More than 7 *THOUSAND* nurses are on strike in NYC starting TODAY. This sign says it all: If the nurses are outside, something is wrong inside. (via @jessie_eli on tw)1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
STRIKE ALERT: 15 *thousand* nurses in Twin Cities, Twin Ports and Moose Lake have walked off the job today to fight for fair contracts that put patient safety over profits. Solidarity with the MN Nurses Association!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: Video game workers at Raven Software, a subsidiary of Activision-Blizzard, have WON their union election! Let's go!!2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Hilarious that this is seen as shocking news. Who can blame them? All job postings should provide salary listings, period.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: Striking San Francisco International Airport workers held the line and WON! There is power in a union!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Some reminders for Prime Day, where Amazon warehouse workers are currently working mandatory overtime.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
The numbers are in. Strikes have doubled since 2021. Workers are Fed. Up.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Maybe lets...hold billionaires accountable?! Is that such a crazy thought?1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: Strippers United has won approval for a NLRB mail-in union election and the dancers at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar could soon have the first strippers' union in the US since 1996!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Sephora hits $10 billion in sales, gives employees a cookie as a reward. Cookies don't pay the bills - a union contract with enforceable wage increases do.3mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
🚨BREAKING: More than 200 NBC NewsGuild journalists from the TODAY Show, NBC and MSNBC will walk off the job tomorrow. Since NBC wants to keep breaking the law, they get to see firsthand how the newsroom quite literally would not run without its workers. #1u1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Two years ago, NBC News broke the law by reducing union members' salaries without bargaining. After a long fight, NBC NewsGuild members are finally getting the back pay & interest rightfully owed to them. Workers united will never be defeated!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: Wells Fargo workers in Albuquerque, New Mexico made history this morning & won their union election, becoming the first Wells Fargo bank to unionize!4mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
🚨 HISTORIC union victory alert: UNITE HERE Local 26 dining hall workers at Northeastern have won their most lucrative contract ever, raising wages from $9 to $30/hour, quadrupling pensions, increasing the # of full time workers and MORE. There is power in a union!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Teachers at Blue Man School, the Blue Man Group's charter school in NYC, are on STRIKE today! Educators voted to form a union, but the Blue School has refused to recognize it and bargain in good faith.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
STRIKE ALERT 🚨 Thousands of teachers are on strike in Columbus, OH for the 1st time in 47 years. Actions you can take to support: Text SUPPORT to 48744, honor the picket line, and contact the school board here -> https://secure.ngpvan.com/wDlCA5DKrkSkWkTYnBXOEQ2?ms=strikeannounce1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
UNITE HERE hospitality workers at VCU win first contract! LOVE to see these benefits 💪💪💪1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
This UAW member has one of the best explanations for why right to work is a sham that we've seen.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
The news of the first unionized Starbucks in Texas is blowing up on Twitter. Solidarity is contagious, y'all!2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
🔥BREAKING: Amidst their contract fight, the NBC NewsGuild has filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge against NBC for illegally firing union workers yesterday. It's time for news organizations to stop union-busting and defend the workers who make these stations possible.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Starting in six weeks, workers in Connecticut will NO LONGER have to attend anti-union captive audience meetings. They will be able to leave & return to work without fear of discipline or termination. This huge milestone was signed into law yesterday.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Philadelphia Museum of Art union workers are officially on STRIKE today! Never cross a picket line!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Dodger Stadium staff threaten to strike All-Star weekend, win new contract with the raises they deserve. THAT's union power!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
🔥BREAKING: Workers at the REI store in Cleveland, Ohio are organizing with RWDSU and have filed for a union election! The REI union wave continues!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Sending a huge congratulations to @UniteHereLocal2 fast-food workers at SFO Airport, who went on strike last week and WON $5/hr raises, FREE family health care, a $1,500 bonus, union pension and MORE! When we stand together, we WIN together!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
It's looking rough out there. Stay safe, and be mindful of your fellow workers.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Huge victory in California: The signing of AB 2530 protects workers' healthcare if they go on strike!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Just days after the formation of the first Amazon warehouse union, Amazon has banned words like living wage plantation and this is dumb from internal employee communications. Here's the full list:2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
