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On this day in 1898, the Battle of Virden began when armed members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) surrounded a train full of strikebreakers and exchanged fire with company guards. 13 people were killed, dozens more wounded.

After a local chapter of the UMW began striking at a mine in Virden, Illinois, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company hired black strikebreakers from Birmingham, Alabama and shipped them to Virden by train.

The company hired armed detectives or security guards to accompany the strikebreakers, and an armed conflict broke out when armed miners surrounded the train as it arrived in town. A total of four detectives and seven striking mine workers were killed, with five guards, thirty miners, and an unrecorded number of strikebreakers wounded.

After this incident, Illinois Governor John Tanner ordered the National Guard to prevent any more strikebreakers from coming into the state by force. The next month, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company relented and allowed the unionization of its workers.

"When the last call comes for me to take my final rest, will the miners see that I get a resting place in the same clay that shelters the miners who gave up their lives on the hills of Virden, Illinois...They are responsible for Illinois being the best organized labor state in America."

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!labour@hexbear.net is a union / labour organizing specific comm.

Any syndicalist comrades who want to work with me on this comm are also welcome. DM me and we’ll figure it out.

Hexers, what kind of content / resources do you want to see in c/labour? I'm thinking guides, news, pro-union art, propaganda, and memes.

Let's make one big comm for one big union.

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feel like I'm encounterimg tip requests with increasing frequency, but not jazzed about the prospect of adding a 20% charge at every point of sale.

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The planemaker said the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers unit representing the workers had failed to bargain in good faith during the four-week work stoppage.

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I'm not sure how much detail to give, I don't think anyone involved or in my town browses this website, but I don't want to give any specifics in case someone does a search and this shows up. Using an alt so I this won't be tied to my normal account. I'm probably posting more details than I should, so If you think I should delete something specific let me know.

First off: To anyone thinking of unionizing in the US, and are unsure of where to start, I recommend contacting EWOC. We had followed the typical guidelines of union formation: Stay secret and form an organizing committee from people representing as many areas of the store as you can (we got a signal chat and got consent from everyone before adding new people), map the store and figure out who we should absolutely not talk to, and then gauge support of the unionizing idea by having discreet convos with your coworkers as you feel comfortable, etc.

In our case we had trouble contacting unions, and got no repsonse from a lot of them. EWOC responded immediately and we got assigned a contact who helped us along with good advice and encouragement, and helped us settle on who to go with. They had just unionized an amazon warehouse they worked at, and they helped a lot when we had spent weeks getting frustrated with the lack of any response from unions.

When the time came to choose a union, it came down to a couple choices: UFCW and CWA. CWA doesn't typically unionize our type of workplace but they are branching out, and we've heard mixed things about UFCW so we were hesitant about them. Our contact at EWOC is a socialist and informed us that CWA has been spamming pro-biden/harris ads, while their UFCW local has refused to endorse because of the ongoing genocide. So that made things simple. UFCW it is.

I've worked at a local co-op for almost a decade. I started there thinking "aha! A co-op! This place will be much better than corporate!" and there are a lot of good things about it, but it was one of those co-ops formed by hippies way back when and who basically wanted natural foods and other hokum that tends to go along with that stuff. Basically a community owned whole foods type store. One of the cool things about it was that they were officially strongly pro LGBTQ and it was one of the founding values.

But it's a community co-op, not a workers co-op. Officially democratically run by the member-owners, but absolutely no democratic principles at play when it comes to managing the workforce, and over the years it's become obvious to me and a lot of other employees about how poorly managed it is. Lots of safety issues get ignored until someone gets hurt and the co-op is financially liable, lots of homophobic incidents get swept under the rug, managers are basically unaccountable to anyone underneath them unless they flagrantly violate labor law, etc. Your experience can be a good one if your manager likes you, if you are one of the favorites, but if not they can get away with almost anything and treat you like absolute shit.

Lately our general manager has been acting like a corrupt tyrant and their policies have caused numerous injuries and wide swaths of people to be put on disciplinary action for speaking up about working conditions, shockingly incompetent mismanagement, and transphobia in the workplace.

Upper management is tired of our complaints and has decided to crack down hard over the past few months for reasons detailed in the spoiler, and that has involved under-staffing the store to a dangerous degree and numerous injuries.

A lot us are fed up with it to the point that we are ready to burn the place to the ground, but since so many of the staff are fed up we have taken the more constructive path and started a union drive. We've been trying to keep it as secret as possible, but it becomes harder to maintain a lot of secrecy as you talk to more people. So management knows something is up, but not the extent of support.

