a great contract and to secure a bright future for our health care heroes!

PUMPKIN SPICE UNION SOLIDARITY

Solidarity with Netflix workers who are courageously walking off the job today to demand their employer respect trans and non-binary employees and invest in trans and non-binary talent. You can read their demands here: theverge.com/2021/10/18/227…

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in:
1965: 21-to-1
2020: 351-to-1

Combined U.S. Billionaire Wealth:
Pre-Pandemic: $2,900,000,000,000
2021: $4,800,000,000,000

Federal minimum wage:
2009: $7.25
2021: $7.25

Maybe the problem is not expanded unemployment benefits. 🤔

Target has one of the most INTENSE anti-union campaigns out there. Target can absolutely afford hazard pay for their workers. Don't let them get away with anything less than the best for the worker!! 🎯

Amazon unions
Amazon unions
Amazon unions

(are we doing this right?)

Yet another salaried Deere employee has reached out. Here's his comment on the idea of white collar and other employees keeping the plants running through the strike, working under 'new titles.'