!labormovement
@lemmygrad.mlhttps://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/to-whom-go-the-spoils
Don't be naive about the path to a four day work week.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/bidens-uaw-rally-exposes-the-bankruptcy-of-trumps-populism.html
Biden walking the picket line while Trump addresses a nonunion auto plant perfectly illustrates their parties’ distinct approaches to labor issues.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/the-strikes-are-working.html
From Hollywood to Detroit, unions are telling a story that Americans need to hear.
https://socialistcall.com/2023/09/20/no-reform-caucus-no-uaw-strike/
UAW members are on strike today because four years ago a small group of activists founded a reform caucus.
https://workerorganizing.org/starbucks-howard-schultz-just-learned-that-union-busting-doesnt-pay-7186/
Starbucks workers built a movement capable of taking on a billion dollar corporation. Here’s how.
https://truthout.org/articles/most-voters-support-uaw-and-hollywood-strikes-new-poll-shows/
Republican presidential hopefuls such as Tim Scott and Nikki Haley have been outspoken in their hostility toward unions.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/21/auto-strike-elon-musk-tesla
The carmaker is now US labor’s most important target. If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zn5y/google-flat-out-refuses-to-bargain-with-workers-prompting-youtube-music-strike
In an email obtained by Motherboard, Google tells YouTube Music workers it will "not be participating in collective bargaining."
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/steven-rattners-not-afraid-of-work-from-home-hes-afraid-of-worker-power/
American workers have just started getting the barest minimum of a few lucky breaks. But that is terrifying to Rattner and his fellow moguls, so they need some sort of rational argument for why these bare scraps of power are actually bad for everyone.
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/whose-fault-is-it
Unifying around the class war is an enormous opportunity for the Democratic Party