STRIKE ALERT: Journalists at Gannett and Insider across the country are on strike for dignity & respect. DO NOT cross the digital picket line!11mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Few things leave us speechless anymore, but this...there's really no words.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Amazing news out of Ithaca, where the NLRB has ruled Starbucks MUST reopen the store they illegally closed when union-busting!10mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: 🚨 If this strike goes through, it will be the largest in 2022 so far and the largest academic strike in history. 🚨1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Shout out to Sen. Fetterman, who has introduced a bill that would provide workers on strike the ability to qualify for SNAP benefits.9mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: After a LONG fight for a fair contract, Senate cafeteria workers in our nation's capitol have won a contract with a $20 minimum wage and more! There is no limit to the power of collective action!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
STRIKE ALERT: Hundreds of retail workers at Macy's stores in Washington State are going on strike starting on #BlackFriday. You know what that means — don't cross the picket line!5mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Happy Pride! Reminder: It is ILLEGAL under federal law to discriminate against workers on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity & the strongest protections for LBGTQ+ working people is a legally binding, inclusive UNION contract.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
The numbers are in. Strikes have doubled since 2021 and workers are fed up.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
Crumbl cookies job listing asking workers to complete a volunteer trial shift before hiring—aka unpaid labor. Disappointing but unsurprising behavior from a company with child labor law violations in 6 states.7mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
TODAY ONLY: Journalists at the New York Times are ON STRIKE. Don't cross the picket line - this means playing Wordle, too!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
McDonalds was fined just $26k for more than 30 cases of violating child labor law in the Pittsburgh region — yet another example of how woefully outdated our labor laws are.5mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
STRIKE ALERT: *99.5* percent of the HarperCollins union, representing workers at the major book publisher, voted to authorize a strike!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
Meet Chanelle Hardy. She’s 18 and on strike at Jeep in Toledo. She started two months ago at “$15 and change.” She said she has friends making more at Chick-Fil-A. “Growing up, Jeep was like a good job. Get a job at Jeep and you’re set... It’s not the Jeep I thought it was.”6mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Amazon spending $14.2 mil for union-busting consultants is the most HuffPost labor reporter Dave Jamieson has EVER seen. Absolutely disgusting and a clear reason why Amazon workers need a union.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
The power of solidarity: More than 4,500 MFT union educators from Minneapolis Public Schools are on strike and picketed across the city today.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
🚨🚨 Whole Foods has fired workers in 6 states for wearing clothes that say Black Lives Matter & one higher-up said wearing BLM apparel is opening the door for union activity. We're with the NLRB: We say, bring it on. (via Bloomberg)1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
BREAKING: Tender Claws is now the FOURTH video game union in North America. Less than two years ago, that number was zero!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
#PeopleOverPrime is a new campaign from Gen Z for Change. A group TikTok influencers with more than 51 million followers are saying NO to partnerships with Amazon until Amazon meets the demands of Amazon Labor Union. Solidarity!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Did you know journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been on strike for a YEAR as of today? The paper's owners, a multimillion $ family, refuse to meet the union's demands for affordable healthcare. Please support these workers - they have a strike publication and strike fund!7mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
As Election Day comes to a close, some news from another progressive company: Only non-union employees at REI got paid time off today to vote.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
The news of the first unionized Starbucks in Texas is blowing up on Twitter. Solidarity is contagious, y'all!2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
BREAKING: Tender Claws is now the FOURTH video game union in North America. Less than two years ago, that number was zero!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
The power of solidarity: More than 4,500 MFT union educators from Minneapolis Public Schools are on strike and picketed across the city today.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
👏 August alone saw some 4.1 million labor hours lost this year, the most for a single month since August 2000.7mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network production workers have filed a NLRB petition to unionize and demand voluntary recognition!10mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
The power of belonging to a union. Support Delta AFA flight attendants organizing for change!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
DYK that since 2020, more than 2 thousand letter carriers have been attacked or assaulted on the job. Today Congress introduced the Protect Our Letter Carriers Act because enough is enough.1mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Keep this in mind for every article you see touting Bezos's newfound philanthropy. (And never mind they've spent millions to union bust!)1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