There was one person from the organizing committee who was talking up the union and was getting people on board, and they just got fired for taking a long planned vacation. It’s all shady and most likely an unfair labor practice, but they aren’t pursuing action at this time. I wish they would, but they understandably want to just enjoy they time off at the moment. But they were friends with a small local online news reporter, and I guess the reporter decided it was time to publish news about the union because it relates to other drama involving the board of directors that has been making news here.

We really didn't want news of the union reported, and told them so, because with the way they've treated us this past year we were expecting them to go overboard with punishment and threats and didn't want to risk that bullshit yet, but management has taken the opposite approach and are now love-bombing us, LMAO.

Who knows how long it will last until they hire a union buster or something, and revert back to to making shit up to get us in trouble for, but since the news of a union drive is public they can't do anything flagrantly illegal without risk of the union we are working with hitting them with unfair labor practice charges, and since many of us have ongoing L&I claims, they can't retaliate without making it look like they are punishing us for being injured.

They are still in the dark about most of it, so we are sticking to our plan, but now we have the article to allow us to have conversations about the idea of a union with more people. It wasn't what we wanted, but it's going to work out. In the meantime we get the free pizza treatment.

long back storyThis year we had a trans employee suddenly quit. They were competent and hard working, and a generally awesome human being, and their departure was a shock to everyone who worked with them. Turns out their department manager wrote some ignorant stuff about trans issues on social media and the employee wanted to talk it over with them, and HR basically told them to stop wasting everyone’s time. So they rightfully quit and stormed out the door.

They also weren't the first trans person suddenly quit. There have been problems with misgendering among staff, and it just seems older people have a hard time with it. Not always something egregious, but when it happens all the time it makes it a hostile place to work for trans people, and a lot of us are pissed off about it and the lack of appropriate response from HR and management.

There was also a recent local incident somewhere else that involved an older woman freaking out about a trans employee in a women’s only space. The lady was kicked out of the space, and so she raised a big stink and started a lawsuit about it.

All of that drew a response from the mayor defending the trans person, which in turn brought in attention from fascists nationwide who have been coming to town off and on to protest town meetings and such and there are now lawsuits targeting the mayor and a bunch of other bullshit, and that's been a whole fucking thing for the past year or so. A lot of this stuff made the local news. If you live near the area and follow the news for these issues, it might sound famliar.

The fascist clown show that’s been coming to town is why we've been unwilling to let all the transphobic bullshit slide anymore: it's very clearly become a staff safety issue. But any time people start bringing up the problem with HR, the response from management is either to roll their eyes and tell us to fuck off, or to make everyone watch a training video so we'll stop complaining.

So, after the trans employee quit a few other employees, who had a problem with how everything was handled, spoke at the next board meeting to bring it to attention. Several board members never heard about this before. The GM said confidentiality issues were the reason. The GM is supposed to do reports, but why would they include antything that makes them look bad when they don't have to? In their reports employees leaving abruptly over issues of transphone is dismissed as "typical spring turnover".

We had recently elected a board member who was responsive to these issues, and basically was one of the first board members to have concerns for how the staff are treated. So after this meeting where it was brought up, the board set up a committee to work on these issues, but the General Manager was clearly fuming or panicking behind the scenes. On of the things the GM did last year was to lower the annual cost of living adjustment for everyone while giving themselves $10k raise, so they obviously don't want any attention drawn to how they manage the store.

A couple months later a surprise board meeting was called and the board member who raised concerns bout staff treatment and oversight of the GM was kicked off the board. A board member sympathetic to the GM claimed that people, including a couple employees who spoke at the previous meeting, were coached by the board member who was kicked out. One of the workers who spoke about transphobia and the board member have worked together on political projects before, and I think this is where the idea that they were "being coached" came from.

The official reason stated for the removal was that our GM felt "threatened" by their behavior, but no specific details can be given because of “confidentiality issues”. jagoff Since that board member was member of protected class, and their removal a flagrant violation of our bylaws, a boycott has recently been started.

On top of that, when two new board members who started just recently, and who are BIPOC, they were basically asked by the current board if they still want to join, which is incredibly inappropriate. hitler-detector

On top of all that drama, we have been having an extremely busy year at the store and management has been ordered to cut labor costs to the bone. We have been doing record sales, and they have been unwilling to entertain the idea of hiring more people to keep staffing levels appropriate. Some managers have been trying to convince upper management that this is crazy, with no luck. This has made an already not great safety situation worse, and has resulted in a lot of injuries and several L&I claims. It makes no sense to anyone. We don't have shareholders trying to squeeze us for profits, so wtf is going on? Well, we have an idea, but more on that later.

