This Labor Day, we’re standing in solidarity with the ongoing labor battles and picket lines happening across the country. Here are just a few of the many instances of workers in this country rising up to demand more rights & dignity on the job:
All U.S. Nabisco factories are still on strike. Workers at Nabisco sites in 5 states are protesting cuts to wages, pensions, and overtime pay. #NoContractNoSnacks
Over a thousand @MineWorkers at Warrior Met Coal have been on strike since April 1.
They’re demanding a new, fair contract that restores the wages & benefits they gave up 6 years ago in order to save the coal company from bankruptcy.
Nearly 700 nurses have been on strike at St. Vincent Hospital for over 6 months. It’s the longest nurses’ strike in MA history.
The @MassNurses say that Tenet Healthcare, which owns St. Vincent, has been short-staffing the hospital just to turn a profit.
Amazon workers on Staten Island are taking on the corporate goliath and organizing four NYC warehouses to form @amazonlabor. They’ve already signed up over one thousand workers.
In a huge recent labor victory, workers from Colectivo Coffee won their union election and formed the largest cafe workers union in the United States.
They now enter into negotiations with Colectivo management to bargain for a fair first contract.
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Donald Trump and JD Vance just raised $2 million at a fundraiser hosted by coal executive Joe Craft and fracking billionaire Harold Hamm.
It was the single largest political fundraiser in Oklahoma history.
This is Trump's strategy, fundraisers by and for the super rich. 🧵
2) Joe Craft is the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, a coal executive who has overseen hundreds of labor violations at his company and has an intimate relationship with Trump, with his wife being appointed U.N. Ambassador during Trump’s presidency. eenews.net/articles/coal-…
3) Tomorrow, a Trump fundraiser in Nashville will take place next to the Bitcoin Conference. If you donate $844,600 to the Trump 47 Committee, you get to sit at a table with Trump. If you pay $60,000, you get a photo.
Multiple large unions have now endorsed Kamala Harris, while also expressing concern that her campaign is eying Senator Mark Kelly for VP.
His refusal to support the PRO act, a core goal of the labor movement that would make union organizing easier, is raising alarm.
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2) As John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union and an ally of President Joe Biden, told ABC News, “Why would the Democrats even consider a senator for the vice presidency if the senator doesn't support the PRO Act?” abcnews.go.com/Politics/labor…
3) Richard Bensinger, the former organizing director at the AFL-CIO, the largest labor organization in the U.S., recently posted the following:
An Olympics’ opening ceremony rehearsal "did not go as planned" after dancers raised their fists to protest unequal treatment instead of dancing.
The dancers have now filed a strike notice, and they’re not the only Paris workers on the verge of striking.
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A union representing workers at Paris’ two major airports has filed a strike motion for July 26, the date of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games.
The Force Ouvrière (FO) union represents 11.5% of workers at the Orly and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airports. /2
The union has filed a motion for a one day strike, but that day is the entire opening day of the Paris Olympics.
These vital workers want increased bonus pay for working through the turbulent beginning of the Olympics. /3 connexionfrance.com/news/paris-air…
It’s time to be clear on what Trump, Vance, and the GOP really think about working class people.
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2) When Trump was president, he oversaw a viciously anti-labor administration which stacked the NLRB with corporate lawyers, damaged collective bargaining rights for federal employees, and defended right-to-work laws. thehill.com/regulation/lab…
3) And in the midst of a pandemic, Trump orchestrated the loosening of worker safety regulations, making it easier for bosses to ignore the law. rollcall.com/2020/05/21/afl…
3) Project 2025 would make the private, for-profit version of Medicare the default for all future enrollments in the program. Quality of care would decline significantly, and Medicaid recipients would suffer too, with mandatory benefits being eliminated. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…