SOUTHERN ORGANIZING WIN: Nurses at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas have voted to join the National Nurses Union —the largest private sector hospital in Texas to form a union in state history!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
There's something in the air, and we're not just imagining it: The number of U.S. workplaces where employees have started to organize unions jumped this year to the HIGHEST level we've seen in six years! 🚨🚨🚨1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
🚨STRIKE VOTE ALERT🚨 And to quote Sen. Bernie Sanders, if Boeing can afford to pay its CEO more than $21 million in compensation, it can ABSOLUTELY afford to treat its workers with respect and dignity.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BOOM: A new study from Center for American Progress finds that working class union families hold nearly FOUR TIMES the wealth as non-union, with union families of color seeing the largest gains. 🚨1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
No, FOX News. Tesla wasn't invited to the White House event on tailpipe emissions because they union-bust (although that's another story)...electric cars don't have tailpipes.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
Since the time Barstool President David Portnoy openly violated labor law on Twitter in 2019 by bragging about wanting to crush staff unions is resurfacing, we thought we'd bring back the best way to respond to something like that...1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BOYCOTT ALERT: After management at DC's InterContinental hotel on The Wharf announced top-rated restaurant Moon Rabbit is closing — amidst a union organizing campaign — UNITE HERE Local 25 is calling for a boycott of non-union DC InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) hotels.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/washingtondc
Reminder: A Company Can't Claim to be Progressive in One Breath & Then Union-Bust in Another (👀 REI, Starbucks)2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: VFX workers at Marvel have voted UNANIMOUSLY to unionize with IATSE. The Marvel Cinematic Unionverse is here!8mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
McDonalds was fined just $26k for more than 30 cases of violating child labor law in the Pittsburgh region — yet another example of how woefully outdated our labor laws are.5mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
Breaking: Management at Solid State Books has recognized its staff union, meaning DC is now home to TWO unionized bookstores! (Politics & Prose was the first)1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/washingtondc
Seven THOUSAND nurses are on strike right now in NYC. A must-read, thoughtful PSA from NYSNA: Accessing life-saving healthcare is NOT crossing the picket line. Get mad at why nurses have to be on strike instead.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: This year's AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch Report found the average S&P 500 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 2021 was *324-to-1.* At Amazon , that ratio was a whopping 6,474-to-1.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
WOW, so weird. Such a mystery why people aren't taking as much vacation anymore.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
If you've seen the news about the Union Station Starbucks closing for safety concerns, just know it's not a coincidence. 3 percent of SBs nationwide have unionized yet *30* percent of the stores abruptly closing have active union campaigns.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/washingtondc
Amazon deliberately put the health of their Bessemer, Alabama workers at risk on Friday. Unacceptable, and exactly why these workers need a union! Full release on incident here: https://bit.ly/3iKfJ5g2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
🚨🚨 Whole Foods has fired workers in 6 states for wearing clothes that say Black Lives Matter & one higher-up said wearing BLM apparel is opening the door for union activity. We're with the NLRB: We say, bring it on. (via Bloomberg)1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: After 5 months on strike, U Michigan graduate workers win a contract with 20-80% raises, the largest salary increases in the union's history, living wages for most PhDs, trans & parental care & so much more.8mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
🚨 HUGE win for warehouse workers in New York, and a shame it's taken us this long to get here.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
After management spent months attempting to postpone election results, Union Kitchen is now OFFICIALLY unionized!2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/washingtondc
Solidarity with Blank Street Coffee workers who are organizing with UFCW! If you haven't seen a Blank Street Coffee in your city yet, it's probably coming.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
STRIKE ALERT: *99.5* percent of the HarperCollins union, representing workers at the major book publisher, voted to authorize a one-day strike!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
BREAKING: REI is attempting to block a store's union election in Cleveland, Ohio by making claims that nearly *half* of the *very* eligible store employees shouldn't be a part of the union. Disgusting union busting.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Game idea: Name all of the companies who claim to follow progressive values but won't let their workers unionize for better working conditions!2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
Game idea: Name all of the companies who claim to follow progressive values but won't let their workers unionize for better working conditions.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Reminder: A Company Can't Claim to be Progressive in One Breath & Then Union-Bust in Another (👀 REI, Starbucks)2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/antiwork
UNITE HERE Local 23 workers at American University have won a $20 minimum wage in their new union contract, “bigger raises than they have received in the last 21 years combined.” (!)10mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/washingtondc