The response to all the injuries from management has been to post charts encouraging people to stretch. bean

One of the workers who talked to the board when the transphobia was brought up is in a small department. It's been doing record numbers all year, and shortly after the board meeting they attended this worker started having their schedule fucked with and seemed to be targetted for harassment from management.

Then around the time of the surprise removal of the board member who actually gave a fuck about the employees, the whole small department was written up. Since the person who attended the meeting about transphobia had previously talked to HR about misgendering issues from their boss, I think they didn't want the heat of targeting them specifically, and so wrote up the whole department, because they've been making noises about staffing levels, safety issues, and mismanagement from their boss for a long time. The communications around resolving those issues was cited as "toxic" and that was the excuse given for the department being punished. No specific examples of this toxicity were given, of course.

The last several months have felt like a witchhunt to find exuses to fire the employee who talked to the board, and among other things has had their schedule fucked with as a form of harassment. Resulting in days where they, and others on the team, had 4hrs to do 8hrs of work. Bullshit like that.

I am pretty certain that the GM leaned on the store manager to have the employee who attending the board meeting targeted for harasment and removal. Something they are not allowed to do, but they clearly don’t give a fuck and will abuse their power as they please.

Not only was there misgendering and schedule fuckery, but also unsafe working conditions like the boss leaving knives in strange places, people almost being crushed by a pallet because the boss wasn't paying attention, food safety issues from the boss storing things incorrectly, letting an overwhelming amount of work pile up because the boss was fucking around on the computer instead of working, rotation issues caused by the boss, etc. So all of the complaints from employees who work under them has been clearly pissing them off and they've been steweing about it, so when they were given the green light to put everyone in their place, of course they have been enjoying fucking with everyone and throwing their weight around to make everything suck.

A couple members of that department have since been injured and are on light duty from trying to work under those conditions, and the department has been relying on poorly trained subs to keep it running for the past few months and its basically been going off the rails. It's hard to fire people who are on L&I claims, so everyone was kept on disciplinary action even after the injuries, because I guess they were hoping to fire them after they got off light duty.

But due to “rumors” and union talk, and a new HR hire realizing the obvious liability issues involved, they recently did a 180 and said basically “mulligan, forget it ever happened”. The team is no longer in trouble. LOL

So why has the general manager been acting like this? The board member who got kicked off also suggested that the board should have some actual oversight over the General Manager, and noticed a discrepancy in the financial report the GM had submitted to the board. Rumor has it that the GM wrongfully terminated a former HR person, the one person who knows labor laws, and the co-op just lost a lawsuit and had to pay out a six figure settlement. We would like to find a public record of the case, but if it was settled there may not be any public details.

We think they are paying for the lawsuit by under-staffing us while the store has been doing record numbers.

If it's not that, then something equally shady has occured, and the GM fucked our finances and is trying to cover their ass.

If we are profitable we get a certain percentage of those profits as a bonus, but they've floated hints there won't be one this year, and if we don't get one, or it's pathetically small, they are almost certainly going to blame the boycott, even though it's made a tiny dent in the finances of a record year. They've been throwing people on disciplinary action at a drop of the hat, and encourage people to spy on each other for that reason, and we think they plan to limit the bonus (if there is one) to a few favorites or people who aren't currently in trouble. Seems like a quarter of the store is either injured or on some kind of disciplinary action right now because of this nonsense. Amazingly, wildly irresponsible and corrupt behavior.

This is a heavily unionized town with a strong majority of democrat to far left demographic. If they add union busting to the list of egregious behavior along with racism and transphobia, they are cooked. There is now also pressure for them to drop Israeli products because of the genocide, so that's something else they have to deal with.

We are absolutely going to win this thing and inshallah we’ll take down the people responsible for all this shit. I am doing everything in my power to make them suffer for it.

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Not that its relevant anymore, but its a banger headline from fair and interesting article meow-floppy

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Hundreds of workers at the Samsung electronics factory in India’s Tamil Nadu state staged roadblocks and a sit-in on Monday, September 30 as their strike entered its fourth week. Thousands of cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from across Tamil Nadu also joined the call of the Samsung workers and risked arrest and police repression.

According to the news reports, over 900 striking workers were detained by the police in the Kanchipuram district. The police also detained the state president of the Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU), A Soundararajan. They were released later that evening.

