Union Pacific, one of the major freight railroads that successfully fought off union demands for paid sick days for workers during contentious labor negotiations in 2022, reported another year of record earnings Tuesday.
This is what happens when you put a guy that fixed bread prices in charge of transportation.
It is! At least to an extent. This is people already trying to form a union, and the downside is that they are not militant because it isn't actually organized around getting better pay and conditions, but about having an officially protected say in the work chosen by the company (for example).
This includes people demanding a disinvestment from war and war contracting, people demanding BDS (opposing Israeli apartheid), people demanding contracf employees (who are treated like full-time employees but poor compensation and protection) become full employees with benefits.
it would be kind of dope if we had some union coordination here, now that you mention it, I think we could get a good number of people to show up in big cities when needed for actions
It is! At least to an extent. This is people already trying to form a union, and the downside is that they are not militant because it isn't actually organized around getting better pay and conditions, but about having an officially protected say in the work chosen by the company (for example).
This includes people demanding a disinvestment from war and war contracting, people demanding BDS (opposing Israeli apartheid), people demanding contracf employees (who are treated like full-time employees but poor compensation and protection) become full employees with benefits.
tell me where to stand in the houston metroplex and I will put my body in the way
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it would be kind of dope if we had some union coordination here, now that you mention it, I think we could get a good number of people to show up in big cities when needed for actions