Tons of articles going around today fear-mongering about quiet quitting, or the wild concept that employees are not longer going above and beyond in the workplace. Once again, Jorts gets it spot-on.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
On average, unionized women in the workforce earn just as much if not MORE than non-union white men. The best way to close the wage gap? A union contract!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
🚨MASSIVE STRIKE ALERT: 48,000 UAW academic workers, the backbone of the U of California school system, will strike at 8 a.m. PST in their fight for a fair contract and a more equitable UC system. CALIFORNIANS - find a picket line near you! http://fairucnow.org/picket/1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
A huge congratulations to IAFF firefighters who just made union HISTORY in Alexandria with the first collective bargaining agreement for municipal firefighters, marshals & medics in Virginia in 40+ years!!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/nova
#PeopleOverPrime is a new campaign from Gen Z for Change. A group TikTok influencers with more than 51 million followers are saying NO to partnerships with Amazon until Amazon meets the demands of Amazon Labor Union. Solidarity!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
Spotted via @pmiscove on Twitter: One of the best Writers' Guild picket line signs we've seen so far!1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
International labor history made. So much of this landmark agreement is due to the tenacious bargaining efforts between the NWSLPA, USWNTPA and MLSPA.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkersStrikeBack
NEW from the New York Times >> Being in a union allows workers to earn substantially more than similar workers who are not unionized. Just look at those differences in wages!10mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
The AFL-CIO is officially calling for the boycott of four IHG hotels in Washington, D.C. and Virginia in solidarity with hospitality workers unjustly fired for organizing a union. (see: IHG Wharf/Moon Rabbit's sudden closure). Please don't cross the picket line.11mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/washingtondc
Loudon County Transit workers are on STRIKE for a fair contract. While strikes can be an inconvenience to commuters, please direct anger to Keolis North America, an international company with ~$6.7 billion in annual revenue that took over Loudon Transit in 2021 & immediately slashed benefits.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/nova
HUGE shout out to Solid State Books, where employees bargained their first union contract that includes cost of living increases, better staffing ratios, anti-discrimination protections and more!9mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/washingtondc
Apparently it's National Pasta Day...but more importantly, did you know Buitoni pasta is union-made by Steelworkers Local 9555?1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
DYK that unionized construction workers earn *46%* more than non-union peers? Now you do! (via the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades)1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
What Elon Musk has done to Twitter & its employees—the people who MAKE THE PLATFORM POSSIBLE—is a disgrace.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/antiwork
Congressional staffers came together, fought for change in the workplace, and have now made history!2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
The news of the first unionized Starbucks in Texas is blowing up on Twitter. Solidarity is contagious, y'all!2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/union
In a new Gallup poll, confidence in American institutions is universally down in everything EXCEPT organized labor.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Reminder: A Company Can't Claim to be Progressive in One Breath & Then Union-Bust in Another (👀 REI, Starbucks)2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/union
Absolutely Not: REI Redirects Customer Inquiring About Union Busting To Anti-Union Website2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/union
Trader Joe's says they're inclusive, & respectful for all Crew Members. (Direct quote from TJ's website). Yet they've abruptly closed one of their most popular stores days before their union campaign was set to go public and now dozens of its employees are out of work.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Starting in six weeks, workers in Connecticut will NO LONGER have to attend anti-union captive audience meetings. They will be able to leave & return to work without fear of discipline or termination. This huge milestone was signed into law yesterday.2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/union
Starbucks is running away from contract negotiations at unionized stores. Too bad workers have the power to fight back.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
In a new Gallup poll, confidence in American institutions is universally down in everything EXCEPT organized labor.1yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/union
Amazon deliberately put the health of their Bessemer, Alabama workers at risk on Friday. Unacceptable, and exactly why these workers need a union! Full release on incident here: https://bit.ly/3iKfJ5g2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/union
Just days after the formation of the first Amazon warehouse union, Amazon has banned words like living wage plantation and this is dumb from internal employee communications. Here's the full list:2yr ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/WorkReform
Many in NoVA are subscribers of the Post so we wanted to pass this along: Tomorrow the WaPo staff union will walkout for 24 hours. They have been bargaining for a fair contract for *18 months.* There will be a picket at the DC HQ. Don't cross the picket line - no engaging with digital & print!5mo ⋅ AFL_CIO ⋅ r/nova
