Essential Workers for Democracy @EW4Democracy
Essential workers need unions that are accountable to members. General outreach: [email protected]. Press: [email protected]. ew4d.org Joined January 2023-
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Lawsuit against UFCW International in @politico: "Some of UFCW’s 1.2M members have become increasingly incensed at leadership they view as overpaid and inimical to their interests. They point to growing union assets even as membership has declined" subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…
Two big things happened today that are extremely popular: --FTC moved to ban non-competes --Labor Dept moved to expand overtime protections to millions more workers Both reforms happened because of Biden and in spite of Republicans. And both could die before GOP-appointed judges.
The @UAW went from protesting @labornotes and kicking them out and denying them access to pressers to the President holding up the Troublemakers handbook. All because of union reform efforts. Wild.
The @UAW went from protesting @labornotes and kicking them out and denying them access to pressers to the President holding up the Troublemakers handbook. All because of union reform efforts. Wild.
🎊Congratulations to Labor Notes editor @al_bradbury, who won the 2024 Joe Hill award from @LaborHeritage1!! The arts are how "we find our unity, how we remind ourselves of our values, how we sustain ourselves through the hard times," she said. Learn more: laborheritage.org/content.aspx?p…
🎊Congratulations to Labor Notes editor @al_bradbury, who won the 2024 Joe Hill award from @LaborHeritage1!! The arts are how "we find our unity, how we remind ourselves of our values, how we sustain ourselves through the hard times," she said. Learn more: laborheritage.org/content.aspx?p…
@DSAWorkingMass @UFCW @EW4Democracy Iris Scott from Local 1459 Massachusetts is on the lawsuit against UFCW IU. Many members from other states are supporting as well, it was great meeting them. Everywhere we went, we found support and workers from other unions asking how they can start talking about this at theirs
Fain: It's not a CEO that's going to save us. It's not a president that's going to save us. It's not me and it's not you. It's us. It's a united working class is how we're going to win!
Featuring @ShawnFainUAW with a special message for the corporate class
Featuring @ShawnFainUAW with a special message for the corporate class
“My mission from day one was to get rid of the fucking word ‘can’t.’” —Shawn Fain at Labor Notes.
Do you want to build bottom-up buy in on @UAW’s call to align contract for May 1, 2028? Go to bargaintogether.org and fill out the contact form. UAW made the call, and regional AFL-CIO bodies are answering it.
Attorney says the suit aims to give rank and file UFCW members more delegates at the convention, where they’re currently marginalized. If successful, could force many other unions with similar undemocratic systems of representation to reform.
Lawsuit being filed by same law firm that formerly represented TDU and UAWD, explicitly tying the reform movement inside UFCW to those other successful efforts. They’re seeking a fairer system along the lines of “one member, one vote.”
As long as you can keep that north star of union democracy in sight, you're going to be okay.
As long as you can keep that north star of union democracy in sight, you're going to be okay.
Look, our name is essential workers because we aim to bring EVERY. ONE. OF US. Who worked through the pandemic together, no matter the union. Share tactics, organize, REVIVE the labor movement from the ground up.
.@maximillian_alv “We are all living in an active corporate crime scene.” #LaborNotes2024
Historic hours here at Labor Notes convention. UAW win at VW culminates decades of work by dedicated partisans of union democracy and labor militancy. And the 4,500 plus attendees here will spread the winning message far and wide.
Other unions should be inspired by what the UAW is doing but also a little embarrassed. Winning is hard but trying to win is easy, and most unions haven't been trying.
Great info sharing and brainstorming meeting for the MANY workers that represent those who worked during the pandemic happening in our meeting room!
Meeting @EW4Democracy members at @labornotes has given me hope for UFCW. I might be a former member, but UFCW will always have a place in my heart
Good time to repost the argument for one-member-one vote -- direct election of union officers.
Good time to repost the argument for one-member-one vote -- direct election of union officers.
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2K Followers 559 Following News Director/Host, #knprtalk @KNPRnews Nevada Public Radio 88.9FMThe @UAW went from protesting @labornotes and kicking them out and denying them access to pressers to the President holding up the Troublemakers handbook. All because of union reform efforts. Wild.
