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A thread of what I wrote and podcast interviews in 2021, primarily about labor and union topics. #UnionYes #UnionStrong #1u
1) On Laborlines, a discussion of developments in the labor movement, anchor.fm/john-william-a…
2) A deep dive into research on how union membership impacts white workers’ racial attitudes, for @organizingwork, organizing.work/2021/02/union-…
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 11/17/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/dai…
Rarest mammal in North America found in Colorado garage, ‘looking for a new home’

usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

#EndangeredSpecies #BlackFootedFerrets #restoration
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Another crooked #Union boss was arrested.

Glenn Blicht, President of the Longshoremen Union Local 1964, was arrested for demanding and taking bribes from an employer in exchange for NOT representing Union employee's interests.

#ButNothingsHappening #UnionCorruption
LOL...and once again, THERE ARE TAPES!
Just as a reminder, and to put them in one place, there have been quite a few busts related to corrupt union bosses and officials. Here's the former VP of the UAW who pleaded guilty to corruption:

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Former #UAW VP, Norwood Jewell, pleaded guilty to conspiring with other UAW officials in a conspiracy with Fiat Chrysler execs to make illegal payments to union officials.

#Michigan #UnionCorruption
Here's a previous thread and a little more on when Jewell was originally charged

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1/ .@rexsantus wrote a great piece today in .@VICENews about why the most important strikes of time are illegal.

In my recent book #TEMP, I wrote about what #labor can learn from @Uber: power is more important than law.

news.vice.com/en_us/article/…?
2/ #Uber, when it started, was clearly illegal and its expansion smashed through all the regulations. Just like organized labor did in the 1930s. The industrial unions of the 1930s illegal seized property in a #sitdown strike in #Flint.

3/ When the #UAW shut down that one factory—with only a few hundred workers—all of #GM stopped. Production collapsed from 50,000 cars a month to nearly zero. All of its suppliers stopped as well. The largest corporation in America was brought to its knees.
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