Over 1,300 workers of Samsung electronics factory in Sriperumbudur, part of the Kanchipuram district near Chennai have been on strike since September 9 under the leadership of newly formed Samsung India Workers’ Union (SIWU) demanding recognition of their union, a salary increase, an end of discrimination, and better working conditions at the factory.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30176676

Amazon‎ .com has been accused by a U.S. labor board of illegally refusing to bargain with a union representing drivers employed by a contractor, the agency announced on Wednesday.

The complaint from the National Labor Relations Board claims that Amazon is a so-called "joint employer" of drivers employed by the contractor, Battle Tested Strategies (BTS), and used a series of illegal tactics to discourage union activities at a facility in Palmdale, California.

BTS drivers voted to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union last year, becoming the first Amazon delivery contractors to unionize.

The NLRB in the complaint, which was issued on Monday, said Amazon broke the law by terminating its contract with BTS after the drivers unionized without first bargaining with the Teamsters.

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“Dating back to World War 1, the ILA was always proud to note that ‘ILA Also Means Love America’ when it came to its “No Strike Pledge” in handling U.S. military cargo at all its ports,” said ILA President Harold Daggett, who served in the U.S. Navy and saw combat duty during the Vietnam War. “We continue our pledge to never let our brave American troops down for their valour and service and we will proudly continue to work all military shipments beyond October 1st, even if we are engaged in a strike.”

The ILA’s Military Consultant, Gen. (Ret.) Tim McHale, weighed in on the ILA’s “No Strike Pledge” for U.S. Military cargo: “The U.S. Government representatives I have been engaging with are very happy and satisfied with the ILA who have always been there in tough situations, and always successfully accomplished the mission. Our U.S. Military knows that the ILA will conduct military load out operations even if there is a strike by ILA.”

critical support to their strike and all, but example of international solidarity this aint

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I've seen a few posts recently expressing frustration with neurotypical people and the secret implications an interaction can have. This might be obvious to a lot of people but I've been trying to figure out how I can be useful to others.

Just got out of an "attendance discussion" (quotes because it was scheduled electronically with that title) because i had a week off from covid (tested and documented) after being injured and having my compo claim accepted.

I brought a notebook with a folder in it and a pen. I wrote down the date and time of the meeting and the people present.

Just presenting that you're keeping a record of things is enough to change the entire dynamic between you and a supervisor. Unless you're being managed by the owner of a small company your supervisor has a supervisor and so on. When you show them that you are taking notes you are also showing them that you would have more credibility in a dispute that goes above their head.

Even if you're the dishwasher's assistant and you bring out a ratty looking notepad and scrawl something in it when your boss calls you into the office for being late. "Arrived 2:07pm for afternoon dish shift, dishpit empty, meeting with dylan"

I don't want to ramble too much but beyond this specific scenario of being in trouble you can use it to empower yourself at work. Writing down every day that you work and the times you show up and leave can help you defend a shorted paycheque or let you fudge the numbers a bit and go home early without approval because you keep a record "it says i left at 10pm bro I don't remember leaving early"

Use your phone if you want but older people will not respect your notes as much because they perceive electronic records to be more susceptible to manipulation than pencil on paper because idk. Better than no record, though. Plus when someone asks what you're doing in your phone you can say oh I'm just writing something down.

That's the post thanks

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In a state without a wage floor of its own, allowing employers to default to the federal wage floor of $7.25 per hour, ADOC collects 40 percent of the inmates’ gross paycheck. ADOC also deducts fees from the inmates’ paychecks to pay for transporting inmates between the prisons where they live and the “free world” jobs where they work, as well as washing their uniforms.

ADOC calls the whole scheme “convict leasing.” But given inmates’ inability to quit when they want to without repercussions behind bars, the system is closer to involuntary servitude — i.e., slavery.

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Workers had sought a 40 percent wage rise, the restoration of a defined-benefit pension plan axed in 2014, and a stronger guarantee that future production would not be moved out of the Seattle region.

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Tens of thousands of disabled people in the United States are paid less than the federal minimum wage — with some workers making as little as 25 cents per hour.

These workers, most of whom have intellectual and developmental disabilities, are part of an arcane government program that is supposed to prepare them for higher-paying jobs in the community. But a Washington Post investigation has found that many disabled workers are paid low wages for years under a tangled bureaucracy that lacks accountability and oversight.

Jaime Muniz, 33, who has autism, was recently paid about $1.22 for every hour he spent at Pathways to Independence in Kearny, N.J., the facility where he has been working for 11 years. His tasks include sorting wire clothing hangers and unloading heavy boxes.