Shawn Fain: As a young union activist, I had another Bible. It's this book right here called the Troublemakers Handbook from Labor Notes.
This is one of the best articles I’ve read so far that gets at what’s so important about the Labor Notes conference, with quotes from workers about the two signal struggles of the moment: 1) concrete solidarity with Palestinian workers 2) UAW’s historic organizing of the South.
i wrote about labor's coachella for @thenation: thenation.com/article/econom…
This morning, Delta Flight Attendants found out we’re getting a 5% increase, along with all other non-union Delta employees. Management wants us to be grateful, and that’s a problem. Here’s why 🧵
🎊Congratulations to Labor Notes editor @al_bradbury, who won the 2024 Joe Hill award from @LaborHeritage1!! The arts are how "we find our unity, how we remind ourselves of our values, how we sustain ourselves through the hard times," she said. Learn more: laborheritage.org/content.aspx?p…
Thank you Matt! It’s beautiful, and I am so honored!
Autoworkers from USA, Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico, Canada and Chile. Solidarity doesn't have borders!✊️
Let's see your favorite Labor Notes photos! We'll start:
@DSAWorkingMass @UFCW @EW4Democracy Iris Scott from Local 1459 Massachusetts is on the lawsuit against UFCW IU. Many members from other states are supporting as well, it was great meeting them. Everywhere we went, we found support and workers from other unions asking how they can start talking about this at theirs
Fain: We found ourselves facing a new enemy, a new authoritarian threat. But it wasn't some faraway country or some other state. It was right here at home in our workplaces. And that enemy is corporate greed...So today from Chattanooga, TN, to Chicago, IL -- we say HELL NO!
Fain: It's not a CEO that's going to save us. It's not a president that's going to save us. It's not me and it's not you. It's us. It's a united working class is how we're going to win!
Transforming Teamsters Local 135 – with 12,000 members across dozens of industries – is a big project. But 135 members are jumping in and revitalizing their local from the bottom-up, says Local 135 President Dustin Roach in “I’ve Been Elected, Now What?” #LaborNotes2024
French autoworker now speaking,'We suffer from the same problems as you do. We must struggle together and win. Together we can beat the bosses'
Happening now autoworkers from Germany and Brazil are speaking to autoworkers at Labornotes about importance of international solidarity and how we need to work together to protect all of our jobs. Also saying UAW workers have inspired them in their countries.
“Our goal is to drive out fear. To drive out the fear the billionaire class and the corporate class thrive upon. Because they’re afraid and they want us to be divided.” — @ShawnFainUAW, speaking to hundreds of badass troublemakers at the @labornotes conference
Do you want to build bottom-up buy in on @UAW’s call to align contract for May 1, 2028? Go to bargaintogether.org and fill out the contact form. UAW made the call, and regional AFL-CIO bodies are answering it.
.@UAWRegion1 Director @carrolotta accepting the Troublemaker Award on behalf of the @UAW Stand-Up Strikers at @labornotes #LaborNotes2024
USA, Mexican, Brazilian, French autoworkers coming together at @labornotes to organize and scare the hell out of bosses everywhere. This is a movement, not a moment.
As long as you can keep that north star of union democracy in sight, you're going to be okay.
"We are building on the fight that has been going on for decades now. I didn't want to see the next generation of workers have a lower standard of living. We are supposed to be fighting to better the lives of the next generation, not make it worse." @workerUAW
Instead of getting mad at workers for "quiet quitting" or "rage applying" employers should pay their workers a living wage and treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve.
.@maximillian_alv “We are all living in an active corporate crime scene.” #LaborNotes2024
If your job is to talk to working people of all kinds about their lives (in and outside of work) in America today, this is the conclusion you will inevitably draw. I see it *everywhere.* The working class must not and will not go quietly into this deregulated dystopia
.@maximillian_alv “We are all living in an active corporate crime scene.” #LaborNotes2024
Tiers are an abusive system, and I've worked under it. I knew it was a system that couldn't survive, not in Chicago, not I'm America, not for workers. So I got involved to change it. --Candy Brown 551
'How did it(workplace conditions) get this bad, and it's because of tiers.' He continued to speak on how tier systems disproportionately targeted lower senority members who may not know how to enforce their rights @ChrisVoila UAW Factory Zero
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