https://archive.ph/2022.03.28-073505/https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089110574/california-grocery-workers-vote-to-authorize-strike

The possible walkout would involve grocery clerks, meat cutters, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians represented by seven locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Folks are surprised to learn how much private sector unionization California has - I mean it's not much but more than most places in the US other than maybe the Upper Midwest.

    • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I don't know about it for sure, but does anyone know if there are lefty enclaves in the midwest?

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I think most major cities in the midwest have at the very least some lefty-friendly radlib enclaves (and I'm not using radlib as a perjorative here, I mean it in the good sense like the folks who genuinely hate racism). My hometown (>2 million MSA) has a sizable part of town where you could openly be a socialist and most folks would probably be cool with it and you could probably find some like-minded folks. Meanwhile where I live in CA has a pretty solid reactionary base here. So things aren't all black and white. But yeah, if you're talking about a balkanization situation I can't think of a state I'd rather be in than CA.

        If you want to know more about what city/enclave I'm talking about just DM me.