Not enough folks are connecting the attacks on labor organizing over the last 50 years to the moment we find ourselves in.
Labor is now our ONLY organizing asset that still has power & possibility of turning this ship in a different direction
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Didn’t that one large union refuse to back Harris ?
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tell that to the afl-cio
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Labor unions supported Trump. That was something effed up.
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#JoinAUnion
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And IQ45 has undermined the NLRB. A national strike may be the only way.
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Then we're truly fucked. Labor are lost. They're complicit, no less beholden to their donors than the LNP. They're also trapped by a Byzantine party organisation which is dominated by the hard right filth of the SDA.
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Not being a member of the 1%, unions are we the people’s only chance of achieving social and economic stability and job security.
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The only group still on the side of the people. Every other institution has failed us profoundly.
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we still are operating an arsenal of assets, and largely blind to it
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NLRB is law and it always will be. They want to tie us up in court. Meanwhile, everyone is getting paid. The incompetence is astounding.
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Perhaps we need to constantly remind ourselves of something. Do you remember, boomers? And those of you who are younger, try asking your parents and grandparents while they are still alive...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99jM...
Joan Baez - Joe Hill | WOODSTOCK 1969
YouTube video by Greg The Egg
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Bush Jr started the huge push against labor unions.
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Half of union members voted for this. UNION membership used to mean something
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Unfortunately the present Labour government has no intention of changing direction. Our only hope is for “your party “ to win the next election
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We literally only need 3% of the population to enact a general strike to bring the entire economy to its knees. And their precious money is literally all the oligarchs care about. They will do anything to keep you afraid and separate. Remember that. Use that.
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I think there will be someone out there he pushes just a little too far!!!
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And it’s Silent Sam.
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Sigh…
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As an IBEW member I'm willing to step up when they come for us
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The afl-cio is corrupt. Dig it up and expose it. It's not so much the members.
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AI: enter stage right. Labour: exit stage left.
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I've maintained for a while that the US left had only really begun to recover from the red scares and the Cold War, around 2020.
I could've wished for it to have happened in 2010 instead, but I do think more and more people are coming to that realization.
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Co-opting, corrupting, and stopping unions has always been a primary objective of capitalists. They spend billions creating and maintaining the neoliberal narrative to ensure we never unite against them.
We can do better than capitalism.
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Maybe before the election. Too late now though.
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The Fifth Circuit has ruled the NLRB to be unconstitutional, therefore diminishing the unions' abilities.
A Federal Appellate Court Finds the NLRB to Be Unconstitutional
And just like that, it frees Elon Musk—and any fellow employers—to violate whatever rights their workers thought they enjoyed.
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/laughs in Shawn Fain
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Everyone with a job should call out on the same day. Tank the businesses!!
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In the US? Not since the hard hat riots. Lmao
US law makes it such that any union that is legally operating is explicitly antagonistic towards the plight of workers generally
They have an inward facing myopia.
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🫡💯
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One assumes you are American "Labor" ;) One thing that strikes me, post 2nd American Revolution, that with the removal of SCOTUS and "Citizens United!"
Wherein the Corporations bought your Democracy.
Thus: A maximum cap of $100 per person per annum.
But in Britain we have the
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It’s not the only one, citizens have a voice
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“As soon as the [fascist coup] broke out the organized town workers replied by calling a general strike... If they had not acted spontaneously and more or less independently it is quite conceivable that Franco would never have been resisted.” - Orwell, Homage to Catalonia. UNIONS MUST CALL IT NOW!
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DERP!
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A coup would work.
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The funny part is when companies realize AI can do the job of CEOs. 🤖😱🤣
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I connect the dots to Biden doing his homework and supporting our collective bargaining rights and unions.
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KOCH, who made his money from Hitler WW2 has been directing Repugnants at the Fed/State/Local level since Reagan! Even your school boards/Koch Demands Obedience and writes REPUG legislation/ Be obedient or get primaried from the right!
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Unfortunately, too many unions supported Trump and his MAGA verse…
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We connected it back then. Nobody listened.
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We are in the culmination of a 50-year war by the right against labor, the environment, voting rights, and civil liberties. They moved slowly and methodically while the rest of us were more concerned about reality TV and the latest iPhone.
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National strike day. Across country. Like covid. Then again. Then for a couple of days
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'bout as strong as a wet noodle, but yes, it is the last remaining asset. Time to toughen up.
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People need to work to survive and we don't already have labor rights to keep us fulfilled and set up in order to strike. We'll just get fired. Protest against both Republicans and the complacent Democrats that are also in on oligarchy, in particular, where the politicians work, is the only way out.
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well said
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#GeneralStrike
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The oligarchs talked too many of you to help them break the unions and break the power they had to confront them.
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just be certain not to confuse Labor organizations with regulatory capture e.g. NEA- absolute trash of an organization that has been pulling the wool over teachers/parents/students for years.
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Labor is important but some of it's cohort worked hard to elect donald. So it's no panacea.
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Do you find it hypocritical to support unions working for higher wages while simultaneously supporting illegal immigration that drives wages down?