“I try to do better, and I’m not moving on,” Muniz said. “I don’t really know why.”

About 40,000 disabled people like Muniz work under the program, which was enacted in 1938 to provide jobs for injured veterans. Today, nearly 800 facilities in 37 states participate in what has become known as “14(c)” — a reference to Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which allows employers to apply for a certificate and legally pay disabled workers less than the $7.25 federal minimum wage.

At Pathways, where Muniz works, no workers have transitioned out of the program since 2020, said Alvin Cox, the executive director of the facility.

“Community integrated employment is not for everyone, but everyone should have the opportunity to try and experience the dignity of work,” Cox said. “These individuals need support and guidance to do the work that they’re doing.”

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A 2023 report from the Government Accountability Office surveyed wage data from 2019 to 2021 and found that workers were typically making about $3.50 per hour, compared with a federal minimum wage of $7.25. About 12 percent made hourly wages of less than a dollar.

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The US government didn’t like that Jagan was a Marxist — it thought he would be another Fidel Castro, and it wanted to stop him at any cost. Usually folks in the left-labor movement think of general strikes as a positive thing, but in this case, a general strike secretly funded by the CIA, with US unions distributing the funds, undermined a left-wing government.

Similarly, in early-’70s Chile, Salvador Allende was in power. He was a Marxist, democratically elected, and believed in creating socialism through democracy — so he was seen as especially dangerous to anti-communists in the United States and in Latin America, because they relied on the trope that all communists were authoritarian dictators. The [Richard] Nixon administration wanted to create economic chaos in Chile, and part of that was achieved through a series of big strikes in industries including copper mining and trucking. These strikes also received funding, support, and training from the AFL-CIO, with many of the resources originating with the CIA. Those strikes were used as a pretext for the Chilean military under Augusto Pinochet to stage a coup in 1973 and overthrow Allende.

would be nice to read citations on this (of links between afl and striking chileans)

anyway la jacobina duality strikes again

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John Maclean, born on this day in 1879, was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary Marxist, sometimes referred to as "Scotland's Lenin". His Marxist evening-classes produced many of the activists who became instrumental in the Clyde revolts during and after WWI. MacLean was appointed both an Honorary President of the first Congress of Soviets and Soviet Consul to Scotland in recognition of his consistent socialist position on the imperialist war and his tireless work in support of the Bolshevik revolution.

Maclean's revolutionary politics were well-known, and in 1915, he was arrested under the Defence of the Realm Act and fired from his job as a primary school teacher. As a consequence, he became a full-time Marxist lecturer and organizer, educating other Glaswegian workers in Marxist theory.

Maclean supported Irish independence on an anti-imperialist basis, describing the Irish War of Independence as "The Irish fight for freedom" and even condoning the assassination of a magistrate, Alan Bell. He saw the war in Ireland as strengthening the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, arguing that "Irish Sinn Féiners, who make no profession of socialism or communism...are doing more to help Russia and the revolution than all we professed Marxian Bolsheviks in Britain".

MacLean was at odds with much of the British left and dismissive of the newly-formed Communist Party of Great Britain. He had already turned his back on economism and the syndicalism favoured by the Clyde Workers’ Committee, had recognised the nature of British imperialism and come to the conclusion that revolution could only come about through the destruction of the British Empire.

Maclean was also noted for his outspoken opposition to World War I, and, in 1918, he was arrested for sedition. During the trial, Maclean gave the now legendary "speech from the dock", expounding on his position. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, but was released after the November armistice.

In captivity, Maclean had been on hunger strike, and prolonged force-feeding had permanently affected his health. He collapsed during a speech and died of pneumonia, aged forty-four.

"I have taken up unconstitutional action at this time because of the abnormal circumstances and because precedent has been given by the British government. I am a socialist, and have been fighting and will fight for an absolute reconstruction of society for the benefit of all. I am proud of my conduct. I have squared my conduct with my intellect, and if everyone had done so this war would not have taken place...

...I appeal exclusively to [the working class] because they and they only can bring about the time when the whole world will be in one brotherhood, on a sound economic foundation. That, and that alone, can be the means of bringing about a re-organisation of society. That can only be obtained when the people of the world get the world, and retain the world." -

--John MacLean, from the "Dock Speech"

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The core organizing group is deciding who to organize with, and the main consideration is UFCW.

Good or no? Any other unions we should consider?

We're an independent retail store

All managers are bastards. Fuckers are causing injuries with malicious management tactics.

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